so it begins....

Hello everyone! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Rafael, I’m a 27 year old “boy” from Brazil. I have decided to create this blog so you guys can join me in what I like to call experiment and hopefully it will serve as inspiration to some, that if I succeed of course. None of the less I would like to document my journey, which could be useful as a “what to do” and/or” what not to do” to lose weight. I have never been a fat guy, far from it, but I also never been fully satisfied with my body. I’ve been through some radical transformations, actually every time I joined the gym I would shave off around 10kg in the first months. When I was 16 I weight 76kg (around 158 pounds) and probably 1.73m tall (5.7f) far from being in shape or skinny. I decided to join the gym and start a diet that I had seen in one of these women’s magazine. In less than 3 months I had lost 12kg, members of my family wouldn’t even recognize me. During that time I started studying how the human body works and how we metabolize food. I remember grabbing one of those old dusty encyclopaedia from my bookshelf and reading about calories, carbohydrate, fat and protein. I learned how to read the Nutritional facts on the packages, but never been too crazy about counting calories. Since then it has been a constant battle for me to keep up my shape. I have very bad eating habits, I’m a hardcore chocoholic and my eyes are definitely bigger than my stomach, I am the kind of guy that give a real meaning to the expression “all you can eat” in a restaurant. I eat when there is nothing better to do, I eat out of boredom, as a form of past time. In 2005 was working out 4 hours a day, 2 in the morning consisting of 30 min of jumping rope, 30 min on the treadmill, 30 min of the bike and the other 30 min for some crunches and stretching. In the afternoon I would dedicate my time to weight lifting. Yes, I working out a lot, but I was also sleeping 10 to 11 hour a day. All that while going to Uni and working (as a freelancer at home). In the end of this post you will see a before and after photo from February to September. Even though I trained as hard as I could it always seemed that I reached a plateau, and at that point I would have ran out of motivation or would move to another country. For the last 7 years I haven’t spent more than a year in one place, and the last year no more than 2 months in a single city (I am currently backpacking through Australia). Now after coming across a thousand times with the Six Pack Shortcut ads everywhere on the internet I decided to give it go and watch their videos. It showed me a lot that I didn’t know, and if everything they say is true we will see here in this blog. Everything they explain on their You Tube channel seems to make perfect sense. I will dedicate at least half an hour of my day for the exercises shown on their videos and control my diet rigorously. I will quit drink any alcohol whilst working on the program. My chocolate intake will be turned down to a minimum (maybe 1 kit kat a week haha). I will plan my meals in intervals of 2 or 3 hours depending on my work schedule. Unfortunately hundreds of chickens and tunas will have to sacrifice their life for this experiment. I will include as many types of vegetables possible in my diet and all the fruits that the Australian soil can supply. I will also post pictures of my meals on regular basis so you guys can follow what I am eating. A minimum of 6 hours of sleep I will be done every night. Since I am spending the next 8 months in a city in the middle of nowhere I will not be going out on weekends so my sleep patterns will remain consistent. I hope you all be with me throughout this journey. I know it is not going to be easy and if it was it wouldn’t be fun to have a six pack. No pain, no gain right?