30 Day Diet Reboot Day 23
January 23, 2018, 179.2 pounds
Topics:
- Rumbly in the Tumbly
- Progress
- 21 Days to a habit
I’ve had a sore stomach since Sunday. I though it was just all the beans I’ve been eating but something else is going on. Uncomfortable and prolific gas for more than a day. Kept me up last night. Not sure what it is, probably a low-level bug of some sort. Not debilitating, but something to watch. Isn’t impacting my work or training.
As the wise men said; “This too shall pass.”
Saw some progress this morning. Dipped under 180. I would expect this to be a pretty big week given the longer workouts I have.
The more important thing is that I have fully established new patterns. I’m not even thinking about ‘diet’ anymore. I’m just eating what I have prepared and enjoying it. One of the self-improvement tropes is that it takes 21 days to burn in new habits. I don’t know what the real number is but speaking from experience I can attest to that being close.
It’s part of the process for new habits. Especially those habits that are lifestyle based. Human systems tend to be elastic. There is always a natural pull to snap back to an existing state. What you need to do is hold the habit long enough that a new state, a new stasis, is achieved.
Getting better,
Chris,