FitBit 30 -- Day 2

In a lot of ways, waiting 9 years after undergrad for medical school feels like I wasted an entire decade of my life.  There are a lot of things I won't get to do/enjoy during my 30s -- the prime of my life -- because I am doing med school and residency.

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.

5k a day -- Day 14

I took my boards today.  400 questions.  9 hours total.  I don't have much more to say, because just mentioning it has me exhausted.

We went to Presque Isle park to walk on the beach and catch the sunset.  It was beautiful, but not conducive to a 3 mile walk, though we did walk almost a mile.  The sand there is deep and rough, and it was painful to walk in.

See how rough the sand is?  And how much I need a pedicure?

I tried again at the hotel -- another lady walking on the treadmill (well, alternating that and yelling at her kids who were in the pool), and the other equipment still broken, so yet another biking 5k for me.

(Side note:  Really, Hilton Garden Inn?  2 broken exercise machines and a broken hot tub?  Sad panda, and since these amenities were some of the reasons I picked your hotel, unhappy-money-panda, too.)

Can't wait to get back to the "real thing", believe it or not.

The 5k:

Yeah.

Yay bike.

The Workout:

66 squats

90 seconds plank

23 modified push ups

My arms seem to alternate days.  Yesterday's 22 MPUs were miserable to do.  Today, the 23 weren't bad.  Who knows?

I'm spent, emotionally, physically, mentally.  So that's all.

5k a day -- Day 13

Gonna be a short post today.  In less than 12 hours I'll be knee-deep in the last hurdle between me and being a doctor.

Got to my hotel today (I find it important to have a quiet, controlled, cleaned-for-you environment before these things) and studied a bit.  Then headed down to their gym for my 5k.  They have two treadmills, one elliptical, and and a stationary bike.  The first treadmill was taken by some lady walking, so I hopped on the other treadmill.  It was out of order.  So I hopped on the treadmill.  Not only was it adjusted for a very tall person, but the resistance was broken on it.  So, stationary bike it was.

I felt guilty knowing I was biking and not walking/running the 5k, and I knew I'd be done a lot faster than usual, so I bumped the resistance up to 10 and made sure I'd be working hard for the whole time.   I have to say, my legs and butt definitely felt it, even more than when doing my squats.

iPhone apps are not handling the iOS 10 beta well, so I'm in the process of rolling back to iOS 9 for now . . . unfortunately, until that's done, MayMyRun is still no-go.

The 5k:

Not even gonna list times/splits, cause it's not fair.

Look, you can even see my practice questions, courtesy of Combank

The Workout:

64 squats (my knees are killing me today)

85 seconds plank

22 modified push ups