Diet: WIN! (fruit, vegetables, moderate added sugar)
Exercise: PASS (walking, occasional misc exercise, rest)
Sleep: IMPROVE(D) (stabilizing...)
Mindfulness: PASS (meditation)
Love and Support: WIN! (visiting with friends, visiting with family, French, Toastmasters)
The check-ins are slowly creeping back into the pass/win category in the post-Fallout 4 apocalypse. My sleep is still oscillating between good healthy rest and staying up too late, but the morning routine is stabilizing, and slowly I should be able to get those bedtimes under control as a result. Still more work to go, though.
Diet has been solid for a while now. I've been eating quite a lot of vegetables, and thanks to mandarin orange season, eating fruit is really easy. They're nature's version of candy: pre-packaged, sugary, and convenient to snack on.
I'm still resting my core and continue to feel better as a result. I still have some discomfort in my ribcage now and again, but the overall symptoms are much reduced. So I'm going to keep this strategy going for a while before starting to re-introduce those core exercises. In the meantime, I'm still walking and doing the occasional random standing exercise, like kicks and leg stretches.
I've managed to incorporate a little bit of meditation recently as well, pulling my Mindfulness score up into a passing grade--and more importantly, it seems to help stabilize my emotions. I've noticed that meditation has been tricky since my thoughts are so turbulent, but that's pretty normal. I find when I meditate more regularly, the turbulence quiets down and I'm able to get deeper into the meditation. But that calming effect is the first stage.
I saw my family yesterday for lunch. They had a car appointment near the city so we met in Legal and then ate at a small diner in Morinville. Add to that the friends I visited with over the weekend and the socialization from French class and Toastmasters and it's a solid win in the socialization category.
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