Day Sixteen: "Getting used to blue skies"

"At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it." [Camus, L'Etranger]

I am no Meursault, rest assured, but the sentiment of "getting used to things" makes a lot of sense in the context of the PCP. When I moved to Japan eight-plus years ago, I made a conscious decision not to watch television. Oh, I have a TV, yes, but I connect it only to my DVD and Blu-Ray player and watch films or TV shows. I know what I am in for before I begin. This movie is two hours, that show is thirty minutes. TV is endless. It goes on and on and it is destructive to your will power, keeping you glued to the screen and the couch as you bounce from channel to channel, show to show. It does help that most Japanese TV is terrible. If I moved back to North America, I would struggle to resist watching all the pro and college sports. Nonetheless, I got used to not watching TV.

As Patrick mentioned in his email this week, I guess a big key is making this a routine just like anything else, like brushing your teeth or taking a shower. Weighing your food? Just like anything else. Exercises even when you are tired or stressed? Needs to be done or you cannot unwind.

This afternoon, I am going with Brian to meet Patrick in Yokohama. I am contemplating whether to do my exercises there, which I believe is Brian's plan, or get them done alone earlier this afternoon and use the time in Yokohama instead to ask and make sure I am doing all the exercises correctly. For whatever reason, whenever I try to watch the question video, my computer crashes. I am pretty sure I am doing them correctly as I have done them before under trainer supervision, but I've never used bands so much before so my time might be better spent making sure I am doing things the right way.

Since I will be out this afternoon, here are the obligatory Week 3 photos. 67.8kg at weigh-in this morning, down from 71kg before the program started. Although this 67.8kg number is cheating a bit as I weighed myself first thing in the morning and that is always when we are lightest, is it not. The previous two were in the evening.