Springing Forward

This is one of my favorite Daylight Saving Time jokes…

I actually transitioned really well on Saturday night. That probably had a lot to do with the allergy meds I took at 8:30pm. I slept like a rock for like 10 hours. Last night was a different story. I don’t know what was going on, but I could not stay asleep.

 I need to check the sensitivity on my Fitbit, because I was awake during those “restless” times. Needless to say, I’m dragging a bit today. And it doesn’t even have anything to do with the time change!  Oh well.

I’m still doing well with my early morning workouts (as you can see because of the time stamp on the screenshot). My workout partner gave up around Thanksgiving, but at that point I had made it such a habit it didn't matter I was by myself. 

Lately, I have been using that alone time to listen to podcasts. I have become obsessed with listening to sermons from Elevation church. Their senior pastor, Steven Furtick, just has such a way of getting the message across. I love it. Plus, I've discovered it really helps me put my focus in the right place at the beginning of the day. Win win win. 

Speaking of winning, I'm finally starting to see a difference in the mirror. I also finally changed my eating habits, so that helped quite a bit. You can't out-exercise a bad diet, right? I realized that it's an actual possibility for me to be at goal before next Valentine's Day. Somehow I had it stuck in my head I had close to 100 pounds to lose. I don't know where that came from, but it is not even close to the truth. Slight case of body dysmorphia going on in my head there! I need to work on that. 

Rest

Every once in a while I need to be reminded to slow down, take time to rest, and just relax. Today was one of those days. I have been feeling exhausted since... well, probably since Thanksgiving, really. I've been going going gone all through the holidays and apparently not sleeping well, and it finally caught up with me. I think God decided he'd had enough of my not listening to his commands and knocked me on my butt today. Especially since it was the Sabbath. I have slept nearly all day. I got up at 8:30 this morning to tell mom I didn't feel well enough to drive to church. I pulled up the internet campus on the computer and watched services from home.

Thank goodness for technology

Then I promptly went to sleep from 10-2, ate an orange, slept til 7, then took a shower. I took the shower hoping it would make me feel better so I could mom on an errand. Ha! I was so exhausted from my shower that I didn't even have the energy to get dressed. At that point I decided to get my shift covered for tomorrow. I'm feeling better, but I think another day of resting will help. Sadly enough, I keep thinking of all the things I can do tomorrow since I don't have to work. No! I need to rest! We'll see what actually happens.

I know my posts haven't been very significant lately. I'll work on it. But right now, I'm going to get back to resting. Good night!

Fits of Sleep

Mr. Wonderful got me a new Fitbit for Christmas! I kind of figured he had, but I wasn't sure until I opened it. Anyway, last year he got me a Fitbit Zip, but this year he upgraded me to a Force... I'll try not to run it over with my car. I'm super excited about it and have been trying to get all of my steps in each day. But additionally, this Fitbit tracks my sleep! I think that's what I was most excited about. I haven't been sleeping well since... I don't know when, but it started getting really bad in November. I wanted to see if I noticed any patterns in my sleep cycle that I could address. Really I thought maybe a neighbor was leaving early for work or something. This is my reading from the past week.

I forgot to log Sunday... oops. 

No real pattern that I can see yet. Friday night looks odd because I set the sleep mode, then turned it off to go do something. I don't remember resetting it around midnight though, so I don't know what happened there And apparently I slept like crap last night. Less than 5 hours total sleep? No wonder I feel exhausted most of the time. I'm going to keep tracking my sleep for a while and see what I can come up with. I may have to look into cutting back on my caffeine in the afternoons or something. It's never bothered me before, but something's gotta give here! Speaking of sleep, I guess I should head that way. Rest well!