Hello, friends! My name is Ryan Bauer. I’m an entertainment producer for TBO.com.

I am 25 years old. I stand exactly 6 feet tall and weigh in at around 220 pounds. I have soft eyes, soft hair, and a soft midsection.

Being overweight is relatively new to me. The first half of my 20s have brought many freedoms. With those freedoms have come poor choices in diet and, thanks to my desk job, little exercise.

Now, I need to put down my Game Boy and shed about 30 pounds.

This will not be your ordinary, run-of-the-mill fitness blog. Instead, think of it as an experiment in creative personal betterment. A virtual Petri dish where we can forge beyond the limits of widely accepted exercise regimens and prefab diet plans. This is a place where realistic people can employ common sense to achieve realistic goals.

Let’s keep this fun. We aren’t going to be making graphs, we won’t be doing push-ups, and for the next month, I promise--no cabbage soup.

This is a journey where creativity trumps muscle, where the right brain is at the center of the perfectly chiseled form. Let’s trade heavy weights and heavy concepts for light jogging and light snacks.

Losing weight has been too confusing for too long. There is an entire industry built upon setting up false expectations and shattering self-confidence. Help me as I try to separate fitness fact from flabby fiction.

I believe that there is one simple approach that can get us all back on track.

“Eat less. Move more.”

Can it really be that easy to shed the fat? We’re about to find out!