Six pack by summer

I’m not sure if anyone will see this post – I’m getting it in just before midnight on saturday.
Today (from a six pack perspective), really stunk. I didn’t get to the gym, slept really late, didn’t make food, and ended up eating garbage all day.

I did learn that Quizno’s tuna sub tastes really good with their awesome hot-sauce.

Ok, well, tomorrow is another day.

I got home last night and started watching an unsetteling movie – Match Point. I really enjoyed it, but it put me on edge.
I also had a “Metabolic drive” protein/energy bar – I got it for free with my Surge. I’m not sure what was in it, but between these two, and mentally coding when I laid down to sleep and I was WIRED.

Then when I finally DID get to sleep after midnight, I tossed and turned all night.

It’s a round-about way of saying, I didn’t make it to the gym this morning.
My weight and waist are down, but my average cardio time is slipping, it’s now at 43.67.

I just looked back at my calendar (Google!) and realized that yesterday marked 5 weeks since I’ve started this site. If I can remember, I’ll do another retrospective on tuesday to go over my progress. But what just hit me was this – I’ve made progress I’m VERY happy with in 5 weeks – and I have OVER 8 LEFT! I’m stoked.

I know this will be a shock to my friends and family, but I consider myself pretty smart.
And like most “smart” people (and / or people who THINK they are), I think I know best in most situations. Two years ago, after a month+ of working out and eating better, I was only down 6 lbs or so. Compare that with my progress this time… not even CLOSE.
I know I’m doing things smarter, working harder, etc. But I think the results come down to one thing only – dedication. Instead of changing my mind everyday about the best thing for me to do, I stuck with my first plan, made small tweaks here and there, and just DID IT. Consistant action has produced results.

Thanks to everyone on here who comments and encourages – you’re a big part of my success so far.

Here is a good essay about dedication (among other things).

So, I’m working on memorzing a Peg List. Today, when I hit the gym, I worked on memorizing my peg list the whole time, and time just flew away.

But when I got home, and started to make the chicken that was in my fridge, it started to smell really badly. I was told that is a bad sign, and threw it out. So as of right now, I’ve eaten nothing, and have nothing to eat. I don’t really have the time to go to the store, buy chicken, go home, grill it, then make it back on my lunch break.

Ideas?

I listen.

I’m pretty discouraged today. My weight is going up. I couldn’t get out of bed this morning. I’m still eating right, I went to the gym yesterday, I’m not sure what’s going on.

I’m not going to let it get to me too much, I’m going to just focus on eating right today, and getting up early enough tomorrow.

Weight is up (like it is every monday), did only 45 of cardio today, and am a bit tired.

For some reason, 8 weeks out seems like a really important point to me. One more week unti that “milestone”.

but for now, let’s just get through today.