I feel like an old Windows PC with a blue screen of death. Reboot gets it going. Often or most times. I have not written for a while. From September the 13th to Halloween. Scary to scary. With even the scarier US elections going on today. Thankfully, this post will make it before the results are known. That is for another day.
It begs the question why the “Reboot”? Why does a grown man who is nearing the wrong side of 60 needs a reboot at all?
Motivation and health issues all my life. The body and mind that keeps changing leading to retrofitting required to practices, routine, and to structure.
Addiction to food. Live to eat rather than eat to live. Cravings drive me.
Just a few months ago, I had an active exercise routine walking a lot from April through to September and then the weather turned. Fall and winter patterns have emerged putting a dent in my walking.
My recent trip in October to India and Spain put a pause to my routine - coupled with sleep challenges from time zone changes, travel, food changes, etc.
Every trip to India in the last few years I have put on weight each time without fail. And some of those have refused to come off. A cumulative addition of over 20 pounds over nearly 3 years.
There we are… reboot. Not necessarily for everything in life - that might be good after all, but there are portions that keep going on through external motivations like work.
The next fews months need active action, new routines, and sustainable food practices to stablise some of the above and make some accretive inroads.