LEIDEN's CalorieKing blog
Friday, Oct 9 2009 - sleep, scales, and studies - the battle rages on
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Every Friday I have a 7am class.
I do not like waking up early.
I am not a morning person.
To rectify this, I simply stay up all night. Usually between Thursday into Friday, I am awake for roughly 25-26 hours before I get any sleep, and on a normal Friday - the amount of sleep is limited. Maybe 3-4 hours because I work Friday nights.
I know it's probably not the healthiest thing for my body, but it has to happen. We're at the half way point in the semester already (which blows my mind by the way), which means I only have to do this for 8 more Fridays. That isn't too bad, and I've learned a valuable lesson.
Do not schedule morning classes when you are not a morning person.
The kicker is, the professor is the only one I have this semester who actually pays attention to attendance. Yet I haven't opened my textbook once, I haven't taken a note, and I have a 97% at midterm. So really, I don't even need to be there - but I do or automatic withdrawals kick in. 8 more days of this nonsense is all.
The hardest part is figuring out what to do to keep myself awake. I could go for a real late night jog or something I guess. Just to keep the heart rate up and burn some calories. Maybe next week I'll give that a try.
Anywho. Food Yesterday was pretty decent. A little more than I wanted to be at, but still close enough to 1200 to keep me happy. I think I'm going to start trying to cut out some small calories here and there. Changing up my coffee creamer for one (I know I don't use the best kind, but it tastes good), and than I dunno. I'll just have to pay a little more attention and see where I can kick out some extra ones.
I have a feeling today will be a good day for food as well. I've already logged a little under 200 calories since I had a protein bar with a little bit of peanut butter on it at around 3:30am. I'm about to make myself "breakfast," which is a staple of mine. Mini bagel, 1 egg, 1 turkey sausage patty and coffee - I like it. Then when I get back from class I'll probably have a protein shake than get some zzzz's before work. I haven't really decided on dinner yet, I'm thinking some sushi but I haven't quite made up my mind. I probably wont work out today just because of the lack of sleep and having to work. I work a retail job to keep the bills paid while going to school - so at least I'll be on my feet moving around for 5 or so hours tonight. Won't be much but its better than nothing.
Setting a date for my body lift on Monday. I'm not sure if I'm stoked about it or apprehensive to go back under the knife, but it needs to get done. I cannot stand the way I look with all this skin sagging.
I did an unofficial weigh in today, I'm at 176lbs. I say this is unofficial because I do my best to stay off the scale but once a month. You see, I goto the nutritionist once a month and get weighed there, on their super sophisticated scale that gives me all kinds of information - plus it keeps me from weighing myself EVERY day.
I really didn't even want to get on the scale today, but it was there and I was there.
We had a stand off and the inanimate object was victorious.
I'm happy it did.
I do not like waking up early.
I am not a morning person.
To rectify this, I simply stay up all night. Usually between Thursday into Friday, I am awake for roughly 25-26 hours before I get any sleep, and on a normal Friday - the amount of sleep is limited. Maybe 3-4 hours because I work Friday nights.
I know it's probably not the healthiest thing for my body, but it has to happen. We're at the half way point in the semester already (which blows my mind by the way), which means I only have to do this for 8 more Fridays. That isn't too bad, and I've learned a valuable lesson.
Do not schedule morning classes when you are not a morning person.
The kicker is, the professor is the only one I have this semester who actually pays attention to attendance. Yet I haven't opened my textbook once, I haven't taken a note, and I have a 97% at midterm. So really, I don't even need to be there - but I do or automatic withdrawals kick in. 8 more days of this nonsense is all.
The hardest part is figuring out what to do to keep myself awake. I could go for a real late night jog or something I guess. Just to keep the heart rate up and burn some calories. Maybe next week I'll give that a try.
Anywho. Food Yesterday was pretty decent. A little more than I wanted to be at, but still close enough to 1200 to keep me happy. I think I'm going to start trying to cut out some small calories here and there. Changing up my coffee creamer for one (I know I don't use the best kind, but it tastes good), and than I dunno. I'll just have to pay a little more attention and see where I can kick out some extra ones.
I have a feeling today will be a good day for food as well. I've already logged a little under 200 calories since I had a protein bar with a little bit of peanut butter on it at around 3:30am. I'm about to make myself "breakfast," which is a staple of mine. Mini bagel, 1 egg, 1 turkey sausage patty and coffee - I like it. Then when I get back from class I'll probably have a protein shake than get some zzzz's before work. I haven't really decided on dinner yet, I'm thinking some sushi but I haven't quite made up my mind. I probably wont work out today just because of the lack of sleep and having to work. I work a retail job to keep the bills paid while going to school - so at least I'll be on my feet moving around for 5 or so hours tonight. Won't be much but its better than nothing.
Setting a date for my body lift on Monday. I'm not sure if I'm stoked about it or apprehensive to go back under the knife, but it needs to get done. I cannot stand the way I look with all this skin sagging.
I did an unofficial weigh in today, I'm at 176lbs. I say this is unofficial because I do my best to stay off the scale but once a month. You see, I goto the nutritionist once a month and get weighed there, on their super sophisticated scale that gives me all kinds of information - plus it keeps me from weighing myself EVERY day.
I really didn't even want to get on the scale today, but it was there and I was there.
We had a stand off and the inanimate object was victorious.
I'm happy it did.
1 comments so far.
1.
a decade ago
Not only are you on your way, you've arrived. I say this without an ounce of condescension, "well done." It sounds as if you're priming yourself for a lifetime of healthy decisions and behaviors, and if you can just figure out how to get some sleep into the mix, you'll be golden.
by ROSERENE