We took a last minute mini-cation this week. Went and visited some family and spent lots of time being us together. I missed my WI this morning but as much as I journal and exercised this week, the home scale read the same. So I was slightly miffed. I will have to see what happens next week.
I have lots of exercise coming up this week. I'm going back to work (I've been laid off for a month) which means an extra 3 miles a day of walking. We have what is called release week at the gym, this means new music and new choreography for classes. So I'm teaching 4 times next week as opposed to my once, its loads of fun! The other thing is I signed up for my online 1/2 marathon training which starts this coming week as well. It has me running 5 days a week! I'm not sure how it will work, the last time I tried to run 5 days a week, it was excruciating. I was in pain constantly. I may have to adjust to 4 times a week. We shall see how it goes. Lighter and stronger...I may be ok in the long run (ha! no pun intended).
A busy week to come indeed. I hope I can survive.
Vent:
On another side, sleep oh sleep. I cannot sleep through the night and it leaves me exhausted. I do stay up late, 11pm to midnight and my kids STILL wake through the night once or twice for each. My oldest wakes up between 5 and 6 am, and honestly its hard. Than on the days that they both actually sleep all night I wake up 2-4X, its crazy. I know this does not help in my efforts to lose weight, but how do you get everything done before 11pm to go to bed early to be able to function so early? One day I will figure it all out (or my kids will like sleeping in, lol)
Anyway toodles for tonight.
5 comments:
Hi there..Just wanted to say, I totally relate to the sleep. Oh my. I have two younger ones, ages 6 and 8, and every single night of my life one of them wakes me up either in the middle of the night, or at like 5 am. Seriously, it's getting old! I am a night owl too. Sleep is so important. I really need to work on this as it's so important to weight loss.
You have my empathy!
Julie
Great to hear that you're going back to work! So much exercise ahead of you....the pounds are gonna melt off in no time!
I know all about the kids waking up in the night. My 17mth old wakes up, and cries for NO reason...well maybe it's a bad dream etc. Honestly I've started "ignoring" him... usually he falls back to sleep on his own after a minute or two. (it isn't always easy letting him cry). About once a week I DO have to go in and comfort him...guess I can't totally neglect him! LOL
Sleep is so elusive sometimes...but so badly needed. Doesn't seem fair!!!
Fingers crossed for a good week of sleep ahead!
Ann
Sleep is such a battle. Sometimes I feel like if I could just get the sleep I need, everything else would be so much easier.
Ugh, I can relate to the sleep thing. My youngest has always been a poor sleeper. I can remember many nights that I was up with her from 12 a.m. to 4 a.m. about 3 times a week. It was the pits. But, if I can offer any consolation...it did get better. She is 7 now and finally sleeps through the night (most nights). She is the kind of kid that just doesn't require a lot of sleep and the tip that worked the best for us is waking her up every day at the same exact time. It was hard at first b/c when you've had a night of crappy sleep, you just want to let them sleep whenever and how ever! But, we stuck to a strict schedule - in bed by 9:15 p.m. and up by 7 a.m.and not a minute after (I swear 10 extra minutes would screw everything up and she wouldn't sleep right!) After about 2 weeks, she got in sync and stopped getting up throughout the night.
Hang in there! I know it's hard!
You have my sympathy. I cannot function any more with little sleep. Your kids will grow out of it, but it is hard in the mean time. Does your husband do middle of the nights?
I say go to bed earlier and let the housework slide!
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