This posts starts from the comment from Carol on For Susie #226
Sounds like the exam is over – hop to it!
Carol, can’t tell you how much I appreciate the accountability. I can tell you it has been a really rough month. In a matter of about 4 weeks I faced the national and state exams, the start of the swim season, and my wife being diagnosed with Breast Cancer (Surgery was Monday).
I say this not to gain sympathy, but to say, sometimes life really does get in the way. Like a frickn’ Mack Truck. Not much you can do, just put one foot in front of the other. The one thing you can do, is watch how you react to things. In the beginning I was juggling things well. Here in the last week and a half, (leading up to Angie’s surgery), I have fallen back into some old eating habits and haven’t been getting near enough excercise.
I walked through the supermarket this morning in a daze, after a fairly sleepless night. At first I was walking around in a daze, then I kind of came to my senses. I realized, I am tired, but I am using the events of the last month to drag me back into my old habits…the place where I would find some of my ‘comforts’.
I thought about your accountabilty. Even though I may want it to, time doesn’t stop, and is very unforgiving, especially if I abuse it by shoving the wrong things in my mouth and under utilizing the spare time I have to exercise my body.
Thank you for your comment. It came at a rough time, and is very, very well needed. I am going to get as much sleep as I can tonight, and head back to the gym tomorrow in the early a.m.
{ 1 comment… read it below or add one }
hey steve, my theory of life is that it looks like a sin function (remember trig from way back?) but that the ups and the downs all average out to a straight line. the ups are the good times, the downs are the bad times but in the end, it averages out. with this theory, i can get through the bad times because i know that good times are ahead. i also know that during the good times that they probably won’t last so i’d better appreciate them. so, according to this theory, better times are ahead.
your realization that “….I am using the events of the last month to drag me back into my old habits…the place where I would find some of my ‘comforts’.”
is a good sign you are going to reach your goals even in the down times.
hang tough.