While I applaud my 4-6:35 AM session this morning, what is it with 42 where I am just piling up the tweaks? Yesterday, I was sensitive to my left foot and left knee. Today, its the inner side of my left heel and my right knee. Oh, and I've got a crazy bruise on my right elbow that is a sensitive to the touch.

I guess I'll just chalk it all up as part of the process.

And I do love the process!

No where do I feel the most alive as I do when I work out. It's very visceral! While my hour cardio is just a wakeup/warmup for my striking as I watched old UFC fights, my time with the bag has been special as I listen to my "newly" crafted, 42-song playlist for The 16th Edition. I've chosen to train to its playing for each striking session until December 3...

...ah, the Christmas season. It seems so far away but it's nearly here!

With great anticipation, I look forward to that New Year's Eve, the gateway to a very special 2021. I ought to pull together a resolutions list, shouldn't I? Honestly, I look forward to talking to friends again. I've been off social media for years now and lost touch with...well, pretty much EVERYBODY! I gotta change that...maybe 2021 will feature a few games at the Liberty Bowl with my beloved Tigers on the field and in the stands.

"Don't you love (Memphis) in the fall?"

The 15th Expedition's results are in: I lost 11 ¾ lbs! Now at 244, I updated the graph on the Fit page

The results aren't too shabby considering I only began daily training in the last couple of weeks and I continue with eggs, meat, the occasional butter, and the weekly SPAM!

That said, I did experiment with having more carbs in my diet by revisiting a low-calorie vegetarian approach, but ultimately its risk:benefit ratio was too high. Additionally, I shelved the Bulletproof Coffee.

The last 42 day averages:

• Calories: 1956.2
• Total Carbs (g): 24
• Net Carbs (g): 11.8
• Fat (g): 138.4
• Protein (g): 152

To put it into perspective, my diet yesterday was typical to my carnivore approach:

• Calories: 1928
• Total Carbs (g): 9
• Net Carbs (g): 9
• Fat (g): 126
• Protein (g): 178

Chiefly—and this must not be understated: I am winning the battle against The Bump, that is the momentarily lapse that leads to MONTHS of weight gain; it's all there in the weight graph! This time around, I've made it through The 13th, 14th, 15th, and now enter 16th...I've never made it successfully through a fourth expedition in a row, but I feel absolutely confident its happening.

I've just got to refine my music selection for The 16th Expedition and it'll be ready—lemme tell ya, there's ABSOLUTELY NO WAY I can lapse on my fitness with THIS playlist. I'm building it to be the perfect OST to my striking sessions.

The 16th Expedition: 20⚡25...LET IT BEGIN!

Today is a special post! It's the very last day of The 15th Expedition! As such, I now release its playlist, The 15th Expedition: the New Prologue, based off songs that I pulled from The Radio of Bill.

The theme/insight? Duality?

In the air tonight into the vast, the only living boy in New York. Burning man: it's my life. I remember you—extreme ways! You are the wilderness, the world I know, so far away.

Here I go again...how's it going to be? Sure know something: walking in Memphis, with or without you, things can only get better; the best is yet to come.

In the meantime, this is how we do it: somewhere out there, smile, step out, reach out, I'll be there. Right here.

"But wait, there's more!:"

A video update: VLOG #7 (UPDATE: Link retired!)

(OK, so I don't know what to do with the convention of VLOG vs VBLOG—I've already shared my thoughts on the matter, PLUS, I like the GTA radio station feel of V-ROCK. But do I desire to be different just to be different?)