Danseur Ignoble: Weaksauce
We failed to eat dinner tonight (long story involving the complications of filling ADHD prescription), and my blood sugar tanked somewhere in the middle of barre. I held it together almost to the end of class, but my chaînes weren’t great.
I should know myself well enough by now to prevent this from happening: energy bar in the dance bag; juice if a real crisis occurs. Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Figured out I’ve been cheating during barre stretch: not doing anything wrong, just not working the rotation and flexibility as hard as I can. So I worked on that.
I am definitely not a Squid anymore. The arms are Doing Their Thing.
Now, if the brain will just follow suit…
Posted on 2015/03/02, in balllet and tagged ballet, low blood sugar. Bookmark the permalink. 9 Comments.
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“Failing to plan is planning to fail”. I love that! Of course in the hands of an OCD survivor that can get out of control really fast but it’s still a great axiom.
It’s definitely a favorite of mine — even though I’m horrible at planning. Maybe someday they’ll develop a technology to balance out really impulsive people like me with OCD folk… 😉
haha glad to hear about the squid
Asher, you’re human. Thank goodness I’m not the only one that misses my A-game every now and then. We simply have to forgive ourselves and pledge that tomorrow is a fresh beginning.
Excellent point! Likewise, being hypoglycemic and clunky in this class will make me feel all spiffy and awesome by comparison extra time!
Digging the name change! I have so been there are on the forgetting to eat (and on the ADHD Rx filling hassles). Just buy a box of Cliff bars and throw it in the dance bag… just try to remember not to leave half eaten, semi-wrapped bars in there when you get home. Who does that? (hangs head in shame)
Thanks! It seemed like an obvious choice one I thought if it, of course 😀 Good is about the Cliff bars — they’re often on sale around here, too.
You’re not alone on the half-eaten bar front. In my bike-racing days, I once came home from a training ride overcooked and proceeded to launder a half-eaten Payday bar with my Jersey o.O
And is it just me, or have they designed the ADHD-rx process to be as difficult as possible for, like, people with ADHD?
*good idea
Ha! Yes!