Stay on Target! Stay on Target! Almost there..... It's Monday, not usually a day when I weigh myself, but given what I've learnt about my weight fluctuation I'll be weighing myself every day this week. I consider seeing 99.x on the scale at any time during this sprint a victory. And I'm close, really close. 100.3kg this morning with another 6 days to lose 300g. I measured various areas of myself today also. This has been another important lesson I've learnt during this sprint - weight alone is not the best way to measure success. This is especially relevant when you're training at a high intensity and getting closer to your targets when weight doesn't drop as easily. Heres's what I measured today: - Waist: 98cm (down 1cm) - Chest: 109cm (down 1cm) - Hips: 107cm (the same) - Neck: 43.5 (down 0.5cm) A good start to the day again. Again, I went for my morning walk with the dog skipping down the street singing my own praises. Its amazing how a few LCD digits on a scale can effect my mood so much. I shouldn't obsess about the scale number, I know, but I'm just so close now and I'm in a really happy place. I'm proud of how this system I've been evolving is turning out, and I'm proud of my results from the last 6 weeks. I hit the gym at my preferred late morning time slot. I like this time because its at the end of my fasting window and my energy usually feels pretty good despite an empty stomach. The gym is usually reasonably quiet at this time which is another bonus. Today I hit bags, skipped and shadow boxed. I've been working on the lesson I got last Friday - small steps, back foot always follows. This has been amazing; so much more power and far, far, far easier to slip and weave. I drilled slipping and stepping to get inside for hooks and upper cuts - this works so much better with this one small adjustment. I worked hard today, something like 8 x 3 minute rounds on the heavy bag, 4 x 3 minute shadow boxing and 2 sets of skipping. I finished the session off with 1 10 minute round - I kept the intensity high on this and although I was cooked by the end, my punches still had a lot of snap to them. Good news. I haven't had many solo boxing sessions over the last few weeks. Today was good as it gave me a pretty good idea how both my fitness and technique have leveled up over the course of this current sprint. Lunch was the usual; steak and slaw with some left over roast potatoes instead of the regular rice option. I love roast spuds, but i don't eat that kind of startchy carbs in the evening when we typically have a roast. It was a treat to get some for lunch today. I could have eaten the whole bowl, but showed restraint and only had half of them... stay on target.... The potatoes made me a bit sleepy and I ended up having a small nap mid afternoon. I wanted to work on my latest tech project and needed a bit of focus so had my 3rd coffee at around 3:30 - this may have been a bad move, we'll see how i sleep later tonight. Dinner was a light beef + lamb salad. Delicious, but left me a bit hungry. The hunger vanished when i when out walking. Maybe it was a distraction thing, or maybe i just needed a bit longer to digest the food and signal to my brain I was full. I walked for about an hour which took me up to 12.5k for the day, then a protein shake at 8:30, vitamins at 10 and bed at 10:30 - I'm loving the night time routine!