It’s been a little while, but here come the lessons learned!
1) It’s all about the basics
No matter what you’re doing, it’s all about the fundamentals. Hard work, discipline, building that good foundation. It’s all typical stuff, but it’s nice to remind myself every now and then.
2) I am aging in reverse, like Benjamin Button.
I’ve had to take passport photos for the last year, sort of like school pictures. The next time I go home, I’d like to get a nice sequence of my profile shots from every year and put them in one place. I’ll try scanning my pictures tomorrow, but it’s weird that I look younger in 2009 than I did in 2004. Part of it is the fact that I’ve slimmed down after joining the TKD competition team and a huge part of it is my haircut. On second thought, maybe I won’t scan my photos. I am hilariously ashamed of the photos on my high school ID cards. My God, no wonder I was going at myself four, five times a day.
3) I have an enormous capacity for binging.
Just as a whim, I decided to buy a box of ice cream sandwiches to give myself some reward snacks as I met my weight loss goals. That lasted a grand total of eighteen minutes before I ate 8 ice cream sandwiches in one go and put on another 3 lbs. I quietly wept and threw a tantrum in a pile of ice cream sandwich wrappers.
And goals for the week:
-cook every day this week, no meals out
-work down to waking up at 6 AM