But thank God I didn't do it all back when I graduated from undergrad at 20. I could have been a doctor at 24 -- a mere child. I was way too young, both numerically and emotionally, to be a good physician, but I'd have been great at what medical schools like: memorizing shit and doing nothing else but medicine. And maybe I'd have ended up a surgeon.
I started a vascular surgery rotation today and had 7k steps by 8am. It's going to be a pretty cake rotation, but I can see a) what's attractive and fun about surgery b) what great physicians the surgeons are c) how they change going from PGY1 to PGY 5, and not in a good way, and d) how much you really have to devote your life to it.
There's no way I'd want to now. I am enjoying a much healthier work-life balance now than would ever allow me to be a surgeon. Plus, I still want to have kids.
But yeah, got close to having my steps in yesterday. Didn't hit it, because I came home and crashed for a few hours.
Calories out: 2432
Calories in: 1350
Deficit/Surplus: -1082
Mondays are date night for us, whenever possible. It's hard to have date on Monday nights because we're often so exhausted from getting back to the work week, but they're important to make a priority. We knew we'd be exhausted tonight and had decided on going out to a movie. We hadn't seen one in the theatre in ages so headed out to finally see Star Wars: Rogue One, which ended up being an amazing show. Unfortunately for us the theatre had the volume up so loudly that it almost physically hurt to listen to it.
Anyhow, there's a point to my story: I love popcorn. I have an affair with it that is unhealthy probably both emotionally and physically. I even have little enamel popcorn earrings. My other love in life is Slurpeees/Icees/Slushies.
Which makes movie theaters dangerous places to be.
I managed to make it through the whole movie with nothing except a couple mints and a lindor truffle I snuck in via my coat pocket (it was disappointing -- I should have checked the flavor first), which I of course tracked, and no popcorn. NO popcorn. Or a slushee.
I'll take the little wins with the big ones.
Adding Daily Healthy Activities: For Tomorrow
As I've said previously, I have a million ideas of what makes one "healthy" and since it's impossible to add them all at once and probable that adding one at a time will take to long to be effective, I've decided that my daily goal will be to do two "healthy things" a day minimum, in addition to my FitBit goal.These might include meditation, stretching, running, Bible study, journaling, etc.
For example, tomorrow I'm going to try to meditate 2-3 times and do a Bible study. :)
Note: I'm going to be backdating these entries so they show up for 11:59 of the night they apply to.
