East Campus

With one week left in "month one: exercise" I found the East Campus loop for running. So nice. And only 4 blocks from my house (I just moved last weekend, so woot!) I will say this: life events keep happening and preventing me from implementing my lifestyle change. And I'm lucky that my lifestyle change is just for a project. It's something that I can skip if I have to because I need to pack or move or study more. For my patients (past, present, future) I'm sure that they cannot skip out on their lifestyle change. For them, it's more serious. It's something that they need to do to maintain their health and wellbeing. For the diabetic, not maintaining that lifestyle change of reducing sugar and having daily exercise can have serious consequences. For the heart failure patient with hypertension, eating the biggie size french fries can really push them over the edge in terms of their heart failure and symptoms. For me, not running just means I feel guilty and edgy because I haven't worked off my stress and tension. Big deal. I'll survive it. But it's good to know and recognize that my changes are good but not necessary for my health while the changes for my patients are necessary for their health. Hopefully throughout this project, I'll learn new ways of motivating myself and thus will have ways to motivate my patients.