"I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel."

So the plan starting next week.

Firstly, it is a 40 week plan that finishes 6th December and starts Sunday back in Perth.

Quick update, if you read the first post on the blog it talks about how I was going to undergo surgery when I get back. I have currently postponed this until early June so that I can look a less radical solution to my weight.

So I have a new plan, which is pretty detailed but considering my mission it needs to be.

I need to buy a few things.

• A freezer to store my meals in. I am going to try pre-prepare the majority of meals so that I don't have to think about food during the week.
• A 65cm fitness ball -This is for strengthening my core and improving my balance.
• Investigate getting a better mattress. I need to take better care of my spine!
• 90cm Physio Foam Roller - For self massage
• Sort my health cover out
• New work out gear
• Get my feet checked out

Then comes the professional support.
Begins with arrange regular personal trainer sessions (2x per week). I have a lead on one that sounds like  perfect fit but if anyone reading knows of one in the Belmont area, drop me an email or comment.

Second is book in for regular (fortnightly) Bioimpedance Analysis as part of monitoring my general body health and weight as I lose weight.

Next is arrange regular massages (weekly for 4 weeks and then fortnightly) to make sure that as I continue down this path of exercise and high protein diet that my muscles and body can keep functioning normally. The reason for the 4 weekly massages is my body has gone through some intense training this month and I need to make sure I also recover well from that. Then it should be fine to go to fortnightly for a few months then moving up to monthly.

Eating plan:
I will be staying on this 1000 calorie eating plan ( 3 meals of 250 + protein shakes) until the end of the 40 weeks. This means very low carbs for 40 weeks and I'll need to monitor general health and potentially take supplements but likely only a good multivit..

Exercise maths:
 One of the important lessons I have learned here is that food intake is more important than anything. I have also learned that this whole calories in VS calories out thing is maths, and I have always liked maths!
Side note: Interesting article about the over simplification of weight gain being caused by excess calories http://authoritynutrition.com/debunking-the-calorie-myth/

Back to the plan, I know that we have a base metabolic rate that is what we burn every day if we are sedentary. My food intake will account for about 1000 calories of the energy I need daily, the extra will come from my body burning fat (around 1000 calories a day extra will be burnt from fat).

I also now know that burning 7700 calories will result in a 1kg weight loss.So if I only change my food and don't exercise I would still lose around 1kg a week. Which would mean to get to my first goal of under 100kgs it would take me 67 weeks (depending how much weight I have lost here this fortnight).

So I want to speed that up. Anything extra I do in terms of exercise obviously speeds up the amount of weight loss.

Basically the core of my plan is to continue to burn between 7000 and 15000 calories per week in exercise. This will result in an additional 1-2 kgs a week and half the time to get to my first goal.

This translates to anywhere between 9-20 hours of exercise a week. Which is a pretty full-on goal but hell it is only for 40 weeks! and it HALVES the time to my goal. I think it is possible though, especially with a one or two super session type days where I do 3-5 hours.

Also exercise is a bunch of stuff, like gardening, walking the dog or riding down the shops (once I have lost a bit more). So it doesn't all have to be full on gym work. Considering here I have been burning nearly triple what I am aiming for, I think it is doable.

Pic from today at Mordialloc Beach.

So that I don't go nuts though I need to make sure I find a balance of this whole thing and normality. That is going to be the challenge but I think I am strong enough to do it, with the help of my support (all of you!).

Thanks for reading, I know it is odd I am sharing all of this. I decided early on that one way to make myself accountable on this whole thing was to make everyone around me aware of what was going on. This could mean I fall off the horse in a spectacular fashion but hopefully instead it means that if I do have stumbles along the way that people will give me a nudge in the right direction again.