Retraining the brain part 2

I've forced myself into more exercise this week, with 20-30 minutes of digging in the garden Monday and Tuesday, and 45(!) minutes of good sweaty ping pong. By digging in the garden I mean actual digging, trying to remove all the grass that's grown out over the sidewalk in a thick mat over 6-8 inches from the edge of the sidewalk. Hopefully trimmed back it will look nicer. Also I want to put brick along the edge of the walkway from the driveway to the front door for a similar reason. Not nearly done with the walkway, and maybe half done with the sidewalk, but not pushing myself to do everything at once and overwhelm myself. Have to shower after the gardening from working up a sweat digging. Four consecutive days of 20+ minutes of excercise. Yesterday I took a 15 minute lunch walk and played hard at ping pong for another 45, quite proud of myself for that. Need to keep all this up.

Have not napped durin the day for two weeks now. Yesterday I had what most people would say was normal energy level. First time in I don't know how long for me. I've done two things over the past two weeks, I stopped eating cereal for breakfast (it was a healthy cereal, not sugary stuff), and switched to yogurt and a piece of fruit, with a yogurt/fruit/granola parfait from the work cafeteria for a morning snack. And this week I added the additional excercise.

Spoke with my boss, he's happy with how I'm doing at work. He doesn't know about the depression, but he does know I was having a lot of personal stress about 6 months ago.