Day 30 Recap

Today was fun. It reminded me of the first few days of this challenge where I was excited and intrigued about my new program. The reason it had this feeling was because I was making a full conscious effort to monitor all of my food intake and only eat until I was full.

I'm sure there are people who read this blog who have had to deal with the issue of eating past the point of feeling full. I'm not sure why but it has been an issue for me for much of my life. For whatever reason, I would just do it, sometimes without thinking.

For the first 29 days of this challenge, it was almost like I was letting myself off the hook in this category. Because I was eating healthy food (most of the time, I do allow occasional non-health foods) and exercising every single day, I guess I felt that it was okay to indulge more than I really needed to.

In hindsight, I know that I could probably have had quicker results in my body toning goals had I put my eating controls in place earlier.

But as I talked about yesterday, this challenge is introducing a process. It is a long term plan to help me create a system of habits that will support a very healthy lifestyle. Now that the fitness and healthy eating/drinking habits are ingrained (literally they are, it's an awesome feeling), I will spend the next 30 days working on this new habit of monitoring my quantity of food.

The rest of this week is incredibly busy from a business perspective. When my calendar has been this crazy in the past, I actually found myself skipping meals. It will be interesting to see how I react when I actually have to remind myself to eat !!

The good news is I have lots of fruit and my Healthy Chocolate to take with me on the road in case a meal happens to elude me!

In terms of a Day 30 fitness recap, I had another fantastic workout. Full of energy and I was able to workout at a high intensity again. I did a full arm routine transitioning from biceps to triceps for a total of 7 exercises, followed by a high intensity stairmaster routine.

I came home, had a good meal and had lots of energy to put in another 2 hours of work before bed. Very productive day for sure!