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Being On Call – a Binge Trap

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Friday, February 11, 2011 at 8:13 AM filed under Diet & Nutrition postings

Last night was my last night of being on call, and the phone rang and woke me up at 2am with a technical issue in Mumbai.  I staggered to my computer and struggled for over an hour to fix the problem.  I managed to fall asleep again for a little while after that, and when my alarm woke me up this morning, I was in Exhaustion Hell.

 

I was too tired to make a smoothie.  I got a fast food breakfast and two packs of Twizzlers instead.  Today, my Diet Tracker is a Binge Tracker again.  But it’s going to be honest.  Tonight, I am finally free from the on call phone, and I’m going straight from work to the grocery store.

 

My next on-call week is in March, and I will be prepared.  I will make sure I have plenty of healthy but delicious food in my house and lunches for work.  I will find a way to exercise.  I will make early bedtimes a priority, especially since I can’t predict if that damn phone will ring and wake me up.

 

But for right now, my priority is surviving the day without binging my way into a heart attack or falling asleep at my desk.  I will make it.  And tomorrow will begin a new day of better eating and exercise.  I will not let this job kill me.

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