Can you have too much of a good thing?

Nope.

Depending on what that good this is of course.

I only have two and a half weeks left of my 20 week challenge, and also my 6 week gut-buster diet plan. It seems like I've been doing this for ages... Well, that's not quite right. It feels like this is a habit that I have always had. It's not like I have been dragged kicking and screaming out of bed each day to climb on my bike and ride to work, or brave the cold/wet/wind/hail/sleet for my PT sessions in the park, or climb a hill on a frosty weekend morning. These things are just in my daily schedule and occur. My current diet has restrictions but it's not making me crave poor food choices, or go hungry, so is easily achieved if a small amount of planning is performed. It also occurred to me today that I haven't had a single beer or wine for over 3.5 weeks now, which is saying something as I was a regular 'bottle of wine in an evening' consumer.

When the 20 weeks is up, do I go back to custard squares, pinot noir, mashed potatoes and sloth? Probably not. I'll maintain my current activities as I enjoy them (yes, even in the hail! At least it hasn't snowed yet) and my diet will remain forever altered. You see, having discovered what I can achieve in 20 weeks, I'm wondering what I can achieve by my birthday. This year will be my last 30th birthday and after that it's all middle-age! When I turn 40 in 15ish months time, I want to be fitter and healthier than I am now. That's going to take some consistent effort.

When summer kicks in, I'm going to spend a month doing studies on food, exercise and blood sugars. That may sound boring as hell to you, but a month of rigorous testing and monitoring may mean many, many years of benefit to follow. I'll be testing various combinations of pre-exercise food, pre-exercise insulin, exercise intensity and post-exercise food. Like some kind of lab rat, I hope to find what is the best conditions for me to be able to have short intensive activities, and long, endurance ones. Sometimes being a diabetic means just not being able to do stuff, or in my case, trying stuff and failing my own expectations. I'm hoping this month-long test will help me decide what activities I am better suited for, and how best to prepare for them, and what to do during and afterwards. I'll write it up for anyone who's interested, but it sure ain't gonna be published in any medical journal. Sadly there is almost no information on type I diabetics and exercise out there, and what info there is tends to contradict other information. I shall ignore it all and just see what works by trial and error. If others find it useful, that's cool, but it's really all about me.

The sun is shining, I pong a wee bit after my lunchtime session and I am feeling full after my sausages and eggs for lunch. I may just have a cup of coffee and watch the last 20% of my download happen. Sigh, such is life.