Patience and Decisiveness

Hey, I had been living in a real crappy place mentally with my own plan recently. Only crappy in that I was undecided whether I was going to make another run at more lean body mass this Winter.
Should I? Shouldn’t I? Do I want to? Why? Etc.
Well, the indecision leads to “kinda” acting like you are going to gain weight again (more eating than maintenance) and I had pushed my body fat up to 8%. Well, for those who know me you KNOW that 8% is “no man’s land” and I’ve spoken of this before. I ALL but lose my abs as I near 10% since I am Mr. Typical Male. So, no man’s land means I get blurry, crappy abs and am not really big enough to be “big.” When I was 12% body fat and 214 pounds last winter I was at least BIG with no abs. At 8%? Just kinda fatter and abs going bye bye.
Enough. Decision now made. Well, actually, decision made about 10 days ago. Down about 3 pounds. Will lose about 6 more and call it good at 6%ish. That’s where I keep good abs, am really living the Lifestyle as I know how (not bulking to gain lean body mass) etc. It’s not even hard for me as you might imagine.
The point of this? Two points:
1. Everytime I lose weight I want it off yesterday. Yep – even me. Now, for me it’s more a mental picture of “Okay, I know what to do, I’m doing it, I’ll keep doing it so let’s just get it done okay?” Nope. Gotta be patient and let the fat come off over weeks, not days. It’s not that I’m dreading anything. It’s just that it’s like brushing my teeth so let’s be done with it. Doesn’t work that way.
2. Indecision sucks. Are you undecided? Get off the fence. Once you know what you want, for real, and get moving in that direction it’s such a better feeling. Even if I had decided to get big again to add more muscle that decision would have been fine too – at least I would have been decided. Limbo, when limbo isn’t maintenance, is just not good.