Day 15 - Golden Week!

Hello all. Today is the start of the Golden Week holiday here in Japan and it started off beautifully. I had a great game of golf in the morning and had a great afternoon with the family. I even cooked dinner for everyone and tried out some of my latest concoction of 3 mushroom, eggplant and onion saute' as a side dish to my 90g fillet Mignon! The family seemed to like it so that helped add to my motivation!

I really find myself embracing this new lifestyle and liking it. I have been out in various situations over the past two or three days that would normally have had me gorging in "bad" food but I completely stood tall and stuck to my diet! I was up at 4am to play a round of golf and headed straight home to do my exercises!

I can already see the difference physically AND in my golf game! I went down a club on average. Hitting a sand wedge when I normally would have hit a pitching wedge, 7 iron instead of a 6, etc. I also was walking the whole course without being out of breath which was nice! Way more to go so looking forward to even more results. I know we have just scratched the surface on this.

Enjoy Golden Week for everyone in Japan!!

Day 9 update - Thinking about food!

Hey all. Loving the new workout regime and really starting to feel it now.

The thing is I find myself thinking about food all day long. It's not what you think, I am not thinking about eating all day, just thinking about shopping, categorizing, weighing, balancing and cooking it! This is a lot more work from the usual picking the number off of the menu when I ordered!!

Example, is Tofu a carb? Can I put dressing or condiments on my food? Does a salad count as veg? Silly questions that can easily be answered but the point is, I am now thinking about what I put in my body. That is a good thing I am sure.

Does anyone else find themselves getting tired more frequently than before? I think it is the lack of sugar in my diet but can't say for sure.

Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well and I wish you all a nice weekend and a happy Easter for anyone who celebrates it!

Day 7 - Let the roller coaster ride begin!

Hello all. So the first week is behind us and as Patrick says, hands up and enjoy the rest of the roller coaster ride!!

I am feeling really good now. No more soreness, Lot's of energy and not too hungry but eating right. Drinking much much less and almost quit smoking completely. I reduced to about 4 or 5 a day for now. My plan is to do that for a week and then drop to 3 a day for a week, then 2 then 1 then none. Too tough to quit cold turkey and expect to completely stay true to it.

I also got my new speed rope and exercise equipment. The new rope works so much better than the Dora rope that I stole from my daughter!! ;-)

Here are my pics for day 7. I think there is a noticeable difference but I am eager to see much, much more of an improvement. Totally pumped to do it! Let's go team Thor!!

Day 3 Picture - So bad!!

Just motivation! That is all I can say!!

Day 3 - My Birthday!

Hey everyone. It's day 3 and I am starting to feel it a bit. Amazing how much you can trim down just by eating half of what you normally eat. I find it's not as much the main meals but I completely cut out the snacking in between meals as well. I lost a little over a kilo in 3 days because of it. At this rate I will lose 30 kilos in 90 days!!  ;-)

I am getting into a rythm with the jump rope but I am using my daughters Dora the Explorer rope until mine is delivered! I feel like quite the man with my pink and purple rope.

Well it's my birthday and I don't think I can do half a piece of lasagna or half a piece of cake so I am just having a small cup of yogurt and fruit for breakfast and a small salad for lunch. I am going to eat the birthday dinner!! I know, I know but I am coming clean now and letting you all know how guilty I feel upfront. I will make up for it tomorrow I promise!

I hope you are all doing well! Gambatte!

Here we go!

Super excited to get started and to get in shape! Looking to get back to Peak Condition and to start feeling good again.

Here are my Day 1 photo's so I hopefully have some cool comparisons on Day 90 like everyone else!!