Plus 4 tenths today. No big deal really,.. but what likely happened? I went for a good bike ride last evening and pushed a bit, which as we’ve seen from the running earlier this week causes my body to hold some fluids back and maintain my weight. No major biggie, because today I’ll stick to the plan and tomorrow I hope to see another nice loss on the scale.
I did go out for a celebratory cocktail last evening, and I enjoyed every bit of it! Of course that was after 80 minutes and 11 miles on the mountain bike. Every ride like last evening is a tiny vacation from all the other concerns. If I fail to focus on the ride, then I wont have near the fun and it becomes dangerous. That focus combined with a genuine enjoyment being outdoors and bang! A mini vacation if only a couple hours long. I get to return to life feeling refreshed and ready to charge onto other tasks. I really see it as a win-win.
This month I’ve almost given up coffee entirely, in favor of tea. English breakfast and yerba mate together makes a rich but easy drinking hot tea. No temptation to put creamer in it so it’s easier to maintain vigilance. I’m finding each choice compounds into the next and before I knew it I was making selections that keep me on the path. Truly, I never expected this to be easy, and it isn’t as my desire for pizza isn’t even close to gone, but most other cravings have begun to subside or have curbed altogether. One day before too long I’ll find that pizza, and it wont damage me at all. I need to coordinate that with a big ride or run day, then it wont be a problem.
It really is some kind of miracle that I can go have a cocktail once a week or so and thus far no real curb in weight loss. Maybe that falls back to a cortisol thing? Damn hormones that try to regulate you into this or that seem to work against us at every turn until they get what they want. Or maybe it’s a gut biome thing? Because as I’m finding out the gut biome is really responsible for a lot of things, there even seem to be a mental connection between them. So when your gut is happy, full of fibre and no bad things, it tends to make everything else subside or fall into perspective. All speculation really, but in any case it’s working because I find myself in fewer funks and further in between. A good thing. We all have funks from time to time, that’s part of the human condition so being able to lessen and make each more infrequent is really a nice side effect. And maybe that leads to a reduction on cortisol too? I dunno,.. all speculation! Seems to be working so I’ll go with it.
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