Beating Back The Beast- Five weeks.

Focus on fitness. I am pleased with how well my fitness is improving. Today's workout was 20 minutes but it was intense drills. Each drill was followed by either ten sit-ups or ten pushups.  I am finding the my muscles are coping better now that I have removed the chocolate. I get far more reps and they are not tying up so badly. I guess it was the dairy in the chocolate that was causing the problems. I am still having tendinitis issues but even they are much improved on what they were four weeks ago.

I still have days where my energy levels are non existent but I am finding that as my body lets me I can now use exercise to help boost those levels a little at times. This is promising. Instead of crashing completely if I try to do anything physical I am actually getting a little boost. I hope it will continue to improve. There has to be a pay off for eating this bland, restrictive diet.

On a side note a Chinese Crested Powder Puff dog is not always the best training partner, Poet!. His want to be as close as possible to me at all times can become a hindrance, either in the forest when I am stumbling along on my run placing one foot in front of the other or in the confines of my lounge working my drills. I feel under threat of tripping on him on my runs and in the home well lets say he may have a tender paw for a few days after sneaking up behind me. He chose that path as I had put him numerous times on the sofa 2 feet away. Not close enough apparently. So he spent the duration in his crate. Poor hard done by baby.

Poet does not like his man-bun. He continues to try and dislodge it whenever my back is turned.