Start strong... stay strong

Not picture: Searing pain

I guess the hardest and best thing to do when you change your behaviour is to just stick with it. It's all vegetables, meat, gym and getting stuff done these days. Monday at the gym was great, my squat form has improved out of sight (amazing what a good trainer will do) and since then I've been hobbling around because I am bad with progression management and I may have said, "I feel great! Who needs to warm down?"

Bullseye!

 We had our first (and last) beginner archery class on Tuesday night. I say last because now we can shoot and do all the archery things, don't need no more beginner classes! We were there for two hours, just over an hour actually shooting and it makes me want to cry tears of boredom wondering how an introductory course at other establishments can take 6 - 8 weeks. By the end of the night I could strike the bullseye and my grouping was fairly consistent. Unless those other beginner courses are preparing you for the Olympics, I don't know what on earth they teach to fill the extra hours.

Just keep eating, just keep eating...

My body is having a strange time adjusting to the new diet. I think it has a lot of positives, but sometimes I am ravenous and other times when I have proteins to eat I just don't feel any hunger. At those points I start out slow by eating all the greens and tentatively building myself up to eat a portion of meat. I am well motivated though, I want to put on about 8kg of muscle but I need to support that with intaking the parts to build it up.




Honestly - I used to think diet was a distant second to exercise in the scheme of fitness and well being (unless you were a competitive sculptor, builder, lifter etc) - partially because I don't care about food and have never been heavy, and have previously managed some muscle definition without being too careful about my consumption.



But I kind of feel like now is the time. If I'm honest, every moment is 'the time', but hesitating takes away from the finite time that we do have. So... yes. I'm going to eat my chicken now.

nom nom nom