Well, I'm GremLin and I'm a chronic exerciser and food Nazi…Kidding, kind of...I'm a military officer, currently serving overseas in the US Army, currently looking forward to getting out of the military and continuing my journey through life with my beautiful wife (who is Canadian).  I never really know what to say in these introductions, but they are sometimes enlightening to know who is answering your posts and what sort of experiences they've had so far.I guess I'll start off with my philosophy, which is associated with something I read from Charles Polquin (I think).  "Everything works, it's just for how long it will work."  Additionally, Bruce Lee's famous quotation has always found quite a tune with me, "“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”Those two foundations form a big part of my life in the fitness industry.  I can't really believe I just wrote that, using the terms fitness industry as if it's a good thing.  I have to agree with Keifer on a lot of things, the fitness industry is so broken that's it's not even funny.  There's so much information out there, that it's hard to know who to trust, unless you're willing to take the plunge and just plain experiment.  That's why I've been researching the Carb Back Loading principles exclusively.  It's hard to find people that are willing to go against the dogma of the current trends and challenge the way people think.  That's why I love a lot of Keifer's work.  His articles are solid and all backed by science, and I think he's onto something.  Some other authors have published similar pieces, but he's the only one who backs things up with research and in the trench experiments.  As for myself, I tend to experiment on myself with whatever new stuff comes out, just so I have a basis of opinion on the subject.  I started off exercising in high school, mainly to improve my 800m times on the track and to try and fit in.  I wasn't the most athletic kid in school, as well as not one of the popular kids, so I struggled with sports.  Basketball and baseball forget it...hate them.  Baseball I was okay at, but it was boring.  Basketball, yeah, truly can't make a basket if my life depended on it.  Football and soccer on the other hand were my favorites, track coming in a close third (although doing track developed additional problems for me).  I played all four years of high school football, and since we were from a small town I was able to play a lot of different positions, from long snapper, to defensive linebacker, guard, tackle, blah, blah, blah...Okay, I tend to ramble so I'll try and skip forward a bit.  I went to college at OSU, GO BEAVERS!  First majoring in engineering->mechanical->chemical-> architectural studies -> and finally arriving at Exercise Science.  I ended up taking Exercise Science as kind of a fluke, still working on housing studies, which sucked at OSU.  Who knows what they want to do at that time in their life?  I took a class on Exercise Physiology and I was hooked.  For the first time I was interested in the subject matter.  I would read the entire textbook and then try to stump the professor, whom I did several intern semesters in the muscle physiology lab.  I eventually graduated with a BS in Exercise Science, got my CSCS from the Natl Strength & Conditioning Assoc., and then got a personal training job in a Gold's Gym in Washington.  Throughout that time period I worked at the campus gym, the Gold's Gym in Corvallis (which is still one of my favorite hole in the wall gyms), and I learned a lot about working with people. I personal trained for about 4 years after college (totally loved it, working with people was great, helping people achieve their goals and get to a point where they're happy with themselves and their life), got divorced from my first wife (big mistake), and then moved around for a bit trying to figure out what to do next.  I wanted to go back to school, but I wasn't going to go back into debt again.  So, I joined the military to get a new perspective on life and get money to go back to school to get either a physical therapist degree or Masters in exercise physiology.  For a while, I thought I was going to stay in the military for a career, but I can't see myself traveling around the world wasting time when there's so much better things to do with life.  I married a beautiful woman from Canada and now am going to look at going to school up there and personal training or finding a fitness management position while continuing learning about the body.For me personally, exercise is the only magic pill.  I used to lift for running performance.  Then it was bodybuilding, which I love the training style, but I hate going to shows for 30seconds of glory on stage.  A lot of work, very little reward in that scenario.  Then Olympic lifting coaching, fell into a bit of the CrossFit craze, but that didn't fit very well with what I enjoy.  Powerlifting, cycling, hiking, running, blah, blah, blah, I like it all. If involves being physical I'm game.  Hence, the reason my philosophy dwells along use whatever works and discard whatever doesn't fit.  As for diet and nutrition I've struggled finding the right type of nutrition scheme that would help get me to the next level.  I've been on the traditional bodybuilding scheme, low carb, high fat-protein, no carb, high carb, lower calories; Anabolic Diet, finally switching to a Paleo style of eating (that finally got me the results that I wanted).  Now I've tried CBL and truly am enjoying every minute of it.  It fits in well with my lifestyle and I'm seeing improvements in BF% as well as LMM gains.  The science behind it backing it up sold me, along with the real world evidence.I hope that spill didn't bore anyone to death, but I just wanted to say hello, this is me...this is what I'm all about.