OK. After reading Lyle's book all afternoon and evening. I have decided to give this a shot. Both as a means to kick start an effective lifestyle and to prepare for an upcoming vacation. My wife has agreed to run it with me.
I will be starting this endeavor on Friday morning so this gives me the rest of today and tonight to make sure I have everything I need in place and take any last minute advice, criticism or humorous shots from the peanut gallery.
I weighed in the a.m. at 252 (my scale is 5lbs higher than all others I have been on) but that's the number I will use. I am going to call myself 30% BF all though I would like to believe I am closer to 25%. I may send a current pic to a trusted friend for a better evaluation.
Using these numbers I am shooting for a daily caloric intake of 800 cals. I may adjust this up to no more than 1000 depending on how I get along. The nice thing is, I normally don't like to eat large quanities of food...just poor food choices.
I will supplement as Lyle recommends with 6G of fish oil, Mag, Sodium and Potassium. I will also plan on 1 gallon of water per day. My goal is to run this for 6 weeks. I will incorporate 1 REASONABLE cheat meal per week as I have put myself in a category #3.
I will continue with weight training but will limit cardio (that should be hard lol). Please feel free to add anything I may have missed or bump your gums.