G'day Mates.

[unamedwookie]

Hi, My Names Alec.

I'm a Nineteen year old Australian living in Canberra.

First some statistics about me

Weight: 134.4 Kg. (around 300lbs)

Height: 1.83m.

Gut: 127cm

Fitness Level:... Well yeah.

So, heres the deal. I'm an active person, Walk a lot, go for runs (not to excessive amounts but I can walk to the local shopping centre or Mall which is a 14km round trip with ease, though don't ask me to run there.) . But having said that I also eat a lot of crap and have fairly bad sleeping pattens. Now three years ago, if someone had ask me why I was overweight I would have said "ow, its my genetics, I have a lot of body fat and all that but I'm actually quite fit". I was deluding myself. Both my parents (who I am living with) went on a strict diet at the end of my eleventh grade, My father lost nearly 50kg in 6 month and is back to the weight he was when he joined the army in 1982. I also started to notice that I had lost some weight. Now I was adamant on joining the army at this point, so I hit the gym with a friend from high school and started to work out. Now we both ran into a problem with the gym. We would be doing exercises and someone would come-up and say we were doing them wrong, and without finding out our training goals they would lecture us on the correct method. With us not knowing any better, we would change our routine and continue. The same thing would then happen again. Someone would tell us we were doing it wrong. It got very confusing and at times a little dangerous ( while sparing with my Friend a Bloke came in and told use we were doing it wrong and offered to show us how to do it. My friend ended up with a bruised shin and I got a bloody lip, because this Guy thought we were actually making contact)

Anyway. I Failed the Army medical test and was told to go away and lose weight. I was faced with a choose. Hit the Gym hard for 9 months or so and try to get into the Army again next year or go to Uni. I chose Uni, figuring I would have 4 or so years to figure out where I wanted to go and get plenty fit.

So thats up to now. sadly, due to me slipping back into bad eating habits I have gotten back to the weight before my 2nd hand dieting. I tried several other programs but found they didn't work for me ( I seem to be unable to count calories) so I'm going for the Palio Diet, follows my beliefs when it comes to food. But on a positive note, Thanks to reading nearly every article on nerd fitness and some other parts of programs I've done before, I have created a exercise program for myself that I really enjoy and works for me.

I have also had time to think about where I want to go in Life. Still want to join the Army, but I'm in no rush to do it. I'm planing to enjoy the last two and a bit years I have in Uni. So its time to get Fit, Clean up my Diet and sleep properly when possible.

Incidentally I actually started my Program today and my friend got back from infantry training recently and is training with me, so I really don't have any excuse to stop, because he's learnt how to yell like a Army Fitness instructor.

Final goals by the end of 2014.

Weight: Between 93kg and 100kg.

Able to Run 5km/3miles in under 22min

Complete the Army Basic Fitness test ( this has recently been changed so not sure what it will be by then)

Complete Salmon ladder (Stephen Amell in arrow, the pull-up ladder thing)

So in closing, this is where I'm up to. I am looking forward to sharing my experiences and with all you rebels and listening to your ones.

Cheers

Alec

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

Welcome to the rebellion. I'm right there with you, I'm working on being a chaplain in the Texas National Guard (its the Army, but a reserve force for the individual States). Those are admirable goals, realistic, and with a good motivation. We are a supportive group, but the only thing we can't help with is motivation, which you seem to have. There are a lot of paleo people here, this is a good place to learn about the diet. Glad to have you.

[Laureleye]

Sounds like you've got a good plan and are allowing yourself a realistic time frame. Welcome to the rebellion.