My 2027 Ramp — A Live Follow-Along
My 2027 Ramp
One year. Six phases. Real numbers, falls included. Ramp Day 1: Monday, October 26, 2026.
Build Your Ramp. Find Your Balance. — free with my monthly letter, The Freedom Journey
The 2027 Ramp — Six Phases
1. Build — Now until Oct 26. Landing my 2026 Ramp with Ultimate Portion Fix Plan A carb cycling. No scale.
2. Climb — Starts Oct 26. 10 Rounds and the fall eating schedule, through Thanksgiving.
3. Downslope — Thanksgiving through Christmas. Simple eating on ordinary days, guardrails around the feast days. Pumpkin pie in the plan.
4. Acceleration — Into the January launch. I hit the new year already moving.
5. Soaring — Winter. I soar past the people quitting on their resolutions.
6. Landing — Into spring, then pedaling through summer.
What you’re watching
Last summer, I fell off my Ramp. I wrote that sentence in my own journal, so I might as well write it here.
I’ve been building Ramps since 2008 — a year at a time, six phases, guardrails to catch me when I swerve. My book, The Ramp, tells the story of the 2026 build, and I left the fall-off in it on purpose. A system you only see working in highlight reels is a system you can’t trust.
This page is the opposite of a book. It’s my 2027 Ramp, journaled daily, in public, as it happens. Real weigh-ins. What program I’m running and where I am in it. The handicap that went from 14.5 into the 12’s on my last Ramp, and where it goes next. The wins and the wobbles — because there will be wobbles. The Ramp includes my falls. So will this page.
The mission for 2027 is already written in my journal: make the bad eating periods less bad, and get one summer where I stay locked in.
Daily entries run below, newest first. Start at the kickoff post if you’re new — then comment your own start date and build alongside me.
— Chad
The Journal — Newest First
START HERE
My 2027 Ramp Starts October 26. You Can Watch Every Day of It.
OCTOBER 1, 2026 — comment your 2027 start date on this post.
Daily entries begin Monday, October 5. The kickoff post above is where to comment your start date.
Build Your Ramp. Find Your Balance.
The free companion workbook. Read a chapter of The Ramp, stop, and do the assignment right in the workbook. By the end of the book, you’ll have your first Ramp built on paper.
The Ramp
The system behind this journal — the full 2026 build, six phases, guardrails, falls included. The book is the map. This page is me, walking it.
The Balance — coming Oct 26
Book 2 lands the same Monday this Ramp begins. The Balance is how you stay centered on your Ramps so each one takes you higher into the next.
Launching October 26
Walk it with me
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Educational content, not medical advice — I’m a CPA, not a physician; talk to your doctor before changing your health regimen. Disclosure: I’m an independent BODi Affiliate — links to the programs I use (here and on my Tools page) may earn me a commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend what I actually use, and I was using it long before I had a link.