Okay, maybe everything is a little dramatic, but this has been the shittiest single day of this entire program so far. It all started the night before, on Sunday. If you've been reading my posts you'll probably remember that I have bouts of insomnia and I've been working on trying to sleep more. Well, last night I had one of my worsts, on the back of another night where I couldn't get to sleep.
It started probably because my wife has been working second shift and I've been picking her up from work around 11pm the last two nights. This naturally shifted my clock later I think than I have been sleeping the previous couple of weeks. Then on top of that, when I finally tried to lay down, I just stayed there in bed, awake, for about 2 hours.
Ultimately I got up, puttered around on the computer, then went back to bed sometime past 3am.
Today was supposed to be my workout day, which means I am supposed to get up at 6am to hit the gym. Well, that didn't happen obviously, and as it is, I'm sitting here at work right now feeling brain dead and tired. I really don't want to be here (I want to be sleeping instead!) but there's just nothing for it.
On top of all this, I can't even do my workout today at all because after work I have Japanese class until around 7:15pm and then I have to rush home to take my wife to work (she's doing an overnight shift now) by 8:20pm. Maybe, if I'm lucky, I'll have time to grab my dinner from the fridge and shovel it down before I'm out the door tonight, but I'm still eating past 5pm which I don't like to do.
So, as you can see, today is all sorts of fucked up. I need to figure out how to recover this, or at least prevent this from happening again. There isn't much I can do about having to drive my wife back and forth to work since she doesn't have a license, but I need to put more effort into getting a handle on my sleeping situation. I think I'm going to make a hard and fast rule of no caffeine/stimulant type foods or drinks past 6pm and I'm going to try and cut back during the day as well.
This is going to be harder than you might think, not just because I am addicted to diet soda, but because I quit smoking a couple of years ago and frequently use nicotine gum to curb my smoking cravings. Add those two things to my naturally poor sleeping habits that I've had since a teenager and I've got my work cut out for me.
Anyway, the goal tonight is to be in bed no later than 10pm, up by 6am and to the gym. No caffeine past 6pm. No nicotine gum past 6pm.
MUST SLEEP.
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