Thanks...Thanksgiving is Over

Thanksgiving has passed by....the excessive eating, drinking, sleeping and eating again....progressively eroding away all the hard work and exercise put in over the past few months. Do I care?......Heck no! It was good and I loved every ultracalorie-laden bite. Homecooking never seemed quite as good as when you've deprived yourself of eating terrible for months. It's over now though. The turkey has been laid to rest and all the pies have been eaten.

Krav Maga is still the program of choice...and both Carrie and I have been training with some pretty impressive looking Yellow Belts tied around our waists....impressive to us anyways. We took a brief hiatus from training to travel back West for the T-day break...but now it's back on and we're pushing steadily toward Orange Belt. Unfortunately this step will bring us face to face with sparring...A.K.A. punches (with gloves and headgear) to the body and head. There is something quite humbling about being pummelled for your first time. Boxing is tiring and quite another world in terms of standard workouts. Gone will be the days of endless punches to the air near your partners...gone will be the days of "hold on, I'm out of breath!" as our instructor will push to the edge.

The workout aside...I'm trying to get back into the sensible eating habits...however I hear the junk food junkie inside me screaming for satisfaction. It would seem that Thanksgiving has awoke the monster within and now every Entenmann's box seems to be trying to jump into the shopping cart. I know better than to let them in the house though...my self control stops at the grocery store. I just try to think to myself, "more protein, more protein, more protein" as I usually load up the cart with piles of carbohydrates and eat them just as quickly.

Until the next post I'll continue to wrestle with junk food, fight toward Orange Belt and eat more chicken (if that is humanly possible without side effects or an outbreak of Avian Flu). As the winter months approach we will see what it is like to actually lose your winter coat...rather than gain one...As I used to explain to people when asked why I was putting on weight. Could it have been the eggnog?