Day 40 of 103in365: 11/103

Hey There!

It is Day 40 of 365 and I am down 1 more LB.1 LB down is better than 1 LB up!

11 LBS down and only 92 LBS to go!

Piece of cake! Ok probably not a piece of cake, especially if there is a significant number of cake pieces involved.

I will be one of the first 3 to admit that I need to step up my game if I am going to do this thing. No lbs a week, or only 1 lb a week, is not going to cut it, Chester! (if that even is your real name)

I have been making a classic blunder and enjoying the feeling of being back on the “wagon,” enjoying the feeling of being down these first handful of lbs and feeling over accomplished and not doing everything I know I need to be doing everyday!

I went for 1 bike ride this past week and did a mediocre job, at best, of watching my intake. (come on Chester!)

This week marks my departure from such silly things! As I re-read my post from last week, I re-recognize and acknowledge that there is no time like the present to put new habits into action and minimize and/or eventually extinguish some long-standing unhealthy habits. Goodbye cheeseburgers for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dinner 2 the sequel! (dinner is back and this time it’s hungry!) Hello healthier foods and healthy portions and more moving around! I can still have a “reasonably sized” cheeseburger from time to time, (5% or less of the time) if I am doing what I need to be doing the other 95% of the time.

This 5% vs 95% theory of weight-loss will not work if you are getting them backwards … turns out. Sorry, but you are not going to lose a bunch of weight eating like you are living through the zombie apocalypse and the only way to defeat the zombies is to eat all the cheeseburgers before they do, and then the last 5% of the time, eat a bean sprout and cup of water and proclaim “Mission Accomplished!”(though for the record and all things being equal, if that kind of zombie apocalypse really does happen, call me cause I would be a valuable member of the that team!)

So here’s one of the things I am going to do different this week. I am making some public commitments. I am committing to at least 4 workouts before next Monday. I am also going to start back on some of the things I was doing before, which were focusing on:

1)    Activities that are fun for me! (bike, speed bag, wing chun dummy, martial arts, boxing drills, walking, etc.)

2)    For the most part, doing 1/3 cardio and 2/3 weight training.

3)    Keeping most workouts fairly short so I have to make them count and also so that I might have the energy to do more than one shorter workout a day.

If you want, you can make reference to the entry I made on 12/17/12 during round 1 of 103in365. It was round 1’s day 78 of 365. I talked about an article that I read in October of 2012, which was one of the catalysts for the way I am going about this thing here. This is a link to that post, and in that post, there is a link to that aforementioned article. (That link still works as of the writing of today’s post)

http://103in365.blogspot.com/2012/12/day-78-of-103in365-weigh-in-monday-33103.html

Sometimes I think of this time around as round 2. It is not always possible to get the job done in round 1! I cannot think of any great boxer who always finished the bout in the 1^st round. Sometimes it even took many rounds. I am going to finish the job in the 2^nd round, but I am under no illusion that I am better than Ali or Marciano. They could have cleaned my proverbial clock before they had breakfast!

Take away for this week: If you don’t get the job done (whatever the job at hand is) in the 1^st round, remember you are in good company and there is almost always a round 2! This week might just be the week to hit the old “reset” button on a goal that you have fallen short on, and restart with even more focus, courage and commitment! When life gives us the not so guaranteed round 2 opportunity, let alone even more rounds, we need to get even better at taking advantage of them and setting back off towards our goals! 

Have a great week!

Scuba