This morning was warm, actually no, it was damn hot. Woke up hot and bothered, had a shower, still hot and bothered, wearing shorts again today (once again, apologies for the legs, but they really are not my fault) and a t-shirt. Just glad we have no official visitors in the office today and I dont have to wear a suit.
Took the car today as I have to drive to Macclesfield tonight to train after work. Im looking forward to it, I know its going to hurt and burn, but that does not worry me half as much as not being ready for November. Stephen will make sure I am ready for whatever comes. Im glad I took the car, I just remembered why I insisted on buying a car with air conditioning (sorry planet).
Food wise, Im having some up and down days, I need to get a handle on that. I will, just takes a bit of will power and refocusing, but I will get there. It doesnt help that the rest of the house is full of chocoholics so there is always plenty of the stuff laying around tempting me, and yet again last night I failed :o( I dont know why I did this time, I just fancied it. Normally its for comfort, but this time I was calm and resonable and not angry, yet I still reached for it. I guess you cant be perfect all the time huh? My main meals are still under control by using The Diet Plate. Last night I had a jacket potatoe, with cheese (low fat) and some tuna. It was yummy :o)
I have started reading again, sounds like a strange statement, but I used to devour books, hungry for the escapism or the knowledge they contained, but over the past couple of years I have just not been able to sit down with a good book and get into it. I decided last night I was going to re-read one of my favourite books. Dan Millman's "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" which is a book which has helped me massively in my past. I was surprised at how easy I found picking it up and getting into it. I enjoyed it very much.
So today, no cycling (my bottom will be happy about that) but a serious training session tonight at Lions Pride (my legs wont be happy about that!) All in all, not a bad day.
I hope you are all well and life is giving you enough.
Stay safe.
Hello one and all in cyber land..... :o) I hope today sees you feeling revived, happy, excited, and loved.... OK OK So it may be the last Day of the working week for me so perhaps that's why I am feeling so light and happy... or maybe it was today's training session....
Training at Evade today was great, I met Tom Cox first who said he was taking the class, always a little nerve racking as Tom has high expectations and trains like a demon!!! Then Amanda turned up and they decided she would take the class, I think all of us breathed a sigh of relief and a little disappointment, there's nothing like pushing yourself hard to find out what works and what doesn't. Still Amanda had no intentions of letting us slack at all!! She put on a first rate class with a very energetic workout. Good warm up and then straight onto pads, punching combinations and kicking combinations.... the work rate was high and I surprised myself by working through it... I might owe Dan my training partner an apology as one of the side kicks sent him back a few feet.... oops. Went out for a meal last night, had a piece of steak and the most gorgeous salad and fresh fruit for afters, so hats off to Mike Colin for the meal, I knew he was talented but I never realised food was one of his strong points.... And healthy as well!!!! He gave me a book to read, Simon Wiesenthal, Justice not Vengeance, so I plan on starting that this week as well... :o)
All in all a good few days.... :o)
Stay Safe all of you.....
Today is Sunday.... weather is attrocious so no walking the dogs today, well not for long over the hills anyways. May go for a run later....
This weekend I have fallen off the diet really.... have eaten junk and lots of it.... its horrid when it happens, but I know why it happened and I am addresing that situation. It will be interesting to see how much damage I have done, I know I feel hmmm, slower? lethargic? and thats just from eating high fat content foods for 2 days???? How people that eat junk food on a regular basis cope with it I have no idea. They must have some form of super human body that cleans out fat quick.
Anyhow, thats where I am. It is kinda lonely, so if anyone wants to leave a comment, feel free.
Be Well
