Bajai Body Camp 14.16: Day 405
Hotel Continental
Monday July 16, 2018
Tangier, Morocco
22.17% rising
There are several topics I want to tackle this morning. First, to remind myself that I have at least 150 more years to live strong and healthy and vibrant. So I might as well learn what I can to make myself... better. I'm getting back to watching, learning and absorbing educational and skills-building videos. I can become very good at speaking and reading and living Spanish in the next five years if I up the intensity and study and speak more seriously.
Tanja Marina... It's a big photo icon.
This leads me to habits, rituals, routines, regimens... Fine when I have chosen my own. Not so when they are imposed upon me. I'm re-developing the habits of morning exercises, though not as long or intense as 2016; content creation and distribution, study and the one (or two) meal a day discipline. The trick, I feel, is maintaining the basics as I move from place to place and situation to situation.
An update from The Woman. She's got a gig in Singapore and quasi-invited me to travel with her. Mary Ellen, whom I met at the VT program asked me if she, The Woman, called, if I would go running. The answer is still "no." However, I would make plans to see her if I was in that part of the world and if she wanted to visit me, I wouldn't deny her.
All ups and downs considered, she and I are entangled. I believe our spirits have been so entangled over millennia so there's no escaping each other. If she summons me to her wedding, should that happen, I will be there; just not as the groom. Of course I may have just jinxed myself.
This is a great off-beach playground.
One of the seven ways I recommend to track one's progress in fitness, weight loss and physique improvement, is clothing; how it fits, feels and falls. The shirt I purchased last November on the island of Medeira, was XL to begin with, feels looser on me. This suggests weight loss although the mirror suggests better upper-upper definition. My tighter shirts, as mentioned before, feel tighter in the upper back area. But results are okay with me.
This is my last full day in Tangier, Morocco, north Africa. Back to Spain on the afternoon ferry tomorrow. My impressions have been documented. I haven't experienced the whole country so it does call for a return visit.
I feel like I've been eating less breakfast, however... three eggs is the base. I think I ate more today... more rolls. More watermelon, but no more olives.
Got 100 crunches and reverse before breakfast this morning. I think the Bod is feeling the comeback!
Day... whatever (5) of bee sting therapy. I lost the battle against scratching this morning. Ended up putting butter and sun on it. Still itches, but I'm resisting so far. I don't plan on being stung again, but so far... four days of recovery. No more ill effects other than the itch and rash.
Workout... pushups on fists, no mat. And the usual stuff. I'm hungry. Are they still serving lunch here???
Nope. Took the walk to my spot and had a salad. Could be the last of the day. Oh well.
Salad at Ali Baba's
Salad noiss...??? have vegetables in them that I don't care for, yet I eat them because they are good for me. Thinking of food as fuel helps to remove taste from the equation... but I still like taste. I prefer spice. I should carry a spice rack with me. Anyway, I destroyed that salad... and the bread. I guess I built up an appetite in the room this morning.
Now what? Hang out? Pull up? Go back? No wrong answers. Speaking of which... no regrets not getting in the Rif pool.
Got my little workout in at muscle beach. I know I surprised a few of those skinny, yet ripped, young-boyz. I could see it in their eyes when they tried to match my reps... mind you I never got more that 5 or 6... but full extension pulls, (no need for me to go half-ass, unless I'm going full failure.) So... that was good. Hot out here, but there's a breeze.
I might miss Tangier. But not as much as Asilah.
My favorite place to eat.
Speaking of missing; Ainhoa has been on my mind. I wonder if Universe put her there. Is It transmitting a message or am I making something up? No one knows. Even if we do see each other, it doesn't mean my thoughts are a cosmic message from her.
Duh! She can message via the phone.
Salida!!
Hot water returned to the room/hotel today. I saw a few blokes bringing in tanks and I was hopeful. Yeah!! So shave and hot shower!
A little bit more exercise with the bands. Almost ate again, but didn't.
I've been scooping brown/raw sugar out of the jar... and eating it. Probably not good... but then maybe it is good. I should stop though.
Goodnight.