Why another blog?

I already have one blog that nobody reads, so why on earth would I possibly need another one? Because this one is going to be more focused, and much more important. It's going to be about my kid (soon to be kids), and it's going to be about me being healthy. That's all. If neither of these interests you, then I completely understand. I can't imagine that many people will want to read any of this, and that's okay. This is just for me more than anything.

I feel like I have always been fat. I haven't, which is weird now, looking back. I remember junior year of high school I lied about my weight for the football roster, rounding up by a few pounds because I thought 200 sounded more impressive. This means that A) there was a time around 20 years ago when I weighed under two bills and B) there was an instance in which I wished I weighed more than I actually did.

Neither of those is the case now.

In 2006 I weighed in at 346 pounds. I think that was my absolute heaviest, but I may just call it an even 350. In 2007 I had a son on the way and an upcoming movie shoot--two great reasons to get motivated. I got down to the low 280s by spring and then reached 275 that fall. In late 2007 and 2008 I regressed. In the summer of 2008 I think I ballooned back up to around 325 or 330. Late last year and earlier this year I got back on track. In March I weighed 280. Then my back started acting up (bone spurs on my spine, good times), and I got back up to at least 295.

I don't need a chart or a graph to sense a disturbing pattern here.

So, I'm done with this. I'm done with yo-yoing up and down. I'm done with finding excuses to eat crappy food and to not work out. I have a boy who is two years and four months old and he's the most amazing thing I have ever seen, and I don't want to stroke out or have a heart attack while he is a kid. He's getting a baby sister this fall, which is so cool and yet so wild I haven't even fully wrapped my brain around it.

Anyway, like I said, this blog is mostly for me. It will give me a concrete way to track progress, but more importantly, if I think people actually are reading it, it will help make me a little more accountable. So, if you've gotten this far, you're obviously somebody who cares, so I ask this favor of you: become a follower of this blog. That can only help me out. You don't have to comment, or even really have to read this. But just seeing followers will prod me to keep at this.

Here's one other thing that I'm just throwing out there. If anyone ever sees me and I look like I have slipped, I hereby extend the following unconditional offer: if you ever catch me weighing over 300 pounds again I will give you $20 on the spot. That's all. This applies to anyone I know, anytime, forever.

I will have lots of boring rambling to come, so I'll wrap this up for now with a story about the name of the blog. It comes from A.J., of course. His verbal skills are crazy good for a little tyke his age, but he still doesn't exactly always phrase things correctly. The name of this blog is one of his favorite sentences, and he uses it nearly any time he is asking me to do something or get something for him. So, if there is something he wants done, instead of asking me "Daddy, will you do it?" he simply says "Daddy will do it," like it's already a done deal. It's pretty funny. So that's how I'm treating this vitally important concept of being healthy and being a good dad. You're right, A.J. Daddy will do it.