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My New Project:

Those of you who know me, understand that I'm a pretty emotional person. Extreme is a word for it. tracie argues that I feel everything in its most extreme form. The Boyfriend, since the beginning, has called me a Fire Cracker. Explosive, I suppose? Ha ha. Well, it's totally true. (AND NO - by admitting this, you are NOT allowed to post SARCASTIC 'duh's' - you KNOW who YOU are.) I've always been ruled by food as well and I'm starting to seriously wonder if there is some sort of serious correlation between these two things. Emotion > Food > Exercise. I know it's common sense that those things are super tied together, but what if - for me - they DEPEND on eachother. Maybe my severely emotionally intense moments are, in fact, driven by something I just ate? Maybe a high sugar content food consumed an hour ago is responsible for the emotional peak I'm currently experiencing (hypothetically - I'm totally in a good stable mood right now)? Or maybe it's the opposite?










So on behalf of my emotions and metabolism, I am going to start a notebook where I can track these things. I think since food does play such an important role in my life (for example: I get so lightheaded when I'm hungry that I'm virtually useless - can't function, emotional extremes, etc.) that it would be intelligent to track everything that I consume. This could be an excellent way to monitor my exercise and activity, mood swings, etc. Initially, I was considering starting up a second website for said project, but the longer I think about it, it will be far easier to have a handy dandy notebook to carry everywhere. But don't worry. For those of you who I know must be SO thrilled by this new project of mine - I will try to do updates on my progress, any connections I'm noticing, etc.

Of course, I haven't bought the notebook yet, but it's coming. Maybe I'll start Monday?

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