I liked typing the heading "11 of 42" of 42 this morning. for a couple of reasons: 1. I'm in double figures and approaching the 2 week mark. I know from some reacearch and from extensive personal experience battling weight and weight loss, that you don't ever get immediate results. Whatever I do thoday (good or bad) takes around 14 days to catch up. As I approach 2 weeks of clean eating and regular exercise I'm starting to get the rewards I banked 2 weeks ago. Once I hit 14 days then I'll be gerring reoccuring rewards and officially in the zone. 2. the 42 bit. I thrive on routine and i am normally very disciplined, but there needs to be periods when i can relax a little, maybe eat some fried food or go out for a meal and not stress about eating a burger. This will be day 43 - 49. I like this sprint system so much better than just settinmg myself a bigger goal e.g. lose 20kg. Setting smaller, more managable goals is working a lot better for me e.g. for the next 6 weeks I'm working on weight loss with a goal to drop to 100kg. After my 6 week sprint, I'll relax for a week and plan out the next sprint. The end of sprint 2 coincides with my birthday, I won't go crazy, but it does give me something to target and plan for. I'm keeping a mental note of food that I'm craving but not eating and I'll make sure I eat them after my sprint (within reason). Yesterday felt a bit flat. I had an awful day at work with a build up of stupid work I'm not super interested in. I went to boxing at 6pm. There were a few new people there, so the intensity was dialed down a bit. I still got a good sweat up, but not a lot of other positives on the training front. But I guess I went, I trained, I burnt somewehre like 800 calories and I managed to destress a little form owrk. The gym I train at is new. The coach is great, and very experienced coaching boxing and kickboxing. I'm enjoying training there. He's new to the internet side of things, SEO, AI etc. We've chatted a few times about tech stuff and he mentioned he'd be happy to take some advice. I'll go a bit of a review of his site, llm and seo and see if I can make any recommendations. I think this would be furfiilling for me. The other bullshit work I have going on is not. I only walked about 7k steps yesterday and I feel like that is a failure. It was raining really heavily last night and despite wanting to complete my 10k for the day, i couldn't bring myself to head out in the rain. I'm not going to beat myself up over it and I'm not going to go nuts trying to make up the 4k today, but I am going to make sure I get my 10k in. Diet wise, yesterday I feel like I ate too many grapes. They're very sweet and delicious at the moment and I find myself grabbing a few after eating a meal. But a few here and a few here adds up to a lot of sugars I don't really need (especially in the evening). Grapes are healthy and probably good to refuel with, but I need to limit them. For today, I'm going to measure a serving and determine the calorie count - I think this might be a bit of a shock. The betterr optionf or grapes will be to put a masured daily allocation into a container to prevent me from taking more than I should. Other than the grapes, the diet was pretty good. Lunchwas leftover beef with a cup of rice. Dinner was slaw with a cold smoked salmon portion and some additional chicken. I also had a bedtime shake with a bit of peanut butter and greek yogyurt. Thinking about the day now, it really seems like I'm closer to maintenance calories vs any significant deficit - some extra food, less steps than normal, boxing that was 75% on normal intensity. I won't lie, I feel dissapointed in myself and a bit grumpy today. But I can't dwell on it, the day is done and its out of my control now. I can only control the day ahead.