Friday, March 20, 2020

Trying to take advantage of pandemic WFH time

I finally got my work laptop at the end of the day Wednesday, which means I am now working from home and hopefully not contributing to the spread of the coronavirus.

I haven't been sleeping and I have been stress eating, so my goal is to take the extra time from not commuting or bothering to put real work clothes, and use that toward general fitness. So far, my schedule these past two days has looked like:
  • Wake up at a reasonably early hour (6:10-6:20 a.m. ish)
  • Take both dogs out for a nice long walk — I hit almost an hour both days
  • Healthy breakfast
  • Morning of work
  • Take both dogs out for a nice long walk — 40-50 minutes
  • Eat a healthy lunch while jumping back into work
  • Afternoon of work
  • Run followed by online barre class yesterday, dryland swimming drills followed by PT today
Dog walks from today and yesterday. My dogs are the big winners from this situation.
What I was NOT able to accomplish was getting to bed at a decent hour. I made a healthy dinner yesterday, but today's consisted of fried fish and waffle fries cooked in lard.

But overall, so far, so good. I've only been a part of the work from home mafia for two days, but I've already gotten in 11.5 miles of dog walking and a couple of extra workouts. If I can burn off all the extra calories I've been taking in from stress eating, I'll consider that a success.



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