I’ve decided to lose some weight. My surgery last year has had wonderful results, so I have no more excuses for not getting back into shape.

For those of you who didn’t know, my surgery was due to an cyst that I had that first got infected my senior year of high school during track season. Even though the initial infection was taken care of, it was always susceptible to a recurrence, especially anytime I put stress on the area at the base of my back. After that, anytime I started some sort of an exercise program, it would get reinfected. So I stopped exercising. And put on 100 lb in 10 years.

So, now that the root is gone, I’m back in the gym. Today, I walked a mile and biked for 5, and I feel great. I’m putting myself back on the Hacker Diet, and my goal is to play competitive soccer again. My coworker, Bill is going to be exercising with me, so we’ll be able to commiserate together.

So, in order to keep you all sufficiently annoyed, I’ve created a new diet category, and you will all get to experience my pain.