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May 11th, 2015 It's Like That

May 11th, 2015 It's Like That

It was a very stressful day at work. I dropped the ball on something that takes me literally an hour to complete every six to eight weeks. It was a critical programming responsibility and this wasn't the first time I've dropped this same ball. I could have easily been terminated today.

When the discrepancy was brought to my attention, I immediately dropped everything else and handled it, then I set up a reminder alarm that will not leave me alone, reminding me daily after its initial sounding, until I manually delete the event and set a new one. Had I done this to begin with, today's situation wouldn't have been a situation at all. 

When something like this occurs (thank goodness it isn't too often), I get into "high alert" mode, where I'm hyper aware of how I'm handling the circumstance. Today's thing didn't affect my food boundaries because I dealt with it head on. I owned it and fixed it immediately. It was fixed and a system was in place to prevent future relapse before lunch time. I could breathe a little easier and I did.

That was the difference, though. Handling it straight up instead of letting it dwell on my brain for too long. Because when I dwell on an issue without handling it directly or correctly, my brain quickly runs down possible options--and when we're talking about my brain, it likes to suggest more food.

More food doesn't ever fix anything, but it sure can take us away from the problems with a little pleasure trip of textures and flavors. When the trip is over, the issues remain--and they're usually worse. 

I thought about this difference earlier while I considered the elements of today. It was a very solid food day despite the stress. Facing the issue head on, finding some resolution and making positive progress, it all occupied my brain space and didn't allow time, space and energy for errant food thoughts.

If only every issue were as easily handled and solved. Of course we both know they're not like this every time. And sometimes handling the issue takes much longer. So we do our best. I do my best to remember that food's job isn't to fix these issues and if I'm turning to food, it's a sure bet I'm not handling the issues properly, at all.

My workout tonight felt great. I'm enthusiastic about my progress! I accidentally hit 1700 calories on the nose--and at the same time my calorie burn registered 505...My starting weight on September 15th, 2008 was 505lbs. I'm weird with numbers sometimes. I've actually made an effort to stop noticing every 505 that pops up in my life. I believe in the law of attraction and there for awhile I was seeing it all of the time...at the grocery store, on clocks--adding up calories...and crazier coincidences, like the security code on one of my cards---all 505. I don't believe it's ever meant anything other than I was carrying around a subconscious awareness of the number. You know when you hear a particular word you weren't too familiar with before--and suddenly you notice it being used in different places by different people, all the time? It's like that.

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Thank you for reading and your continued support,
Strength,
Sean

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