Hello and welcome to my 20 Weeks Experiment. Starting today on January 2nd 2008 and finishing on May 21st 2008, exactly 20 weeks later, I’m trying to get rid of tons of nasty body fat around my hips (and anywhere else) and get ripped abs within those weeks.

I’ve been eating whatever I wanted (and a lot of it) over the last months but this is over now, my friend. Yesterday I ate everything left from Christmas including all chocolate cookies, chocolate bars and everything else that looked like chocolate to me (don’t ask). I also ate the last two pizzas hiding in my freezer and stuff hanging on the Christmas tree (which turned out not to be eatable by the way), just to get sure no more enemies would be around me the next months.

So what is your plan, wacko?

I’m not selling any secret program here, all I try is to follow reasonable principles to reduce body fat and gain muscles. And this is how it will fail work:

1. Avoid Dunkin Donuts
2. Follow a high-protein diet with at least 1g protein / pound (body weight) reducing total calorie intake
3. Burn calories by weight lifting exercises
4. Avoid Dunkin Donut
5. Burn calories by additional cardio workouts focusing on interval training

Other important stuff: high-protein does not mean low-carb! Building up muscles can only be achieved by a higher protein intake. The more muscles you build the higher your resting metabolic rate the more calories you burn by sitting and petting your belly. This is why I’m using interval training: I’m not keen on burning calories during my cardio workouts. It is the calories burnt when resting which I’m targeting.

I’m not the fat guy you might think of in the first place. I’m 6′5 at very charming 215lbs. But: I still think I need to get rid of 20 or even 30 pounds to free my abs from the body fat’s reign of terror. Additionally, there will be some fall-backs in the next weeks like weekend parties where I won’t go without my usual ten or so pints of beer…
Let’s have some fun (or not).