Get Me a Sammich

Day Two has been my kind of day. I spent $170 at Costco on meat, fruits and vegtables only. I wish I had a picture of the fridge, but another roommate, who spent about the same amount as me on nearly exactly the same food item, and I pretty much filled the fridge before the five other people could put there stuff in it. Good times. Fortunately for them, we managed to fill and empty three full gas grills with meat and vegetables in order to clear out some room in the fridge. I grilled four sirloins, ten sausages, two pork tenderloins, and about a pound of vegetables. Another intern Eric did about the same.

While today was spent casually grilling in an effort to get to know all of the new interns that arrived today, I know during the week when we are all busy filling our shifts at MBSC, Eric and I will be able to quickly prepare healthy meals. This will provide us more energy to perform and the time spent cooking can now be used to read, write, talk, and generally get better. More generally, it’s important to take care of these things that you know will come up daily so that you can take care of those things that matter more to you. In other words, while I find cooking pleasurable, I find reading about functional training, talking about anything, or writing about anything more enjoyable than cooking. So what I am doing is maximizing the amount of time interacting with the things I am passionate about. What’s not to like about that?

So what can you take away from this. Cook your food at the beginning of the week for the whole week; listen to audio books or podcasts on walks and car rides; pack your lunch the night before. It’s amazing how much more time you have when you condense some activities you used to do daily into one weekly slot. Take that lesson and run with it.