February 9, 2012 8:52 PM HKT

Year of the Dragon - Finishing Week 4

"Come not between a Dragon and his wrath."
                                                   ~ Shakespeare, King Lear

Really worked out hard today. Friends and relatives who came across the blog saw last week's pic vs my 1st pic or 2nd and they were really pumping me up... Today I wanted to push myself to complete failure, and I did. Put in extra reps/sets in everything from the standing ovations to the one-arm curls to the pull-ups...Especially the pull-ups! Today, I just wasn't taking I can't do it for an answer... I set out to do 4 sets of 6, starting out did 4 in a row then after that it was all in sets of 2's, but I did all 24. Then I did an extra one where I pulled myself up & held my chin up for 3 seconds before going down to full arm extension, wow did that burn, but I was pumped... Planks today had me shaking, but wasn't watching the clock as much this time around, held each one a little more than 30 seconds. For the jump ropes instead of counting, I just put 12 on the clock and stopped it when I needed a rest, was going at a decent pace as well, not too fast but at about 130 a minute... Cooked dinner and made lunch for tomorrow, same as today 'Seth-O Chop Suey.' (check it out below)

The other thing I want to talk about is Indulgence Day... Sounded great about a month ago, but truth is I really don't want a doughnut, cinnamon roll or anything like that really.. I just don't know whats in it and I feel great without it. I know it will make me feel like shit, hell I knew that over a month ago, I just do not want to screw with what I am doing. This diet is really hard work and I am doing it all myself, which is one of the things I hoped to get out of this, basically learning how to cook nutritious things. Even now I find it very rewarding, but man is it time consuming!!! So really I just don't want to mess with it...So I think tomorrow for indulgence day I may go out and have a few drinks and then back on it for Sat! 

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