My Evolution

So here I am. 24 years old and a father to be and slowly letting my self go. I am not fat. Not really. But I am dissatisfied with the way I look and feel. Living in 21st century America has taken a toll on my mind and body like it has with almost everybody else. I think I heard somewhere that about two thirds of adults in the U.S. are either overweight or obese. Those are some frightening statistics.


I took an interest in fitness when I was around 14 years old. I became quite fat during middle school and decided to lose the pudge. Health class indoctrinated with the high carb, low fat dogma that just plain doesn't work. I restricted my fat intake and overall caloric intake and became a thin, lanky teenager. Sometime during high school I took an interest in lifting weights and continued with it well into college. During my junior year of college high hit about 215 lbs at around 6' 1" and could bench press about 260 lbs. I was pretty muscular but I was not lean. In an effort to get leaner, I decided to take the paleo approach. I stumbled across Art Devany's great blog and it made complete sense to me. I tried his evolutionary diet and it was just miraculous. You lose fat effortlessly on his diet. After I lost a little bit of that fat from my bodybuilding days, I let my self slip back into the standard American diet.

Those days are over now. I'm committing myself to Art's way of life because it is so obviously the best diet for any human to live on. It's time to face my reality as a human with the genes that prepared me to be a hunter gatherer. I am not a hunter gatherer and don't intend to be during any time of life, but, if I want to be healthy, I'm going to have to emulate the hunter gatherer lifestyle as best I can.

Here is a photo to show you what I look like now:
I'm about 190 lbs in this photo. I'm not aiming for any particular weight because I think goals are for suckers. I'm changing my lifestyle here, not aiming for some illusory goal. It's all about the process any way, not the end result. I think focusing on something that I don't have is going to stress me out and lead me astray.

Anyway, I think I'll post a photo every week or so to track my progress.

Gotta go. I think my fiancée is getting anxious for my attention.