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take it easy

i like to push myself.

however, there are times when you should learn to listen to your body as it tells you to take it easy. i've started taking naps in the afternoons if i don't sleep well the night before. unfortunately, i usually only want to take an hour nap, but end up taking two-and-a-half hour nap. because i like to push myself and because i like to demand that i use every moment given to me to get my life into better order, i almost always have a fleeting moment of guilt for sleeping too long.

fleeting because i have become better at listening to my body and i think to myself, 'you needed that nap, you shouldn't feel guilty about it.'

at the moment i've been enduring the push of doing tae bo three times (sometimes more) a week, followed by a four-and-a-half mile walk. my body has retaliated with (what i am assured is supposed to be a sign of an active metabolism) ravenous hunger. i also walk to and from work almost every day, i work on my feet, and i put away the truck twice a week. i used to do the truck three times a week, but i decided to drop saturdays since it's my permanently scheduled day off and i felt unappreciated.... not to mention i have some major life changes in the works that require my whole weekends.... as many as i can spare, and as i see it, i only have one whole weekend in the month of august left over for these changes.

i will not freak out.

more on that at another time.

i'm a little more than nervous that my month of august seems to be filling up quite quickly, with extraneous things. again, overachiever in high gear will plow you a field to plant a rose sanctuary, but won't stop to take a sniff.

i am debating taking on two jobs for a time, beginning in september. but find that unlikely considering that my self improvement/health improvement schedule already feels like another job. it really takes that much energy and focus, because i don't like to do things half way. i think it'll be another year before i have finally reached the brass ring that is maintenance.

but i have some very encouraging physical results that require way too much tmi for regular blog land, so we'll just leave it at encouraging.

gotta run

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first thing i did when i woke up is say, 'jeez, i'm hungry'.

Posted by hawkie at July 28, 2004 09:06 PM