Day 11 of 42
I missed writing my entry on Wednesday evening. I felt like working on my app, so I did that instead. Now I can't think of anything significant to report on what is now 2 days ago.
I don't think it was a bad day, I did all of my standard activities; the dog walk, the healthy main meal for lunch, 16 hour fasting window until 1pm, measured my grapes so kept the consumption within acceptable ranges, lighter dinner with mainly greens and protein, evening walk after dinner, boxing session at lunch time. If I look at that day, its prefect and a day that a 10 year younger version of myself would struggle to comprehend. But now, its starting to feel like there is something missing. I'm putting a lot of energy into fitness, weight loss and boxing which was enough a few months ago, but I have this nagging feeling that I need to do... more.
The lunchtime boxing session was the highlight of the day. I've been working on my lead hook technique and paying a lot more attention to my weight distribution and pivots on strikes. The coach (as always), gave me a bunch of corrections and practical things I can take away and work on. It was hot today which as usual caused me to sweat a lot. I immediately hit the electrolytes and salt while re hydrating for the afternoon.
I spent the day at work feeling cognitively quite slow. I wrestled with a problem for the best part of the day. I solved it towards the end of the day, but I can't help feeling I should have got there quicker. Work is deeply unsatisfying at the moment. There so much more interesting stuff I want to put my energy into - like my own app projects, but when I'm grinding through busy work days with little time available to innovate, play or even really think for very long its hard.
Tomorrow starts my 5 days off work! I'm getting my tattoo done on Thursday and then Easter holiday. I'm planning on keeping my nutrition on point, training, spending my most productive hours working on my app, spending time with my family and getting some rest in.
Breaking the 100kg barrier is a massive psychological and physical win—I’ve been in that trench, and I know how hard you had to fight to see 99.1kg. But let’s get direct: that 'cognitive slowness' and the 'nagging feeling' to do more are classic symptoms of redlining. You are crushing 20,000 steps and 1,000-calorie boxing sessions on a caloric deficit; your body is performing, but your brain is starving. You don't need 'more' volume—you need more efficiency. If you're going to use this 5-day break to grind on your app, you cannot do it on fumes. Diagnosis: Your carb timing is off for this level of intensity. Correction: During this break, I want you to prioritize complex carb intake 90 minutes before your boxing sessions and immediately after. This isn't 'cheating'; it's fueling the hardware so the software (your brain) can actually solve problems. Don't let your obsession with the scale turn you into a physical specimen that can't think straight.