Fat Tuesday! A time to be fat no more?

Edited to include some background for the newcomers...

Another Fat Tuesday has come and gone, so shall the fat that graces my body...

That is the plan anyway.

You guessed it.  It is time for New Lent 2013.

For those of you new to this... 
The New Lent is the opposite of your traditional Lent. Instead of giving something up for 40 days, you begin something for 45.  Preferably something that is a benefit to your life.  
Not just giving up pop/soda/tasty beverage, but drinking more water.  
Not giving up junk food, exercising.
You can read more about it in the link.

New Lent 2011 went well, as did New Lent 2012.

Me after working out during/after college...
That is the goal...

This year I am going to combine the previous two iterations in an attempt to lead a  healthier life and, to steal Lester Burnham's line from American Beauty, 'I want to look good naked.'

SO!  This year I will endeavor to drink more water.  The recommended 64 ounces a day.  Not only that, I will try to go beyond that and drink less tasty carbonated beverages.  I won't cut it out completely.  How can one watch a movie in the theater without drinking a very large, if over priced, glass of a tasty beverage...?

Additionally I will be working out (again)...  This time, unlike 2011, I have a exercise facilities readily available for me so there is not an excuse to not really get into it.

This should be fairly easier to accomplish as I will have some additional free time in a short 26 days.  If you don't know what I am talking about it is just as well.  I will take out that stress on the elliptical machine and/or the stacks of weight. 

As to the rules:
- I will consume, at least, 64 ounces of water prior to consuming any other type of beverage each day.
- Each day, I will do some type of work out.  I need to break a sweat.
- A 'day' is not over until I go to bed...  In general the exercise will be the first activity of the day.  If this is not ideal, it will take place later.  If I work out after midnight, it still counts for the day...
- Unlike traditional Lent, participants of The New Lent do not take off.  It is a seven day a week deal which means it runs for 45 days not the usual 40.

In years past, I asked for people to hold me accountable.  I was expected to post that I had worked out.  Friends would ask me daily to make sure I had or had made the plans to complete the task for the day.

I am not necessarily making that same request this year but if you have the desire to check up on me, feel free...

Update in 45 days, maybe before...