Travel and health
The day job approved all of my travel through the end of the year. This means a lot more traveling in my future, one or two trips per month, probably for the next six months.
My original plan was to go back to writing novels come January. That may or may not work. I may instead keep doing short fiction until my life calms down again, which may not be until March.
I feel okay about that, not great, but okay. That just might be the way life is. I haven’t had the brain or energy to write this week, not since Sunday. I might not have the brain to write again until this coming Sunday. Every once in a while an idea pops up and nibbles at my back brain, and I want to write. But I just can’t right now.
In addition, I’ve let some other things slide this summer. I wasn’t really working out, and I let my diet and weight slide a bit as well.
However, I can’t continue to let things slide, especially not due to travel. I’m going to have to get more disciplined about things. I have a “lift heavy things” routine (all body weight) that I can do in a hotel room. That is, when I’m not exhausted, which is going to be a challenge sometimes during the weeks I travel. I don’t want to not work out the weeks I’m traveling, but I’m also not sure how much I’ll be able to work those weeks. As I said, I’ll just have to get more disciplined about it.
The other piece is diet, as in, what I eat. It isn’t impossible for me to eat in a healthy manner when I’m traveling. I do frequently overeat when I’m traveling. What happens is that I get a somewhat good breakfast, skip lunch, then pigout during dinner. In addition, I frequently run out of food just before I travel, which means I’m not eating healthy.
I need to recommit to sticking to a healthy diet even while I’m traveling, before, during, and after. This also means traveling with more healthy snacks.
As for the weight, well, that I might continue to let slide. It feels like too much on top of everything else right now. But lifting things and feeling strong will help with the weight, I know.
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