This was a funny weekend… I was so chilled / relaxed and what I’d called grounded. I was also extraordinarily happy. Next Friday marks the end of my current phase, and the end of part 1 of my training. Then it’s onto part 2. And I’ll’ve completed 3.5 months worth of training – almost the same as the last time I started. I have my fingers very much crossed that I’m as engaged with it when I come back on Thanksgiving as I am right now. Here’s hoping!
Anyways – this weekend – was very grounded, but also quite indulgent. The diet kind of went out of the window this weekend. Boo. Shouldn’t have done that, but it taught me a very important lesson…
I was really on a high this past weekend. I felt I could take on the world – energy levels were excruciatingly high, and mental alertness was great. And I would say that most of that comes from the training and the diet I’ve been engaged in… especially the changes to my diet I’ve made in the past week – more actual food, less fat, more control, less ‘eat whatever I can’.
But – with the fact of me thinking that I could take on the world – I think I can do that with food and lack of training too… I realized that this is the idiosyncratic situation I regularly get myself into: I think that I’ve reached this pinnacle of mental status and that it’ll maintain – without all the world that got me there. Not so this time. I’m NOT going to make that mistake again. I’ve worked damn hard so far… put on a lot of muscle (I hope) – I can call it volume – but there’s a hell of a lot more work to do. Now’s not the time to become complacent. And I won’t allow it.
This trek is going to be awesome. I’m going to integrate a hell of a lot. And it’s going to teach me so much. Either that or I’ll kill one of the passengers. I hope the earlier 