kingkeld's Journal, 11 February 2013

Goodmorning!

It's a great day today. I had an excellent night's sleep, from 9pm to 5.30am this morning. I feel super refreshed and ready to go!

Actually, I'm going already. I'm on the train, with wife, on out way to get the hospital a few towns over for a general checkup. Nothing out of the ordinary, but a nice day since we have the day off and we'll go enjoy ourselves after the doctor's visit.

I'll be back to work tomorrow, while wife has a few more days off

Naturally, having left town on the 8am train, I already went to the gym and did my workout. I didn't want to go without it.

I love the fact that I haven missed a single workout since the gym opened. I've had a couple of times where I have moved it to a more convenient time later that same day, but never missed. Actually, my goal is to go 3 times per week, but so far it's been 4 times! 4 is slowly becoming the norm. Not bad.

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I weighed in again. I'm at 91.3 kilos, down 1100 grams since yesterday. The Indulgence Day gain is slowly coming off again, and pretty fast too.

I notice things happening to my body these days. I notice my skin getting looser. I notice me endurance getting better. I notice I'm getting stronger. I'm guessing this is because of my frequent gym visits, but of course also the better focus on RDI and food choices. It's been a while since I went over my RDI. It's a great feeling, knowing that I'm doing good.

I did great yesterday. I ended up a few hundred calories under RDI, was never hungry, had plenty of healthy snacks, like my smoothies and fresh fruit, and it really helps me to stay on track not giving in to the damn sugars. Simply staying off the sugars make the whole thing do much easier. I don't get the cravings I normally would, and I do NOT miss that

Now, why can't I convince myself if this when I DO get the candy cravings?!?

Anyways, I really see that the sugars are bad, I see how they screw up my weight loss journey, I see how they make me stress because I want more, more, more, and I see how they make me gain weight and not lose a thing for days. Remind me again what is so damn attractive about it? Lol.

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I had THE BEST rehearsal session with Burnin' Live! yesterday. We had so much fun - as always - and the outcome wasTWO new songs! Of course, us still not having a singer makes the songs somewhat incomplete, but the foundation is there. They're our own unique style, not cover songs, and not us trying to sound like anyone else but us. I like that.

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So today is a day or. This, as always, equals food challenges. For that reason I completely skipped breakfast. More calories to spend when ergo eat, so I'll be a little less restricted. This is pretty much in tune with my thoughts about maintenance I journaled about yesterday. I know I might end up with less than optimal food available, so I'll prepare to the best of my abilities.

If dinner is around the usual amount of calories, then I could havbiolog to 1000 calories at lunch, depending what kind of inbetween snacks I want. I'm considering buying a speed or two, and also stop by somewhere for a nice cup of calorie free coffee. :-)

We're considering trying out a little Greek restaurant that we've been eyeing for a while. I'm not sure exactly what they have there, but many of the Greek places here are pretty generous on their salads, and it might be a good solution. If they aren't, then I'll wing it and find the best thing available.

Or... We might end up going somewhere completely different. We'll see.

Today, I'm thankful for:
- the motivation to be hitting the gym at 7 am on a day off from work. No more being lazy for me, please.
- coffee on the train.
- spending the day with wife.
- determination to stay within RDI on a day like this. Not long ago I'd be pretty casual about it, I think. Today, I'm not.

Have an awesome week! Life is good!

201.3 lb Lost so far: 140.4 lb.    Still to go: 13.9 lb.    Diet followed 100%.