{"id":633,"date":"2016-06-06T07:40:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T13:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/?p=633"},"modified":"2016-06-06T07:40:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T13:40:31","slug":"any-place-aimed-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/2016\/06\/any-place-aimed-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Any Place Aimed, Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever have your stomach bother you so badly that you ended up reconsidering your life choices?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a rough couple of weeks. Sometimes I feel like I just pinball from one illness to the next. At least on this one, I don&#8217;t have to worry about being a hypochondriac. You don&#8217;t imagine almost throwing up, having that acid climb all the way up into the back of your mouth.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking it over and my best guess is it&#8217;s a combination of two things. One is acid reflux, brought on from being overweight and overly sedentary. The other is stress.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bV-hSgL1R74?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that odd? I don&#8217;t feel like I have all that much to be stressed out about. And yet I notice it, carrying way too much tension in my head and my shoulders. The logical place to look for sources of stress would be my job, but I have trouble coming up with much. We finished one big project, the next one is going to be much slower to roll out by design (we don&#8217;t get to start in earnest until August). Maybe it&#8217;s impostor syndrome. I feel like I&#8217;m over that, though.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it just has to do with getting up earlier than I ever have in my life. The thing with that, I&#8217;ve thoroughly acclimated to getting up by 5:15 and certainly no later than 6. Two weeks ago I worked out of the Albuquerque office for two days, meaning I didn&#8217;t have to leave the house until 7:35. Contrast that with my 6:05 cutoff to leave most days. I could not bring myself to fall back to sleep  that morning.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll solve a lot of problems by losing weight. I also remember that common advice, which is don&#8217;t announce that you&#8217;re going to lose weight. The idea there is that your brain isn&#8217;t terribly clever and will substitute words for actions and reward you with dopamine, even though you haven&#8217;t actually done the work yet. At the very least, don&#8217;t write about it until you&#8217;ve started, which I did last week, adding multiple breaks from my day to get up and take a walk. The long one is about 20 minutes, and there&#8217;s a shorter one that&#8217;s about 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Fitbit recently updated their app and added a couple of new metrics. They want you to get up and take at least a short walk (250 steps) every hour, from 8 to 5. (I may integrate this with [Pomodoro](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pomodoro_Technique), doing two pomodoros and then going for a walk, then repeating.) They also want 30 minutes of exercise, 5 days a week. I&#8217;m pleased to say I managed that last week. 10,000 steps per day seems quite far away still, which is funny because it was effortless when I worked at Best Buy and I was still overweight then.<\/p>\n<p>I also have some resistance band exercises I&#8217;ve picked that I can do in my office. I don&#8217;t have the paper handy but I believe it&#8217;s six exercises, three sets of 15 reps each, three days a week. I need to figure out the best way to incorporate them into the day.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those things that should be simplified by moving, as I currently leave the house at 6:05 AM and don&#8217;t get back until 6:35 PM, and I&#8217;m in bed by 9:15. That doesn&#8217;t leave much time. If we were up here, I wouldn&#8217;t have to leave the house until 7:30, I&#8217;d get home by 5:15 and not have to be in bed until 10:45. One way or another, that&#8217;s an extra 2 hours and 50 minutes. I could do an awful lot in that time. I still think we&#8217;re making the right decision in the short term by staying in Albuquerque, but I&#8217;m aware of what I&#8217;m giving up for low rent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever have your stomach bother you so badly that you ended up reconsidering your life choices? 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