Health in Spite of You - Exhale Foundation

Sometimes I'm healthy intentionally, and sometimes, rarely, my body is healthy in spite of my best/worst efforts to prove otherwise. Yesterday, for whatever reason, I found myself stressed out by school, by my degree, by doubts I have concerning my future career and finances and children and where to live and what to do and what to eat and whether I'll get to live abroad and whether we should buy an apartment next year or keep renting and whether I should go on the market next fall to become a college professor or not...you get the idea.

As a result, I found myself editing a dissertation chapter and absentmindedly eating--chocolates. Yeah. Not so ideal. By the time I was on page 25 of chapter 3, I had eaten 11 little chocolate balls. ELEVEN. And of course I can't really make the excuse that this ingestion was all sub-conscious. Obviously I like chocolate, I like eating chocolate, and I was carelessly eating a ton of it.

But I had vowed to myself that I was going to get a run in before it got completely dark--this was in the late afternoon/early evening--and so I dragged myself and my ipod mini outside to go what I thought would be a sluggish three miles, my standard distance if I'm not going long. Surprisingly, I had a great run. I must admit that I felt a little weird, and it was probably all of the sugar, but I checked my watch after the first mile and after the last and I had gone very quickly. A race strategy? Probably not. A gift? Definitely.