I’ve got an 8 day sprint starting today until the end of next Saturday so I can finish 75 hard strong. After 5 days of eating at maintenance, my weight has shot back up to 92.9 this morning which is a little bit hard to take mentally.
Hopefully some of this is just water weight and will flush out, but regardless, still is a little bit disheartening when I worked so hard for so many weeks.
There are two goals for this 8 day sprint:
- Work 8 hours per day
- Achieve an average calorie deficit of 2,000 per day
These are going to be extremely difficult to do both of these, but I suppose the overarching principle is going to be to keep making choices in the direction of these goals even when I don’t feel like it.
I need to commit to staying on top of my mind when it feels distracted or is craving pleasure. Find ways to calm it down and I’ve got plenty of options for doing this like I mentioned in yesterday’s post.
With food, I always operate better when I don’t eat much in the mornings anyway but it’s just becoming comfortable with the feeling of discomfort that temptation for food provides, and finding ways to calm my mind, and keep pushing.
The hardest part of today will for sure be the 6 hour work block between 7.30am-1.30pm because I want this to be a solid 6 hour work block and this is going to be filled with lots of periods where I think about quitting and I start negotiating with myself.
Today is going to be a great test for myself to see how strong I can start in these last 8 days.
There is no limit to how much money I can make today, and how many people I can serve, and how much I can serve them. But we’re all capped and limited by our knowledge and our mental limitations.
I want to pick these apart today but it’s going to require that I become uncomfortable for long periods of the day, commit to working hard, and then continuing to make good choices when I’m in discomfort through a hard period.
That is really the key to it – getting to a place of discomfort, and still making good choices. It’s always so much easier setting these goals when we’re in a place of comfort, then when we’re uncomfortable we start negotiating with ourselves. No doubt my mind will start negotiating on things like diet and work ethic today, but I need to push through.
I will report back at the end of today but I’m excited to see what I can do today.