Daily household chores like doing dishes and sweeping the floor have all been put on hold and I’ve started missing doing them. Laundry gets thrown in the machine but it’s days before it’s taken out and hung up. The one consistent chore we have stayed true to is walking our four-legged pups and spending any and all down time playing with them. We already feel bad enough for not being home with them so it’s the very least we can do. We’d bring them to the boxing club now if we could, but up until just recently the floor still had broken glass on it and now the flooring is being done. Everyone, including our beautiful pups, have had to make sacrifices for Hulk’s but once we get a set work schedule down it’ll be so much better… for everyone.
I come home from Hulk’s after 15-17 hours of renovations and totally crash. I am by no means complaining, I love it actually – the hard work. No one ever died from a bit of hard work but it’s definitely starting to take its toll on me. I have a sore under the tip of my nose as a result of rubbing it after inhaling all the sand and chemicals that come with doing renovations and my skin is drying out a bit. I’ve lost some weight but my muscle and strength has stayed pretty consistent due to the hard labor I’m doing, like lifting toilets and hanging up sandbags. More notably though, I’ve lost a lot of body fat and friends have noted that my face is much thinner.
Unlike many who are “stress-eaters”, my problem with eating is that I eat when I’m bored and well, I haven’t had time to be bored, that’s the thing. I’ll be the first person to admit I’m all about training hard and eating clean. Snickers doesn’t really eat at home and with our average weekly grocery list topping about $90, it’s ALL me eating that food – I’m a BEAST to feed! These days I wake up with just enough time to make my protein-packed pancake, throw it in a Ziplock and then grab some clean snacks before we head out the door for Hulk’s. My snacks usually include a couple of pieces of fruit, Greek yogurt, mixed nuts, cut veggies with dip, and hard boiled eggs. We’ve been eating all of our lunches out, at a restaurant, with whatever workers are helping us that day.
Today I looked in the back of our van – Lady Ghini – and noted the same bag of clean snacks I through in the back last week. I haven’t been eating right – I haven’t really been eating much actually. Eating the wrong foods, eating too much or eating too little are all equally bad. My bad habit these days is that I haven’t stopped to eat. I’m used to eating six meals a day – 6 smaller meals – but these days I’m lucky if I stop to eat 2 or 3. I just get way too focused on a task at the club; there’s just so much to do. No sooner do I finish one thing but then another five pop up. I’m just so eager to get Hulk’s finished, totally focused on it, but that’s no excuse for ignoring my clean eating habits or my own health.
I've been offered a fight in Japan but with the demands of renovations and prep work for our boxing club, I had to say no to it. It's not scheduled until June but with us having our grand opening mid May, I anticipate me being busy and working on overdrive mode to go well into June. I can't afford to step back and focus solely on my training with Hulk's being newly opened. A part of me regrets having to say no to my promoter but I think it's the best thing to do for Hulk's.
I’m running solely on pure passion for what I’m doing and though that’s good fuel for my mind, my body just isn’t accepting it. Coffee is not a meal replacement but it’s proven to be the crunch I’ve been leaning on to get me through another long day. I can’t say I drink a lot of coffee actually. Usually it’s just one cup a day, sometimes two, but it’s a much needed cup of coffee that my body now craves and depends on. Today I tried to go coffee-free and wow did that not work. Scooter Girl dropped by Hulk’s tonight with Trainer Thor and I pretty much had to stand leaning against the juice bar the whole time. I had started to crash even before the day had started actually and when they arrived in the early evening I was beyond exhausted. Finally at 9pm Snickers and I called it a day. It was a rough, rough day… too rough!
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