I have two small cavities and have had them since I was a teenager. My last physical was just over a month and a half ago. I am 24 years old, and I smoke, but I want to quit. (I just need something to keep my hands busy and keep my mind from focusing on having a cigarette. I've done it before, I can do it again.) I have issues with my knees, but they pretty-much dissolve with yoga and diet. Same with my hands. Basic stretches and diet do away with almost all physical problems, save the big one (more on that later). My resting heart rate is 90-something, high 90's.

Right now I consider my job my workout. I work a job in conservation. That is to say I spend a lot of days swinging axes into trees that need to come down to prevent wild fires, clearing invasive weeds from the environment, and doing a lot of hiking, climbing, and repetitive lifting of fairly heavy (60 lbs) items.

Now, on the note of calories, we must discuss in minor the issue of my digestive system. I had gangrene at 3 days old and the doctor was forced to take 60% of my intestines out so that I would live. Most was large intestine (or colon if you prefer) and that leaves me with a small absorption issue as my food moved through me at nearly 4x the speed of an average person (That is to say, within 3 hours of eating, I am in the restroom) and nothing I have tried so far has slowed it down. So I figure if I eat 4500 calories a day then I should at least absorb 3000 of it.

My goal weight is 150, and if I can use the muscle gain to help my muscles be evenly disbursed between fast-twitch and slow-twitch fibers, or leaning slightly in favor of fast-twitch fibers, I will be happy. I don't care about looking like the hulk, but I'd like to be able to move a television up a flight of stairs on my own or move a wheelbarrow full of gravel across the yard without having to sit down and rub my sore muscles directly after (or spilling it in mid-journey... or both)