Idle time!!!!!

After my inspiring week in the workplace, today it was back to reality and the grind of Uni. Its going to be a bit of a weird year I think with a full time Uni commitment mixed in with my industry placements. I've found the motivation for the Uni work a bit hard to find so far but I'm sure assessment deadlines will cure that.

As for the journey, well I've been fighting back again after a Saturday blow-out. Remember that statement about enjoying a Saturday with no commitments and maybe catching a flick. Well they say idle time is the devils playground and I set about proving that point on Saturday. I'm not entirely sure why I came to the conclusion that a pub lunch and a few beers was a better idea but somehow I did. So a few beers turned into a thousand and the rest is history. While I didn't get back on the scales on Sunday I'm guessing at least half of last weeks good work was undone.

I've managed to be fairly good Sunday to today but it generally takes me half the week to get myself back to the same weight after an old fashioned gorge-fest. I'm a bit annoyed with myself about this one since it was unplanned and unnecessary. I'm happy with my philosophy of not avoiding events and celebrations but this wasn't one of those. I'm heading to the Gold Coast on Thursday for a St Pats day celebration and now I feel I'll have to hold back on the Guinness to protect myself from a very sad Saturday morning.

So if nothing else, the last month has proved that I'm human and flawed and this journey will take every bit of a year regardless of what the number on the scales reads. Every time I fall over and have to fight my way back I'm learning a little bit more about myself, my vices and what sort of lifestyle I need to lead. Life too short to live it fat and unhealthy (in fact it becomes shorter if you do) so I'm realising these days of extreme over-indulgence have to become a thing of the past.

I think a lot of this comes back to the personality traits I spoke about early in this blog. I'm such an all or nothing sort of guy and as much as I've committed to this process since January 1, unfortunately I equally commit to my bad days.

So the roller-coaster journey continues. Tune in next time, same bat time, same bat channel and find out whether my roller-coaster car is on an up or the down section. I'd like to give you a hint but to be honest even I don't know.

Till then.

P