OK, so maybe I'm doing it wrong.

Weight this morning 220 - I'm 6'1" so that would be great if it was all muscle, but it's probably 25 pounds of fat.

So, made it to the gym again for another workout. I started on the treadmill again, and my calves were on fire by the 1st quarter mile, and could barely finish a half mile by walking the rest. This is contrast to the first day, which netted 0.5 mile jog and 0.5 mile.

I do better on the bike, as in, it doesn't cause my muscles to catch fire.

However, I was doing more research, and it turns out, cardio alone isn't gonna do me much good if I want to lose weight. "A pound of muscle burns more calories than a pound of fat", granted, me working out 'in general' for 45minutes is better than nothing at all, so my current course would probably do something, however, I like pumping iron more than jogging anyway.

What I'll do from now on is to work a muscle group like crazy, (low reps, higher weight), then perhaps still jog a bit, unless I was working legs. I gotta break through this weird calf burn, I'm guessing it's just pent up inactivity.

My research also was stating to do cardio like activity after the muscle building. Since the building burns the sugars, and then the jogging/bike/whatnot has no choice but to start kicking into the fat reserves.

The other side of all this is the diet. I'm gonna cut back on carbs, like bread, or "those extra chips", and so on. Also, working really hard to avoid soda. The 25c soda in the office is amazingly tempting, and in GA, I think the soda fountain is effectively free, but I just need to develop the right habits now. I've had a water jug on my desk for a long time, and actually use it, but I need to keep it filled, and probably drink at least a whole jug a day.

I probably should research the diet thing a bit more, and figure out what a decent daily diet looks like. I still don't eat breakfast (though I hear thats not a good idea), but I'm simply used to it. I do drink alot of sobe in the morning, and one of those bottles is 600 calories or something insane. Those will have to be taken out of my daily routine entirely.

I'm hoping that by removing the Sobe and "afternoon Dr Pepper", thats close to 800 sugary calories gone *per day*, so I'm hoping that will help a bunch as well.

For now, I just have to go full bore into this, and perhaps I'll see some obvious progress in a few weeks. My weight not actually change though ( exchanging muscle for fat), so I might have to go with measurements versus weight reports.