Stress Hurts In More Ways Than One

I have a confession to make. Last night I ate 6 Hershey Chocolate truffles. Can you believe that? 6! And some M&Ms this morning. Yuk.

But my guilt motivated me to get on the treadmill and run 2.10 miles today and I felt so great afterwards. I am also going to do one of my yoga DVD's tonight before I go to bed.

Stress levels have been kind of high lately, with my promotion test and all. After tomorrow I'll have that test off my back, and I can better focus on other things. I need to focus on my runs more, because my next career stressor will be my fitness test in May. There's always something, right?

I think stress has a lot to do with how hard I work out. When I am stressed it's harder to get myself motivated at all to work out, but once I do, I tend to overdue it and hurt like heck for the next few days. I am really working on finding a balance.

Little Diver, I know you are going through a super stressful time right now too. Write about it, and get it off your chest! Let me know what's going on so we can help each other feel better! Use the stress to push you to succeed. We can do this together.