I’m through the funk I had the last couple days and pushing forward.

I think part of my funk is wait loss. A lot of horrible stuff you eat over the years gets stored in your fat deposits. And as you burn those fat stores it releases all of the stuff back into your system.

I don’t know the science behind that, but read it in a couple different places. It was on the internet… I’m sure it must be true!

In reality I have no way to check the above one way or the other. But because it is beneficial to me and not hurting anyone I’m going to believe it.

Next time I get into a depression funk while I’m losing weight I know that it is something from years ago coming back to haunt me. I’ll take my lumps like a man and push through.

The most important thing is that I know it will end. And I know the why behind it.

If you have a why and a timeline for an ending you can endure anything.

Back in the Marine Corps we use to have officers and NCO’s (Non-Commissioned Officers, like Sergeants and Gunny’s) take us for runs at a fast pace without any information about the length or pace or the run. It was hard going after the first mile or so. At the time most of us could run 10 miles without stopping at a pretty good pace. But their was one Sergeant and one Major that could run marathons at almost an Olympic pace. There was no way I could keep up for more then a couple miles at their 6 minute mile pace.

So I would just dig in and try to suck it up. Run through the pain and the unknowing for as long as possible. On those runs more of my Marines fell out then any other. Not because they couldn’t make it physically, it was because they would drop out mentally. Where the mind goes, the body follows.

For me the depression is that run I don’t know how long or fast it is. So I fall out mentally long before my physical body is ready to quit.

Now that I have the cause and a timeline, I know how long the run is at what pace and I know I can push through.

The 75 Hard Challenge keeps reminding me of lessons I learned on battlefields long ago. I continue to learn these lessons over and over again.

I hope you are faster on the learning cycle then me and don’t have to repeat as many lessons. If you are doing the 75 Hard and forgot any important life lessons, it will remind you.

75 Hard I will Conquer,

Ben Branam

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