Over half done you say?

Time wise I suppose we are now over half way through the year numbers wise I'm behind not as far as I had thought once i added up all my numbers that I had been neglecting to do. Already I feel more driven to get my numbers back up. Thank you to the people who have been reading and commenting on my blogs it lets you know I'm not alone out here since lately I've been finding it harder and harder to make it to the kwoon consistently. I also have realized there are some goals that I just won't be able to do this year and that there is no point dwelling on this it was just bringing me down.

Here is a summery of the first half of the year:

I started out pretty strong with all my goals but around the last two months I really dropped the ball. Positive note though when I started this year I could barely do 35 push ups. They were something that I never worked on out side of class now my reps of 50 are no problem. Already I am seeing progress in my physical and cardio.

The biggest part of my year has been dedicated to the 100 mile challange I did. I learned how much time and effort goes into eating only local food. At times this was a major source of contention in our house as me and my girlfriend stared at our freezer seeing something like a long forgotten chocolate bar. One of us wanting to eat it one staying strong knowing that it will only lead to regret, yummy tasty chocolaty regret. This challenge taught us how to make bread from scratch including harvesting our own yeast culture for sour dough and experiment that ended in utter failure due to impatience I think it almost lead to a fight or a break down and eating out luckily I also know how to whip up some flat bread in no time flat. (<-- unintentional bad pun, sorry).

Along with bread we made all kinds of soups and salads. we also made perogies which i have blogged about in a previous post so you know all about that adventure.
Meat wasn't a problem at all since both Chelsey's cousin and one of my good friends are both hunters and were willing to share.

Luckily we weren't the first people in Edmonton to attempt this challenge so there was lots of resources online to help us find food, though this didn't make it a walk in the park. Also I would like to thank two team members for their support and ideas and for a cooler of food. Thank you Sihing Kitchko and Mrs. Donohue, without your support I probably wouldn't have thought of a lot of things.

The hardest time to follow the diet is when we go to family functions and since Chelsey has a huge family that meant a lot of family functions where is wasn't feasible most of the time eat local. By the end of the hundred days her family tried more to serve dishes that contained some local elements.

I should probably do some work though since my entire day to this point has been figuring out where I stand in my UBBT goals and things don't look as grim as I had previously thought.