Day Six: "The Sun also Rises"

It has been a rough couple of days for me personally. I've felt kicked in the gut and down and spent a lot of time worrying about water under the bridge.. PCP is helping me keep my chin up. I am going to rock on through the remaining days and achieve the fitness goals that I've always wanted but had only dreamed about.

Just when I needed a small sign that things are going to be okay, I found my missing house key (good), and I learned how to jump-rope (better).  I don't know what happened exactly, but in order to keep my heart rate and breathing from going up too much, I broke things into 25-20-25 =70 jump sets with 10 second breathers in between. All of a sudden, I could jump no problem. Fast and without wasting too much energy, just jumping lightly off the ground on my toes. By my last set of 70, I was able to get through without looking at my feet or rope once. Progress! Really needed that, and it felt good. I felt like doing a few hand-springs like I did on the pristine white sand of the Lencois Maranhenses below.   Weighed in at 68.8kg (down 2.6kg from six days ago).

Since we are going to be switching up our diets soon, just wanted to pass along a thought. I know we don't need to eat "organic" per se, but if we are thinking about what we put in our bodies, we might as well consider that option, too. For those of us who are busy with work/live alone/don't have a supermarket near where we live or work and just don't have time to get groceries regularly, why not try an organic grocery delivery service? I think it is a lot easier to find organic foods in North America or the U.K. than in Japan, and the organic sections in Japanese supermarkets tend to be tiny and obscenely expensive. There are online delivery services, however, and prices, though not cheap, are far more reasonable than in the stores. Organic free-range chicken and organic strawberries are two of my favourite items so far. For someone who gets home around 8pm-ish and lives alone like me, this service is fantastic. The site I use has a 5-day wait to receive the items though, so I will just need to sort out my list of what I need each weekend and order enough for the next week. Some websites can remember what you ordered as well so you can just top up with the click of a button. Pretty darn useful. I am not going to advertise for one place over another on a blog, so if you are in Japan and want a link to the site I'm using, please send me an email. 

Day Seven tomorrow then on to a new diet!