A Healthier Me
Reboot | Day 10

Netflix binge watching,
Catching up on all my shows,
Need more exercise.

I finally reached double digits, but it feels like I’ve been on this plan forever. Okay, so maybe I have with a few short breaks here and there. I’m really on day 94, with about 10 cheat days mixed in. And even the cheat days were not too far off plan, so overall I feel very good about my progress. I certainly feel healthier, but I do more to go. And then this brings on thoughts about what 100% achievement looks like, and does such a thing exist?

But I don’t need 100%. I’ll be happy with 80% – 90%. Now I realize everyone’s 100% looks different. My 100% is to be back to my high school self, or even my early 20s. Yes, a most unachievable goal, but if i can get 80% there, that’s a success in my book.

At least it’s Friday, the end of the work week. I did have to pop into the office today to participate in a department meeting (we used an oversized meeting space so that our self-distancing bubbles remained intact), and it was good to see everyone healthy, even though the campus looked deserted with no students or faculty around, and half of the staff is working from home. I managed to get some face-time in and was back home by noontime, and stopped at the grocery store on the way home to get just one thing—chicken. And oh joy, oh joy! The store had only two packages left (needed 2 lbs of chicken thighs for a stew I want to make), and I grabbed one of them! We will be enjoying my favorite on-plan stew in a day or two, right after we finish off the rest of the corned beef. I do want to open a really good bottle of wine to go with it, but for today I am able to resist.

The rest of Friday was fairly uneventful, and these days that’s a great thing!

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