Of course I was proud of the journey, though. But I am constantly realizing that I have so much further to go. And I guess what I mean when I said I wasn't worried about eating poorly for a few days was that I know how far I still have to go. I know exactly what I want to look like and I have a solid grasp on what it will take for me to get there.

I think that if I keep those thoughts in the front of my mind, then I will not fail. I really feel that I have changed my life in the last 65 days and that the future is brighter now than it has been since college.

Maybe I was rationalizing, but I was using solid collateral to back it up. I was taking the 45 pounds I have lost to date and giving some back with the knowledge that they would come back to me. And if that doesn't make sense, then remember that it is 11:30 p.m. and I am tired.

A few highlights from the trip that are worth mentioning.

First, back at the hotel after the championship game, the head coach made a phone call. I had to leave the room during an interview. While he was gone, he somehow figured out that there were two girls giving it up to his players in their room. So he got the key to their room, went in and threw the girls out and ripped into his players for letting them in. As a horny male, I think it was a bad move by the coach because that is just outright cock-blocking. But as someone who respects authority and, more importantly, that the coach is a man of integrity who tries to teach his players about life, instead of just basketball, I think it was a great move. I like the fact that this coach cares about his players as people and not just as basketball cattle.

Also, the second day I was there, the team I covered was getting ready to play a 1 p.m. game in an empty gym. Right before tip, I was doing a quick radio pregame spot. In mid-sentence the play by play guy nudges me and points to an old guy walking slowly up the stands. I thought he was making fun of the guy and I thought that was kind of mean. But I looked a little closer, it was Bobby Knight. He was there to recruit one of the players from the team I cover. I was a little star-struck. This guy is a college basketball icon. He has a show on ESPN (which oddly I was watching the night before with the coaches). I didn't complete another sentence during the radio interview.