It Had All Started So Well - Challenge V - Day 21

Assessment - Day 21 (Wednesday)

It all started so well....Cross-Fit, Periscope, steak and eggs....then a wheel came off when I went to KFC for lunch. Not the end of the world, but it cracked the day open for more. Yes, I was productive when I went to the park and recorded three podcasts that were authentic and awesome. And I even, after dropping my daughter off for babysitting, went into a gas station to use the restroom, and, despite actually picking them up, did NOT buy the 2 for $3 Butterfingers in front of me. I went home, had a good coaching call, and then....BAM. Self-doubt about those podcasts resulted in my deleting them entirely. Then I sent my son out on his bike to go get those Butterfingers after all. And just like that, all my hard work on the diet was flushed. Ended the night with a package of PopTarts from the snack bin. Did you know it's impossible to tell what kind they are if you don't have the box? So I opened them up and they were....ugh....cinnamon. I ate them anyway, then went to bed depressed and defeated.

But it had all started so well....

27 Days on Fire

I wonder, has the flame gone out with six days to go on this challenge?

Goals Review: 

Goal - 195 lbs  202 lbs
Day 1 - 211 
Start of Day 2 - 213 Went off diet, as outlined above. Steak, two KFC Chicken Breasts, M&M's, Snickers, stuffed potato burrito & some other one dollar spicy burrito from Taco Bell. I know - just horrible, especially after the good start, and the workout.

Days 2-6 - Got up to 218, down to 216.4 today....Day two is outlined above. Day three was chinese, with popcorn and a shake at the movies. Day four was pizza, ice cream & Twizzlers, Day five was bratwurst and chicken, today has been steak and chicken and three chocolate chip cookies.
Day 7 - 214.2 - Two Bratwurst, Two KFC chicken breasts, and then a major fail with 3 chocolate chip cookies, some popcorn. Which effected pretty bad this morning
Day 8 - 216.0 - beef strips and eggs, 1/2 Costco chicken, a handful of chips.
Day 9 - morning - 212.0 - which means the weight gain was a bit of a red herring. 2 pork chops, 2 KFC Fried Chicken Breasts, plus an hour of Cross Fit
Day 10 - 212 - 1/2 steak, pork chop, both grilled, chips (too many) and salsa
Day 11 - 211.4 - 1 1/4 bratwurst, 1/2 piece of pepperoni pizza, 1 double size Butterfingers Bar
Day 12 - (Today, Morning) - 209.4, probably due to basketball yesterday and Crossfit this morning. Steak & Eggs, 2 KFC Fried Chicken Breasts, Cool Whip
Day 13 - 209.8 - Steak Shish-ka-bob, 2 porkchops, Cool Whip
Day 14 - 209.0 - Steak & Eggs, 2 KFC Fried Chicken Breasts, Cool Whip. Crossfit again today
Day 15 - (Today, Morning) - 207.8 Finally a breakthrough. Lowest since October, 2014. Small flat steak with 2 eggs, Cool Whip, one King Soopers Fried Chicken Breast, 3 chocolate chip cookies, 3 Dark Chocolate Hershey Mini's, one handful of popcorn, one healthy version of a cheddar cheese cracker. (it was snack night at Toastmasters)
Day 16 - Friday - 207.2 - two King Soopers Fried Chicken Breasts, chips with cheese, Cool Whip. Cross-Fit.
Day 17 - Saturday - 211.0 - one pork chop, one large Butterfingers, about 6 handfuls of popcorn, Cool Whip.
Day 18 - Sunday - 211.4 - McDonald's breakfast - Bacon Egg & Cheese Biscuit, Hash Brown, Orange Juice, followed by some Snicker's mini's left in our freezer. Nothing til I went to the movie, where I had 5 chicken strips, a chocolate shake made by my wife, popcorn, two handfuls of mini M&Ms, and some Twix Mini's.
Day 19 - Monday - 214.8. One pork chop, a little Cool Whip, steak, peppers, eggs
Day 20 - Tuesday - 212.8 Steak & Eggs, 1/2 Costco Chicken, handful of potato chips, cool whip. Did Cross-Fit.
Day 21 - No weigh in - steak and eggs, two KFC Chicken Breasts, 1 1/2 double size Butterfinger - gave the rest to my son who went and got the evil contraband, 2 disgusting cinnamon pop-tarts. Morning Cross-Fit.
Day 22 - Today - No weigh in - which unnerves me. How bad did last night hurt me? Would I be encouraged or discouraged? Would any weigh in today be counteracted tomorrow by last night? Yes, I'm addicted to weigh ins.

Goal - Website Revised - Investigated the viability of having someone on Fiverr do it.

Goal - Podcast Restarted - 3 recorded, 3 deleted. Had a chat with another friend of mine of FB - a speaking and marketing expert I look up to - and she recommends I go ahead and be authentic. We're having a chat today about my overall strategy as a speaker/coach.
Goal - Speak & Deliver book ready for printing - it's this week or never. I have most of it written via blog posts over the last six years. Must compile, edit, add some content, and mock it up for Create Space. 

Goal - Schedule 25 speeches - Must create call list

Goal - Blog 3x week - None.
Goal - Periscope - Yes! And it was posted on yesterday's Challenge post.

Ancillary activities - None, really. I spent fewer hours (yes, hours) playing facebook games, though. 

Podcasts - I'm going to list what I listen to, both to provide you with some listening material, and to track how much time I'm spending on podcasts.

Day 8 - Garrett J White- Daily Fuel 31 Sam Crowley- Every Day is Saturday
Day 9 - Garrett J White - Daily Fuel 32
Days 10 & 11 - None
Day 12-14 - More Garrett J White, a little Hal Elrod, and Entrepreneur on Fire, and Sam Crowley as well. Still, not as much as I have been in the past
Day 15 - Garrett J. White, and a good Side Hustle Nation Podcast.
Day 16 & 17 - more Garrett J. White, and Entrepreneur on Fire - 4 podcasts for both days
Day 18 - a few too many podcasts - Garrett J. White and Entrepreneur on Fire.
Day 19 - same stuff - but not as much.
Day 20 - just a couple again today.
Day 21 - Garrett J. White, Entrepreneur on Fire