Today is Day 60, and you have no idea the rush of feelings that are flowing through me right now. I’m excited, a little disappointed, feeling good about myself, proud even, healthy feeling, tired, energized, yeah…a little of all of the above! I’m excited and feeling good about myself because I FINISHED the challenged! I’m also a little disappointed because it is over and it’s been such a great experience. I know that there are options to keep going, and I haven’t seen them yet, but I have a few other things to take care of first. I’m feeling healthy, and energized, because of the program. Physically it has done wonders for me, feeling stronger, more energized most of the time, like my body is working better than it used to! I am also tired (some pretty long nights trying to get it all done), a little worn out physically because of being so tired and trying to keep up with the challenge and all of the rest of my life at the same time. It isn’t always easy, when you have 4 kids, and business to help run, relatives to care for, a dog, and lots of appointments out of town…starts to get more and more difficult at times! But all in all, I’ve made it! I’m an official graduate of the program! This is like my 10th or 12th attempt, and I have finally graduated! That feels good, really good!
I’m not going to lie and say it was easy either, there were times I was ready to quit, that Kat had to talk me down from following through with it. There were times where I couldn’t see straight because of how tired and worn out I was, but I got through that too! There were times where life took over for part of the day, and I realized near bedtime that I hadn’t finished the tasks needed for my 6, and had to stay up another hour or three getting everything finished up for that day, so I could get 4 hours of sleep and start over! But even with all of these struggles, it was all WORTH IT! The excitement of getting it all done, of being able to say I can do 100 Mr. Spectaculars in a day, to say that I can ride 13 miles in an hour on the recumbent bike, to say that I did a total (if you include the Mr. Spectaculars) of 190 push-ups TODAY, when I couldn’t even do 10 the first time I tried the challenge. That alone, is awesome!
I have to, in all honesty, thank Kat, my wife, because if it weren’t for her support, encouragement, talking down, and being my biggest cheerleader through the whole 60 days, I wouldn’t have made it. I also have to thank the bigs, as they were huge help too with things like helping load and unload cars, watching littles, and so many other little details!
So…It’s Over! What now? I have to take a couple weeks away, to get some health things sorted out, get through a couple of doctors appointments and minor procedures that have been postponed to complete the challenge, then we will see where I go from there! I know I want to keep working out, even if I use my own portions of the challenge, or some minorly modified version? But we will see…because doing it again is not completely out of the question, it might just have to wait a while so we can get caught up on company work, household projects, and some extra time with the wife and kids! They haven’t really seen me much for the last 60 days. These things were sacrifices I had to make in the moment for the challenge, and they wanted to do so, but that doesn’t mean that it needs to stay that way! We will see, in a couple of weeks, what I’ve got going on and how I’m going to keep my fitness journey going! I will be back, because I still have more weight I want to lose. I still want to get more of me in better shape, some more restructuring, if you will.
So what I will do, is say thank you for reading this far, for those that did, and look for more entries in the future on TLC…because I will be back!
My last Master Class video for the Professional Domain is here: