A number of fun things happened to me this week,
and yet my spirits are lower than they have been in a while. It kinda
stinks when that happens; you get engaged in all the fun and interesting
and exciting activities that you have been so
looking forward to… and yet your life seems worse. It’s like going to a
theme park for a day, being all bouncy with anticipation and then you
feel upset or discouraged or whatever the entire time you’re there and
then depressed (not clinically, simply in a
mood dampened relative to your norm) the entire drive home because you
didn’t enjoy it. Well, that is somewhat how I feel. There is so much I
am looking forward to, but I keep failing my own expectations and
falling short.
Well that is enough of the sad stuff, so on to the
things I had been looking forward to. I am on a new diet that is
actually going fairly well, but I it is a temporary diet at best and I
will be making a transition at the end of the month.
I have controlled my appetites far more than I have succumbed to the
thoughts of wanting a snack or thinking I’m hungry. I have been drinking
ample amounts of water, exercising with regularity, added more
stretching and some relaxing meditation, and have cut
down my body weight from 185 at the end of February to 171 as of Wednesday
morning (but I had a very lazy day Tuesday with regards to getting up from watching Dr Who and eating, so I
think I am actually generally at about 173). My goal was to get my body fat
percentage to 6% by the end of the month, and
I have one more week to realize that goal. Huzah!
Then there is Rugby. I have had a conditioning
practice and then a full contact practice in the past week. Both of them
went relatively well, and I feel more explosive and powerful than I did
a year ago when I first decided to play rugby.
I have a three team tournament April 13th, and I have a
great deal of work to be ready for it, but I eagerly anticipate the
crushing contact of full speed rugby. Our team is a bit small (total
member wise and average weight wise), so I believe we
will be playing a lot of speed packages, so to speak. This means I
should see the field quite a lot.
Then there is football. I missed our second
practice because I had to work, but I have been doing a bit of my own
training methods (some with rugby) to get ready for the start of
official practices so I hope to not be too far behind. I
had so much fun at that first practice, and I have been dreaming of
playing for my whole life. This is the thing I am most looking forward
to. It’s football. It’s freakin’ awesome. It is amazing! It is a sport I
love that I have never had a chance to play,
and now I am taking life by the horns and yelling in its face that this
is something I am going to do so it better bloody well accept it! That
was a little bit more fiery than I anticipated.
Then there is news on another front; I have (once
again) been re-accepted to St Norbert College. Thank you, thank you, I
am really looking forward to those beautiful trees in the fall and the
river frozen over and the Zumba classes (but
I may no longer be going to Zumba without Sarah Christensen teaching
the class anymore :( ), the cafeteria, the classes, and definitely my dear friends. I will return!
And now; donuts. I love donuts, and I found a
recipe for donuts, so I might very well make donuts on Friday, my next
‘cheat day.’ I will attempt to shovel as much food in my mouth as I can
that day, and donuts seem like a great thing to
shovel. I also don’t work until 11, so I have all morning to make
donuts and then I can take them to work and save money by not buying my
regular cheat foods; donuts (of course), Little Debbie, Snickers,
chocolate milk, Oreos, and whatever other snacks, treats,
and goodies jump into my fanciful imagination. Massive sandwiches, fat
and greasy burgers, chicken nuggets, disgustingly tasty Taco Bell,
Cheetos and chips, whatever my fancy runs I gobble it up. Oh, am I
looking forward to Friday now!
Post your workouts already!
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