NSV - Instead of getting a cheeseburger and fries when the news started getting to me, I took a 50 min. bike ride. In itself, a victory, but the bigger victory was I didn't even think about getting fast food before I left.

First I love this sub and it's positivity, and the stories and efforts are so inspiring. My little victory today is small, but big for me, I thought I'd share to contribute.

My work had a step competition for October. No prizes, just gold star kind of thing. Just before October I decided I was going to start biking because while I have usually been pretty active (played hockey before COVID, lift weights, long walks around work) after working from home because of COVID I was doing around 1000 steps a day.

The app for the competition they used for this converted efforts on bikes to steps. So every other day I made time for riding, and then the other days I would would take the dog for a decent walk. Part of the reason I dove in so much I was very stressed about the US election. I thought it would be a good distraction, and kept me from mentally spiraling (something I can do a lot). I also got a lot of gold stars which was nice (no sarcasm, really like small rewards no matter how silly).

Fast forward to today, seems like a lot of dark stuff is going on. It was really getting to me. I had ridden yesterday, but it is my favorite past time right now and thought, "Hey, just go for a ride, you'll feel better, and put things in perspective." 54 minutes later (a route that would have literally killed me on Oct 1, and today I didnt break a sweat in jeans today) I felt relieved, and seeing my neighbors doing there thing really brought me back down to earth. 30 minutes later I thought, "I would have gotten a double cheeseburger, a huge fry, and a giant diet soda and ate my stress, and then I'd feel bad about two things." One day at a time still and forever, but for the first time in a long time I'm not running to food to make me feel better.

Thank y'all for all your positivity and hard wok, it really does brighten my day and get me motivated.

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