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10/22/2026

Ever have one of those days where everything that went wrong seems to erase everything that went right?

I've had a few recently. I can start the day making healthy choices, but after a difficult evening, I sometimes convince myself the whole day was a loss.

And that's when I'm most tempted to fall back into old habits.

I've been thinking about how sports coaches evaluate a loss. They recognize what went wrong, but they also look for the things their team did well.

I'm going to try doing the same for myself.

Three things that went well. That's all I want to acknowledge, even on a difficult day.

I don't know yet whether it'll help me make better choices, but I think it's worth trying.

More on this in my latest Substack article, Don't Let One Loss Become a Losing Streak. Link in comments.

10/15/2026

I didn't get to the gym on Monday or Tuesday, but I took our four-month-old for an hour-long walk so my wife could get to an appointment.

Later, I didn't eat as well as I'd wanted. It would have been easy to let that decide how I felt about the whole day.

But I still got my single. The evening didn't undo the walk with my son.

After a few rough days, I tend to expect tomorrow to make up for all of them. I'm trying to remember that one day doesn't have to complete the comeback. It can give the next day something to build on.

I wrote more about this in “Just Get on Base,” on Substack. Link in comments.

10/08/2026

10/01/2026

Last Monday, I checked my blood sugar and told myself I needed to get things back on track. Again.

Most mornings I mean it. But by evening, when I am stressed and exhausted, I can end up making the same choices I wanted to change that morning.

There have been good days too. I think that is part of what makes this pattern easier to accept. I have not stopped trying, and there is usually a reason things went off track.

But when the same difficult evening happens several times a week, I have to question whether I can keep treating it as an exception.

Last month, I wrote about having zero tolerance for leaving my blood sugar unmanaged. Rereading it made me uncomfortable because I could not say I had followed through as much as I intended to.

I am not expecting perfect decisions. I want to stop letting another rough night become permission to put my health off until tomorrow.

I wrote more about this in Some Risks Need Zero Tolerance. Link in comments.

09/24/2026

Last night, my wife was ordering Jollibee and asked if I wanted anything.

I had eaten dinner around 4 p.m., but later that night I smoked, got hungry again, and decided I was going to eat something.

This is usually where things can go sideways for me. Once I break the plan, it becomes easy to say screw it and make a few more bad decisions.

But I turned down Jollibee, made eggs and cheese with crackers, and stayed out of the chocolate stash.

It was not the night I had planned, but one decision did not have to ruin the rest of them.

With how stressful life has been lately, I am realizing I need to spend less time expecting perfect decisions and get better at making reasonable ones when things do not go according to plan.

I wrote more about this in this week’s article. Link in comments.

09/17/2026

“I often associate risk with fear.”

That’s what I wrote during a writing exercise last week.

But the more I thought about it, the less it made sense. I moved to South Korea without speaking Korean. I’ve changed careers three times, bought a home two weeks after getting laid off, and became a father again in my late 40s.

I’ve taken plenty of risks, and I’m grateful for many of them.

Then I thought about a risk I’ve been far too comfortable accepting.

My blood sugar has been much higher than I want it to be. I know the long-term risks. I know what has worked for me before. Yet I’ve kept telling myself I can turn things around whenever I decide to.

Maybe I don’t need to be less afraid of risk. I need to pay more attention to which risks I’m willing to accept.

I wrote more about that in this week’s article. Link in comments.

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