A Series of Wonderful Events

So I have been cheating a little bit on the diet lately!
I am ashamed to say it but the past couple cheat days have really been binge cheat weekends. I don’t know why I do it, but I do. I have decided to counteract their negative hold on me by setting specific and awesome goals for the next seven weeks. My thinking is that if I put these goals into action I will have a lot more to show for what I have been doing (as if I don’t already have quite a lot! I have lost 65 lbs =a small child= and it feels great) and I will be down to wearing larges for the first time in six years.

Weird that I let myself get this bad, but when I look back I realize there is not one single point that I can finger and say, ‘Well that was it, that right there. If I could go back i’d stop that and boom, no fat kid.’ But it is not like that. This happened over the course of four years and many, many poor decisions. Now I am making up for it. Notice I did not say ‘paying’ that is because I do not think of what I am doing as a punishment or negative thing. I love this method of eating. Timothy Ferris introduced something to me that is healthy, cheap and easy to do. I am cooking now more than ever and I look and feel great.

The upside to all of this is the emotional balance you get. Do not get me wrong, I love how physically healthy I feel, how much better I sleep and the fact that I do not snore any more is amazing! But I feel so much more balanced emotionally that it is sometimes hard to think of a time before this. Understand that I am not saying I was manic, or that I had mood swings, but I used to swing up and down quite a bit in the day. I had hacks to get me out of bed some mornings, and other days I had to stop myself because I was buzzing along to quickly. Now I have a constant and steady stream of energy and focus that is incredibly helpful.

So now I have a goal of being down to 230 by the end of the first week of June. That gives me seven weeks of eating, running and ice baths!

                                              -GOOD NEWS-

I finished the first part of The Darkness at Trellis Hill. It tips out right around 170,000 words. I am taking a small break from the book to work on some other projects, but in May I pick it back up for the last sprint to finish it! This book is so much bigger than I first imagined, and tracking where it has been and what I have done with it (espicially that this book started as a side story from another book that I was writing that failed!). I am excited for it to all come together and then sit down and start editing it.

I have a bunch of shows coming up and I will be doing a lot of work this week to get the website up asap! It will not be in its final form this week but hopefully it will be up, along with some video next week.

That is only the tip of what I have been up to, but I have to get going!

The Gentleman Magician

Jesse Gernigin