I woke up early, filled with a mixture of excitement and dread for the impending weigh in. Today I was pleasantly surprised with 100,7Kg showing on the scales. Seeing 100.x was fantastic and really cemented in my mind that I'm on the home stretch for this sprint and its very likely I'll make my targets. After my coffee, I skipped off out for my usual weekend walk with the dog. A nice spring in my step after the positive outcome on the scales. Again, I know weight isn't the only metric, but its the goal I set for myself around 40 days ago and I'll be stoked to achieve it. This slightly longer walk gets me around 5000 steps. I've been thinking about building a platform to help me publish these blog entries. I typically review the entry with my AI coach which has been super useful in gaining insight and support. Today I started building! I'm really excited about this project - more to come on this later. I went shopping for clothes later in the morning. Historically, this is an activity I've always dreaded and hated. I think I've written about it before and how much it sucks being overweight and being unable to ever find clothes that fit. Or finding clothes that do fit you don't really like so your're stuck wearing stuff out of necessity, Or on rare occasions, I'd find clothes I'd like and wear them constantly until worn out - I still remember that 5XL Blue and Yellow striped Adidas polo I wore for those big fat years back around 2013. Today was different, and awesome! I found some jeans I loved and took the 38 and 36 waist pairs to try on. The 36 was a little big, and I ended up buying a 34! I do not ever recall buying a 34 waist pair of pants and I took some pride in this today. In other shopping highlights, I bought a Medium (M) t-shirt! I know sizes vary between brands, but omg! a Medium? I've certainly not bought a Medium anything since I've been old enough to buy my own clothes!! Today, I didn't even look at the XL racks and started peeking at the Ms. It wasn't very long ago I was defaulting to XXL or bigger. Today was a good shopping day. Mall shopping also has an added bonus of enforced walking and I got another 5k in here today. Lunch was a nice chicken salad with coleslaw and a jasmine rice pouch. I let that sit for 90 minutes before the gym. Apparently this is the sweet spot to get the most energy from the rice and vege for training. I hit the gym mid afternoon for my Strength Sunday session. I've grown to love this workout. Lifting heavy, big gaps between sets and an added bonus of clocking up another 5000 steps while I stroll around the gym between sets. I reflected today on how my heavy lifting has changed as I've gotten older and wiser. I'm not stacking weight on my neck, so no squats. Bench Press was my go to as a kid (and seems to be the same for all 20 something kids in the gym), but I've concluded its bad for you and haven't done it for years now. I was never a fan of machine weights as they always seemed less cool / unpure, but for a heavy day these are my default. Most of my weight lifting injuries over the years have been when setting up vs the actual lift e.g. that big flick you need to do to get heavy dumbells up to a position to press. I hit a few personal bests today (since I've been tracking) which shows I'm gaining strength and muscle as I'm losing weight. This is the holy grail of my current training goals. I'd clocked up just shy of 15k steps by the time I walked out of the gym. I didn't need to go for a walk after dinner, but I've become accustomed to it now, so did a quick walk around the neighborhood to help with digestion. For dinner, we had a nice roast lamb. I love lamb - its probably my favourite meat. Roast lamb with a lot of roast veges - I skipped the potato but doubled down on the carrot, onion and zucchini. Bed was at the usual time of 10:30. Another good day today!