Nutrition update:I broke down and had a soda today with my lunch. It's going to be a very pricey soda since I promised my daughter $5 each time I drank one. It wasn't all disaster however, I just went with one cup with lots of ice at lunch and it was real soda, not diet, so my NutraSweet fast continues. I'm back on the wagon tomorrow.
The culprit (other than my ever rationalizing brain) was the dreaded combo meal. I went to Rocky Rococo's and my discount card gives me a dollar off a combo. A combo is a slice, a salad, and a soda. It's actually more expensive to order it without the soda. Now I suppose I could say just give me a combo price and I'll drink water...but that isn't what I did. I am pleased to say that I only ate half of what I stuffed into the salad bar bowl and stuck with the veggie slice. All in all a healthy if high cal (thanks to salad dressing and mac salad) lunch.
My live cheaper goal for July is still intact, but more lunches at home and more bike riding to work instead of driving can't hurt.
Exercise update: I am taking the day off after two relatively strenuous days in a row. I have an all day retreat for work tomorrow, so I'm going to go to the pool early in the morning and do my swim workout. I am actually pretty tired tonight and I wonder if it has anything to do with the caffeine boost at lunch. Perhaps I'm crashing harder now because of it. Tomorrow will be an interesting day because these work retreats are always filled with good food and I will need to be disciplined. Another good reason to swim in the a.m.
Random Musings: With about 5 weeks to go until classes start again in the fall, I finally have my legs under me again at work. It seems to take longer each summer to reach equilibrium. Obviously I'm working in the summer, but I'm able to take more vacation days and the pace is a little easier, mostly because I don't have 30-50 at-risk kids in my department every day.
It's these times where I feel pretty good, that might be work danger zones from me. I've had a weird summer, where people from odd corners have said very flattering and unexpected things to me about their aspirations for me. It is of course very flattering, but for someone who is influenced by that stuff way too much, it can be hard to sort out their aspirations and the good feelings it brings me from what I really want to do. Maybe I'll talk more about that another time, it's a weird thing to complain about...
Just as a quick example, I remember 3 years ago at my class reunion... I was talking with someone who had been a friend but not a close one and she asked me what I was doing now. I had just been promoted weeks earlier after a long process to get there. I was the youngest Dean in my college by 12 years. I was feeling pretty darn impressive and accomplished.
Her disappointed response: "Oh wow, I would have pictured you doing something much more creative..." I obviously remember it to this day and I think I bought a guitar six months later. Obviously I struggle to sort my own expectations from others expectations of me.
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