Day -1 - Tomorrow it begins.

Weight: 214
Body Fat: 27%

Last year, I wrote a blog called Fluff to Buff. I challenged my opponent, cheerfully dubbed 'The Enemy' to a 10K foot race. Those of you who know that also know that I kept track of my training and progress in a blog. I really enjoyed both the results of the training and the act of blogging, but training was time consuming and when The Enemy surrendered, the original Fluff to Buff died from neglect and lack of purpose.

No doubt many of you read the original Fluff to Buff. Some of you told me how much you enjoyed reading it. I know that I enjoyed writing it. And so, as you've probably guessed, I'm back with Fluff to Buff 2. I've just finished my last year of law school, in fact, I graduated today. Any law student will tell you that school is bad for your health. I've been particularly bad at staying healthy and now that school is over I intend to shape up.

Taking a cue from Body Break, I'll achieve this through diet and exercise. I'll start things off by plunging into the South Beach Diet. Invented by a cardiologist to help his patients lose weight, this diet promises weight loss of between 8 and 13 pounds in the first two weeks. Impressive, no? We'll see how accurate those claims are in about 2 weeks. I've purchased my materials (various healthy foods, a couple of books and a special scale) and tomorrow the adventure begins.

To weigh myself I have purchased a new scale. This bad boy measures both your weight and your body fat percentage. I took a baseline measurement tonight and found that I'm coming in at 214 pounds with a body fat percentage of 27. My ultimate goal will be a to-be-determined weight and body fat percentage.

For now it is time to go and celebrate, as law students do, by drinking and talking to strangers in bars. Tomorrow you can expect a briefer, hopefully funnier and definitely hungover post.