Day 49

Have been a little wayward recently. Over the last week, I continued to do good sessions in the gym and "nail my grams", but on friday I played squash twice and didn't do my sets, on saturday I had another marathon 1 1/2 hour intensive squash session and also didn't do my sets. The good news is I played a bunch of guys that six months ago I couldn't get close to: the improvement in my power to weight ratio over the last month has been so much that I'm getting around really a lot more quickly, reaching things that were previously impossible and I find I have stamina to spare. I whipped them all! Its a good feeling, but I also know while i had a couple of excellent aerobic workouts, its really the strength training that makes this all possible, so I'll be very much back on the case this week.

The real naughtiness was that on Saturday night we had a dinner party at home. One of my very best friends is leaving Hong Kong this week after fifteen years and it was important for me to see him off in some kind of style. I knew we were due for an indulgence today, so I took it a couple of days early and did a barbeque with burgers, steaks, some decent wine. And a cheesecake from the Mandarin Cake Shop. Did I bust my calories? ..er..I think so. Did I feel sick afterwards? Yup. Do I regret it? Not this time. 

So some good news and bad, but we still have roughly six weeks to go and now that I have satisfied any cravings, cleared my schedule and done the things I need to do, you have my promise that I'll be back, glued to the program with no excuses for at least the next two weeks!