After yesterday's gym session, today's jump-roping day / rest-day was very welcome. My entire body was sore and achy when I awoke this morning, a good sign I guess. After ribbing Brent on his blog yesterday (just kiddin' man) for his lack of agility with the jump-rope, I must admit I was't much better at all today..basically sukked again. I guess the rhythm was just off and after about my 15th miss, ended up throwing down the jump rope on my balcony in disgust. Felt guilty about two minutes later, put on my jogging shoes and went out for a light 4km jog. As the typhoon has swept by in tokyo, it's nice and relatively cool now - actually perfect jogging weather. On a very tangential note (but what links in to the title today), ended up renting a video last night with Ethan Hawke and Wesley Snipes called "Brooklyn's Finest" (about dirty cops chasing drug-pushers, really not that original); realized poking around on internet afterwards that our man Wesley is actually serving 3 years in the slammer for tax-evasion - ouch.
Wife and kids away so truly tried my "own hand" in the kitchen today. Breakfast: one English muffin conveniently weighs exactly 70g; the carrots, burdock root and onions actually work out as a decent topping. Lunch: fried to fry up some daikon, carrots, onions and peppers for my rice allotment at lunch but they came out soggy (probably because I added a bit of water to the frying pan) and didn't taste too tasty on top my genmai even with pepper and a bit of dressing. Carbs fly out the window from our dinner menus from here....we'll see how this experiment turns out. anyone hungry yet?
Robby, you asked for quick reflections on the program so far? Parts I've really enjoyed or aspects I'd slightly tweak on either the diet or excercise part? .... I take each day as it comes. 52 days in is not as hard as 21 days in was. But veering off the path has made it difficult. I regret going off route and drinking as I felt so bad afterwards. But I also think that is part of the whole thing. You have to find out how bad it is. Anyone who has had to skip days of exercise in the group as well as the group which has just finished said that it is really hard when you then restart the exercises. I am really, really happy with the results so far and want to stick with it more diligently to get really good results. On the food front I started with some rigid restrictions-- for medical reasons there are certain foods I cannot eat. Which has meant that my meals are nowhere near as exciting as most peoples. But now I really like what I am doing with the limited food items I can eat (no soy, no wheat/gluten, no dairy, only specific fruits and veggies). The main thing I would say is just stick with it. There are really bad days and there are some good days. You finish your exercise and that's great, but tomorrow you have to do it again. However I truly feel it is all worth it when you start seeing the results. Day 40 is a major pivot point for when some of the changes start to appear. Good luck and keep blogging and use everyone else who does PCP.
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