Rock the Boat

With a new job, an 18 months old baby and a completely new life started after getting married and moving into a new house, I thought that things will eventually become stable and routine will take over our lives. A routine that I always struggled to obtain but never was able to get hold of.
Anyway, a weird type of satisfying routine eventually settled in and just when I was ready to realize how comfortable I was getting with it, something came up to shake it off all over again.

I went for a general blood work last week and was hit by the fact that my Triglyceride levels were soaring up through the roof. Checked with my Dr. yesterday and a new shuffle in my way of life was dictated to me.
No more waking up at 6:30am anymore! This will have to be at 5:30am in order to have a 50 minute walk before showering and heading to work at 7am (dropping my kid in daycare on my way no later than 7:30am). Oh, did I mention that I have to take a 0% carbohydrate breakfast as well before leaving home? (that is mainly a fiber concentrated cereal that doesn't taste right which needs to be taken without milk cause I am Lactose intolerant).
In Brief, in addition to the exercise I will be stuck with a Low Carb, 5 meal a day, diet without a single grain of sugar allowed. All that for 2 months and then a re-test.

As a result we'll be spending plenty of time in the kitchen preparing the 5 no carb meals a day and getting to bed at 9:30 in the evening in order to get some sleep (did I mention I am insomniac too?)
So with a kid around that drains most of your remaining energy and fills most of your relaxing time with his 'bezerkness', the kind of life that I was trying to establish will have to be drastically changed.

When people used to say that a stupid blood work shuffled everything in their lives I used to laugh at them and consider that nothing can be that dramatic. You can always recover in a way or another. But "at what cost" is the question I never thought of. Well, now I realize how something as stupid as Triglyceride can rock your boat in a way you have never imagined. So my advice to you is:
"Don't get above 30, don't get kids and definitely don't do any blood works"

Getting older sucks (you don't need me to tell you that) and I can't help getting reminded of the Baz Luhrmann song "Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen". Check it out. It is the type of song that you get to appreciate its message the more older you get. Now that is sad.