The New Kid's Story: 2 Months In

I got swept up in workouts and my job and forgot to write for a week. My wife’s work has already started to ramp up, so she’s doing her workouts at different times than I am, usually.
When her work schedule got nuts before tax season in the past, we were like ships in the night for a couple of months. I’d WANT to help her, but honestly didn’t know how. She used to do all the grocery shopping and laundry and I just kinda tried to stay out of the way until the middle of April. I felt dumb asking her “Are you ok? How can I help?” and her always just saying “I’m fine.”
This year, her stress level is way better (but we’re not into the deep end yet, I know.) BUT I can help a bit more, because I know what we’re supposed to buy at the grocery store. I made a solo run at it last weekend and did okay. I don’t have her willpower, so without her there I got a bag of cookies. Then I beat myself up all the way home and wanted to hide them. I had a couple while I figured out what to do with them (yeah, I know) and then she had a couple when she got home because she was stressed.
I woke up feeling hungover. I was in a crap mood all morning and couldn’t figure out why. I didn’t feel better until I went for a walk at lunch. I figured out: it’s gotta be the sugar. As soon as I got a couple of meals in me, I felt good again. One of the videos in our startup course talked about the “carb roller-coaster” and I really see it now. Carbs on an empty stomach really effect me. No one at Catalyst has ever said “don’t eat carbs”, but Karly told us to eat them with protein and fats, and now I see why.
That’s what prompted me to write this again: I think most people are on the carb roller coaster all the time. I talk to people in the office at 8am, and everyone’s in a pretty good mood. Then at 2pm, wow. It’s like the bottom falls out. Nothing’s getting done. Everyone is cranky. Until I was out of that loop, I didn’t really see it.
It’s hard to explain what “feeling good” is like, because until I started this, I didn’t know that I wasn’t feeling good. I thought I was just feeling normal.
Anyway, I’m way more productive at home and at work now. I’m starting to think about asking for a raise, or even a promotion.
Workouts are great. I got my first rope climb last Monday, and that got me a call from Catalyst on Friday to say “way to go.” I posted it as a Bright Spot in the Facebook group and 30 people congratulated me–I don’t even know some of them yet.
Coming up on my next date with the Inbody (the spaceship scale that tells me my bodyweight.) I almost forgot about it because I’m feeling good. I’m not saying you can’t feel good by going to another gym, but I’ve never seen support like this, or had a clear plan. I was just mostly flailing around at the cheap gym. I’d rather spend some money and make some progress than waste money and time, know what I mean? They should really talk about the accountability and coaching and progressions and the PEOPLE especially here.