Day 3

“Looks like I picked the wrong week to start being healthy”

All pun intended here.  Wow.  Today was another day with what could go wrong did go wrong - soon to be renamed “Landis Law”.  (it has a better ring to it anyway)  I’ve decided (after today - shift on the fly so to speak) that this whole getting healthy thing has to include a mental health day.  Coincidentally, this evening started out as my first such mental health evening.  When under stress or after bad days, the thing that calms me down more than almost anything is a nice ride on the motorcycle.  In my mind I knew that keeping my brain involved in this is probably even more important than physical activity.  Truthfully if I lose my brain, I’m going to lose the body.  (even more then its lost now)  So, I rushed home from work and set out for a mind clearing trip out in any direction I wanted.  There is something very therapeutic about a bike ride.  For me, its one of the few times I can disconnect from the world and be left with just my brain and the open road.  Obviously, the open road wins over whatever is rattling around in the brain. 

Thankfully, the ride worked the magic it was intended to.  Once I pulled in the garage and reconnected with the real world I was in a better mind set.  (ok, I admit I did stop to get gas on the ride and checked my phones for text messages - Rome wasn’t built in a day here…)  Back to the story though - I was able to eat a sensible “Healthy Choice” meal (no they haven’t paid me for a plug but I wouldn’t say no to some cash).   After eating I decided that I could go downstairs and at least run through the weights for a while so at least there was some amount of physical activity.  Tomorrow I will need to do a full workout but I feel good that I didn’t completely skip.  I don’t know/care if anybody is actually reading my rants on here but the knowledge that somebody might be has certainly helped me to strive to stay as active as possible.  Its possible that in time I won’t need that as motivation but thankfully I have friends who at least pretend to read my ramblings.  ;-)

I’m not going to dwell on details of the bad week here but I can say that stress has been a weakness for me in my life but the events of this week have helped the wake up call that was needed.  It seems to be as good of timing as any for this to start.  I have to say I’m resisting the urge to even touch a scale until next week…I don’t need or want anything to throw me off track.

In closing - I’m watching History Channel’s 101 Gadgets That Changed The World right now coming in 9th place is the alarm clock.  What sick and twisted motherf*cker voted for the alarm clock?  That would be 1st on my list of inventions I would like to go back in time and shoot the inventor.  (once I design my time machine)

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