Bounce back.

I thought it was age that caused it. Maybe it started with the cheese stick and sweetart binge I went on when life starting throwing emotional curves I wasn't prepared for. Stress probably contributed. Put together on a list, the physical problems I've dealt with over the past year look like a checklist of stress symptoms, from minor to severe. Seriously depressing.

It seemed like my ability to "bounce back," whether it be muscles from a good workout or one too many late nights in one week, had slowed down. So not me. I may not be invincible, but I can get pretty close.

Looking back at how life was before the problems surfaced the most consistent characteristics of daily habit were: daily exercise (swimming for 30min. a day, 4-5 days a week plus skating, gym, etc.), sleeping early (8-9 hours per night, cutting out computer and other unimportant things for it), and eating well (pasta, veggies, less meat, fish and sushi, occasional treats, eating ENOUGH but better foods).

Am trying that again this summer, but adding harder cardio, cutting caffeine (ha, it'll cut my budget down, too), and eating fruits. I hate fruits, but they're healthy and feel good to eat in hot weather.

What I want to eat more of:
tomoatoes
broccoli
greens
seasonal fruits
bitter melon
grains (tsampa!)
soups
green tea


So posting this was more or less because I was too lazy to find paper to write my ideas down. Any thoughts of your own?