Today is my partner’s birthday!! 🎉 Earlier this week I asked him if he wanted to go out for dinner. He said “No.” Fast forward to today… stressful, busy workday (we both WFH). He walks over to my desk and says: “Babe… I know I said I didn’t want to eat out. But today has been crazy and I just need to get out of the house. Are you cool if we go to Korean BBQ?” My inner self: YEEESSS 🙌 My tracking brain: Dang it… I already pre-tracked my Thai Bison 🦬 & Turkey 🦃 Kaprow meal plan 😆 (And apparently birthday man does NOT want Kaprow tonight 😂) Of course I couldn’t say no on his birthday 🎉 So I said yes — BUT I told him my execution plan. 🔥 Game Plan: - ❌ Marinated meats - ❌ Beef belly - ✅ Brisket - ✅ Short rib finger - ❌ Ice cream (painful but necessary 😅) Now here’s the part that saves me time ⏱️ Korean BBQ is a rotational social meal for us. I eat it often enough that I already have it structured. I got the blessing from Coach @Aaron Wong 🙌 and to make life easier, I saved it in MFP under “Saved Meals.” So instead of re-tracking everything from scratch: ✔️ I pull up the saved meal ✔️ Edit the quantity of what I actually eat ✔️ Done in minutes Planning ahead + using saved meals = GAME CHANGER. And guess what? I adjusted. I pivoted. I’m STILL within my calorie deficit range. This is a SKILL you build when you track consistently. Real life will throw last-minute social meals at you. The goal isn’t to panic. It’s to execute with structure. No stress. No guilt. Just strategy + celebration. Happy Birthday to my guy 🥂🎉 We can enjoy life AND stay aligned. Balance over extremes. Always.

I’m thankful for teachers that take you out of your comfort zone. Thursday night was sparring at TKD. I did not want to take part. My inner bitch was saying no way. But I got out there and lost 😞!! It was good practice and I found a couple of things that I could improve. Then coach sent me in again with a different opponent. It was a close match but I won the second one. It felt good and I learned a lot.

Decided to add some things to change it up for once.

Did my first solo Hyrox competition today. If you want to learn about the race, here's a short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN-n8t8d2bA Anyways. It was hard. My inner b*tch was extra loud today. "Who's going to notice if you just quit?" "This is just a warm-up for Bangkok's race, you don't need to go that hard." "Your cramps are only going to get worse" Typical stuff that goes on in one's brain when going through shit 💩 But we've been here before. We've been deep in the trenches. We do hard things on the regular. I've kept enough promises to myself during tough times, so this time it wasn't any different. This is default now. Endure. One step in front of the other. Exercise what my body is capable of. What a gift! I finished in 1 hr 20 min with no injuries... win! 41st in my age group (35-39 yrs) Onto the next one! #dohardthings

It's Saturday. Hyrox Day. But I gotta put in time for this community first. So I want to know something. Finish this sentence: 👉 "I'd finally feel amazing in my body if ___________" Hit reply and tell me. Be true to yourself. Don't write what you think you "should" say. What would actually make you feel AMAZING?