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But, but, but RedStone! Zero Week is almost over! You missed it! It's yesterday's news!! Okay, yeah. This past week has been a teeny bit busy. I was wrapping up my cramming studies and trying not to freak out about the test, but happen to be an irrationally nervous test taker. Even now, how many years after school... the anxiety peaked on Monday/Tuesday ish, chilled on Wednesday, then woke me up, bright and tweak eyed Thursday morning before the test. Top priority was getting through the week. It is now Saturday, and heyo, I'm still kicking! (Though TBH it hasn't really sunk in that it's over yet...) For me, Zero Week is about reflection and analysis. Pre-season is ending, a new stage is beginning. Work has been done, work will continue to be done. It's time to look at what's been accomplished and see how it's going to be applied to the next stages. It's kind of like New Years introspection, except it's always happening... rolling along with action. This past challenge in particular, along with this new one here, straddles a few important calendar dates for me: a year of being active on NF, a year of heavy lifting. The beginning of my transition to functional eating and healthy metabolism, as well as a new respect for what relapses can look and feel like for me. AH, and yes, becoming certified for personal training by the American Council on Exercise Everything was timed out nicely... study until my brain melts (check), take the test (check), pass the test (did that really happen??), go on vacation. I don't know about you guys, but I find travel extremely invigorating. Even just a local-ish weekend away looking for geo caches (seriously try it, it's awesome!) helps me hit the reset button. On Tuesday, Mr Red and I will be taking a week long road trip from Miami ---> St Augustine. Special events include a Mets spring training game on Mr Red's birthday, and a wedding for one of my dear Kung Fu brothers (and the initial spark behind the trip.) There will also be dancing and Everglading and botanical gardening maybe, and a whole lot of walking around. Since test week was Zero Week (ZERO WEEK!) and week 1-2 is travel, I debated skipping the challenge this go around. Then I found myself nearly writing a novel on my battle log, and also being relieved that now that the challenge was over I could start skipping breakfast. So, I made a tracker to keep me inline! Food and water weren't great surrounding the test, and I'm feeling that this will have to be a focus while I'm traveling. Eat to 1650 as close as possible, don't eat junk, reduce sugar, cause damn girl, you're getting hooked on the sweet stuff again. _____ WAIT. OK. Before I get ahead of myself... I should get back to Zero Week. (ZERO WEEK!) Since my schedule is so inconsistent during this challenge, and since I'm kind of at a personal cross roads in my life, I'M GOING TO HAVE ZERO WEEK FOR EVERY WEEK of this challenge Each week will have a new set of goals based on all of the new things going forward, and I will keep the goals even simpler than usual so as not to overload. For example, I usually include training on my trackers. But I always train no matter what. So... I don't have to include that... unless... I want to see boxes colored in. Which I usually do. (And why I usually include them on my challenges.) Hmm, very nice circular logic RedStone. Didn't really go anywhere though... _____ TLDR: new goals every week: just a few, simple and effective goals geared towards moving me forward in the next stages of my grand schemes. I dunno. TBD every week. That's the point _____ SO. The rest of this week = getting away from the junk I've been eating the last few days (OMG after the test... yeah. Jeez. White Castle. Don't think I've had that since 2001. I'll tell ya'll about that later...) while not loading up on groceries since leaving on Tuesday. Figure out training program with Lou. Get ready to peace out and get some sun, pamper: hair, maybe nails and clothes. PLAN TRAVEL GOALS for Zero Week Mach II. HIT THE DAMN RESET BUTTON. Let's do this.