One Small Step for This Man...
When I originally worked at the insurance company (a while ago now) I got myself into a great routine. I would work my 8 hours – then hit the gym for an hourish almost every night – then I would rest on the weekends. It worked really well for me and (as some of you know) I lost a bunch of weight (150 lbs)…
Then February 2007 happened –
Moving from a corporate 9-5 environment back into agency really took the wind out of my sails and for a person that is very much a creature of habit – that’s not a good thing. So my diet suffered.
Ad agency life (for anyone not in that line of work) tends to be very hectic and the hours long – it’s creative, fun and exhilarating – but tiring and stressful at the same time.
As for my diet routine – what diet routine?
I ate what I could (which was generally pre-packaged food of sorts) when I could and working out became a punch-line rather than something that I was doing daily – or even weekly for that matter…
Then March 2008 happened –
I could bore you with the details of my successive lay-offs and being the victim of restructures but the gist of which has been written eloquently on LW’s blog so I won’t say much more than that – suffice to say it was a shitty year to say the least and all due credit to LW – she handled it better (from a diet perspective) than I did.
I know I keep humming the same old tune but I have had excuses in the past. Excuses might be the wrong word – crutches might be better so I will go with that one. There were always reasons for why I wasn’t working out and there were always reasons why I wasn’t eating what I knew I should be…those crutches were there to placate my broken psyche…
Then May 2008 happened –
I started working for a publishing company running the web department. Keeping in mind that I am only on week two but so far – it somewhat resembles the insurance company in that the hours are less sporadic and the work – although not as hectic and exciting as agency life, looks as though it is going to be challenging and fun (for me anyhow). I can see that I will once again be able to rebuild my routines to include doing things the right way – at least that is my goal.
Time will tell if I can once again shed the crutches that hinder me and my travels… those crutches have gotten heavier and heavier over time however and leaving them behind will require baby steps I’m sure…
Step one has just been fulfilled – thanks for reading…