Posts Tagged ‘ stress relief ’

I Need To Run

11/11/2009
I Need To Run

I’m sitting here at 10:30 at night finishing up on the computer after a stressful day, a blog class and playing around with my Twitter design for way too long. It has been a sitting kind of day. I’m a magazine editor by day and I can end up in front of the computer or the TV at night for lengthy periods of time as well. Until a year ago, that was my exercise. But not anymore. Now I run. I swim. I roll around on big balls. I bike. And I like it. No, scratch that, I love it. Not always when I’m doing it, but around it. Exercise makes me feel strong. Exercise makes me feel focused. Exercise really helps me to relax. Exercise makes me feel like a bad-ass. Exercise helps me to not reach for the wrong foods when I’m really stressed out. Who knew...

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Running Away… From Stress

08/18/2009

I have a large family. Four brothers and a sister. Both of my parents passed away quite some time ago, and with everything we’ve been through, we (my four brothers, sister and I) have stayed very close. In fact, my sister is my very dearest friend and we talk on the phone two or three times a day. She lives in Virginia. I’m in New York, close to two of my brothers. My other brothers are in North Carolina and Florida. One of my brothers was having a crisis last night/this morning and sent a text message that had the rest of us scrambling to reach him and reach each other at 5:30 am. When we finally did reach him, everything was fine, but the whole situation left me kind of stressed out. I live in a pretty constant state of stress anyway with things currently going on in...

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Back to the Grind

04/27/2009

After my race last Saturday, I took some time off from working out and struggled with the right food choices. But I’m back on track today. Post-race, I had a scheduled colonoscopy for this past Friday. I was very nervous, couldn’t eat anything but liquids for a couple of days and decided that since by the time I felt like getting back to the gym, it was Wednesday and then I wouldn’t be able to work out on Thursday or Friday, I would just take a week’s vacation from the whole thing. I got to sleep in and that was good. But I was really stressed because of the test (which was fine, and I was relieved to know that everything is as it should be) and maybe if I’d gotten to the gym I would have decreased some of that stress. This morning, however, I knew that if...

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