Ok, I'm going to try again.   I just got back from vacation, where I gained 4 lbs.   

I was 220 lbs.   Not terrible, but 4 pounds of fat = 8000 calories.   2000 calories is enough energy to run a 26 mile marathon.    So I have to run about 100 miles to burn this back down.

Here is the new plan.

1.) Weigh myself every morning as part of my daily routine.   The Wii will graph it for me and remember it all.

2.)  Go totally Atkins.

3.) Do lots of low impact exercise every day.   That includes a  1/2 hour walk with Dennis every day, a 1 round-trip walk to wegmans and back,  and 1 to 1.5 hours on the treadmill playing COH every night.   That should be 2.5 - 3 hours a day at 3mph,  or about 9 miles per day.

   The body will not use any glycogen for walking, it burns primarily fat.  I will not get as hungry, since I think it is when replacing depleted glycogen that makes you so hungry you can't stand it.

  I should only do high intensity exercise once or twice a week.  Without carbs, the ability of the body to replace glycogen will be limited.   If you do high intensity exercise with no glycogen, you  are going to be catabolizing your own muscles for fuel and not burning much fat at all.   Bad plan.

So if I can walk 7 to 9 miles per day, that is about 600 to 750 calories per day, or a pound of fat every three days.    So 20 lbs * 3 days = 60 days, so I should be under 200 lbs by May if I can pull this off.

Then I go back to running and a more balanced diet.   Hopefully this will also help my left foot recover too.