9 years later

Today is my 9 year wedding anniversary with the best wife a man could wish for! Happy anniversary Liezel, you really are the greatest, you've made my life complete and worthwhile, you've been a wonderful partner to be with and an inspiration to be the best I can so you and Tammy can have the best in life! I love you as much as ever and I hope we have a long life together to look forward to!

Providing of course we keep on the right track of recovering our health and well being and maintaining it permanently!

Last night's workout at the gym was very intense! I played squash against some random regular who had me running around for half an hour that I'm surprised my heart muscle didn't freeze up and blow a gasket like a cars engine when you push it too hard. It was a brilliant workout, followed by a more sedate solo game just whacking the ball at the wall (as you do in squash) for a further half hour before some other angry people kicked me off because they'd been waiting so long! After squash I headed upstairs and worked my arms, shoulders, my sixpack and pumped my moobs. I pushed quite hard, thus the soreness today, but it's a nice sore! Maybe being our anniversary I'll get my wife to rub my moobs for me later!

I did also get slogged in the nuts by a squash ball. It wasn't pleasant!

This weekend I'm going to invest in a new squash racquet. The one I got from dad for Christmas was great and I've got good innings out of it, but it's a little warped from hitting the wall too often and it doesn't have a very nice balanced action and it's very slow. So I'm going to find a decent semi pro one with a powerful action and a bigger head. I'm very excited!

I also plan on getting some smart new clothes to accessorise the new look me. Maybe even a decent haircut and not the usual tennis ball look no.2 shave.

So this morning I got up and climbed onto the scale and got quite a surprise. Not so much by the numbers on the scale, but the fact that I could see my toes! I haven't seen my toes from standing upright in quite some time!

The numbers also took me by surprise. I was heavier than yesterday, at 99.4kg, that's 0.2kg up. But then I took my place on the porcelain throne and relieved myself of the smelly stuff, then climbed onto the scale again and I was down to 98.9kg. So that's 0.3kg down on yesterday, which is less than I'd hoped for but not a big panic as I'm sure I added weight in muscle yesterday. What did surprise me was my stint on the loo brought me down by half a kilo, I swear I didn't even eat that much yesterday! WTF!!!

Dinner last night was leftover chicken stir fry, again eaten late after gym and just before bed. Before gym I had 2 provitas with avo humus. This morning was a smoothie again.

Lunch today will be yet another salad, with fruit in between to snack on. And I have a small pack of lean biltong, which will serve as my protein for the day!

BTW, the reason I list my daily food is for the sake of my diet planners/lifestyle coaches Tamsyn and William, they want to know what I'm eating and this is how I'm telling them.

Well I better do some work. Have a good day all!