Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
The hardest part of being unemployed from a job you loved is that it keeps going on without youl For 13+ years I had a job I really loved. There were days when I didn't love it unreservadly and the (very) occasional person that was not my idea of good time. But I always told... Continue Reading →
One of the limited number of upsides to being between jobs at the moment is that I get to watch a lot of soccer. Pretty much the rest of the world calls it football. After watching many hours of international action I have to admit I'm starting to think the same way. Football, soccer, whatever.... Continue Reading →
Trying to build on a huge surprise week involves keeping your expectations reasonable. I had a big week, a week that brought me within sight of that milestone weight that keeps eluding me. But it came at least in part because I was sick and ate very little for 3 days. That's a bad weight... Continue Reading →
Missed last week. Which is probably a pretty good example of my head space. I've been unemployed three times in my life. The first time was for six months. I stopped to drop off an application on my way to the unemployment office (yes boys and girls, once upon a time you had to physically... Continue Reading →
Getting sick is a really bad weight loss strategy. Except when it's a good one. This was a week when I would be travelling and hanging out with friends. Which meant that eating might be a problem and exercise almost surely would. I tried to be good with the eating and was probably OK. A... Continue Reading →
That terrible moment just before you step on the scale. Victory or defeat? Yes, I'm not supposed to think about them that way. It's a marathon, not a sprint. It's a lifestyle not a diet. Blah, blah, blah. Every week it's victory, no matter how small, or defeat, no matter how small. I got the... Continue Reading →
Time to start facing the nitty gritty. Like the fact that my health insurance ends in a week. I promise you that I haven't just been blowing this whole process off to the last minute. OK, I pushed it off to the next to last minute. I started the process about 10 days ago. ... Continue Reading →
Well, if it was easy I wouldn't need to lose the weight in the first place. Let me be honest. I had not one, not two but three meals this past week of pizza and wings. Seriously? How stupid is that? So the number at the end is hardly surprising. Hell, given the uneven exercise... Continue Reading →
So I offer this an addendum to the previous post. I'm trying to keep accountable so you might as well see. This is the activity output from my Fitbit for the last couple weeks. Rolling hills are a great workout on my bicycle but these rolling hills show that I'm not consistently racking up... Continue Reading →
A period of unemployment will cover a variety of emotional states. There is the initial "Oh, God what am I going to do?" phase which in my case combined in equal parts with the "Thank God, it's over" phase. At some point I seem to go through a "Poor, poor pitiful me" phase. My personality... Continue Reading →
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