[Did] Leaving my desk at lunch instead of eating at it

My neck and shoulders have been locking up by around 4pm most days for a couple months now, and it took me way too long to notice that’s also the time I’m usually still eating lunch at my desk while answering emails, because it felt more ‘efficient’ than actually stepping away. So for 2 weeks I made myself leave the building at lunch, no phone, no laptop, just a walk for about 15 minutes before coming back to eat if I still needed to. The first few days felt kind of pointless, like I was just pushing work later for no reason, but by the second week the shoulder tension wasn’t showing up until closer to 6, which for me is a real shift. I’m not saying the walk ‘fixed’ anything, the stress at work hasn’t gone anywhere and some days a meeting runs long and I skip it, but having that one stretch where my brain isn’t tracking a task has made the evenings a little easier to come down from. Still figuring out if I can keep it up once it gets colder out. 🌤️