Day 113 of 103in365: 38/103

Hey There,

Right out of the gate, I will report that I lost 1 lb. this week. (I've had worse.)

That puts me at 38 LBS into this thing!

Gluten-Free January is going very well. I am still GF, although I did not recognize that there were croutons in the salad tonight and ate part of one. (I think I will live.) Franz Bread has the best GF bread I have found so far. (Since you asked)  I have tried several brands at this point, and Franz got it right!

I got some really good advice from some GF supporters (that I need to put into practice). They both suggested that I beware of just substituting as much GF carbs for the wheat carbs I used to eat. They wisely suggested to take this opportunity to cut back a bit on carbs some altogether. I am going to work harder on that this week. (Thanks for the advice, even if I have not followed it yet.)

I suffered from a cold this week (no excuses), and I just felt zapped of most of my energy. I did not get as many workouts in as I have been doing recently. That is going to change this week.

In the past few months I have been getting in roughly 4 or 5 workouts a week. They vary in intensity, in what I am doing and they also vary in length of time. I would say that I rarely have been working out longer than 45 minutes, and much of the time. shorter than that. Sometimes I do 2 short workouts in a day, instead of 1 longer one.

This week, partially due to my cold and partially do to my history around weight loss, I came close to hitting yet another wall. I struggled with the motivation to workout as much as I should have, and I made some eating decisions that were not perfect.

I was reading back on some of my older entries, and as I suspected, this is not the first I am having this discussion with you, and it won't be my last. I am very excited about how much better I am feeling. I am very excited about hearing how much different I look already. I am very excited about how much better my clothes are fitting. That is a lot of excitement!

All that being said, I still find myself needing to push through this sabotaging "urge" and this learned response to a noticeable level of weight loss success. Until now, I have always said to myself whether consciously or unconsciously, "I Say. Well done old man. Jolly good show and all that. Now sit back and relax a bit". This is one of the main reasons I have not been successful in the past. I have historically fell back into a comfortable and easy (eat more and exercise less) lifestyle.

Not this time Toodles!

I thought back today to a documentary that we watched about Air Force One. (The plane(s) not the movie) (Good movie though with Harrison Ford) (I like that guy) (As much as I know about him at least)

Anywho, this documentary talked about all manner of fascinating facts about Air Force One. Digression in 3 .... 2 .... 1 ....

Did you know that there are actually 2 identical Boeing 747-200Bs that serve as Air Force One so that if one has a problem, they just switch to the other one faster than you can say "Luke, we're gonna have company!" (Sorry. Harrison Ford on the brain.)

Also, there is a sizable crew of folks that keep these two planes in perfect running order. Another interesting fact is that even though those two 747s are what we know as Air Force One, really Air Force One is any Air Force plane the President it currently on.

One of the pilots in the documentary said something that really stuck with me and is the reason I got onto the topic of the President's plane in the first place. He said that every time the President is on Air Force One, it is an official Air Force Mission. He went on to state that everything and everybody has to be perfect because when they have the President, it is a "Zero-Fail Mission."

I like that. Zero-Fail Mission! There is no acceptance of failure! No matter what has to be done. Whether the plane has to be switched out, refueled in midair, or any number of prepared contingency plans, the mission can not and will not "Fail".

I am on a "Zero-Fail Mission" to lose and keep this weight off, and to get and stay fit! That means that I have to continue to prepare contingency plans for anything that might come up on my personal mission too. I have to continue to not accept anything but success and not accept failure. That is how committed I am to these goals! I am doing whatever it takes this time, and that is a level of commitment I have not had before.

Are you that committed to your main goals right now? Are you committed to doing whatever it takes to succeed this time, no matter how long it takes! (and no matter how many times you have come short before now?) If not, that is where you need to be. That is the only way you or I are going to reach any of the goals we maybe previously felt were unreachable or too difficult. 

I hope you think of your most important goal(s) with me right now and declare with me ...

"I am on a Zero-Fail Mission!"

Scuba