Sunday, September 27, 2009

Rock Bottom

I'm officially at my slump. I made it to the peak, but instead of staying there and keeping pace, I've rolled down the hill. Not forward toward my next challenge--I've rolled backward.

I was doing so well at my routine of working out. Cycling four days a week and weights either before or after. Then it came. My first finance test. I was a slave to the library for a week before the test, and had no time to work out. After the test came, it was time for catching up on sleep from my sleepless nights studying.

It has now been a week since my test, and two weeks since I haven't worked out. Along with my workouts went my healthy eating habits- right out the window.

Having no time to workout during test-crunch time also means no time to go to the grocery store to buy healthy foods. This means late night runs to Mother's Pub for some fried goodness, or to the local Taco Hell. It doesn't help when I'm studying at my boyfriend's apartment and his whole freezer is stuffed with pizza rolls and taquitos. I swear it really is harder to resist when the food is right in front of you.

During these stressful times, I believe it's best to keep with your routine- working out and eating healthy- instead of letting it all go.

In an article from Fitness Magazine called Why You Stress and How to Stop, it talks about how stress can make a person slow, lose the ability to think coherently and to calm down. Now these are all pretty important things when it comes to test time.

So for my next exam date, I'm going to continue to work out, as we all know that working out is a great stress reliever. A little break from a 12-hour study session would probably do my body good- let my brain de-fry and re-energize for my next study session.

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