Hmm. Yeah that’s weird. I seem to work the opposite way. I used to live on 5-6 hours max, until after I hit my mid-30s and decided I need at least 7, if not 8. But having quit most carbs and increasing my fat intake has amped up my energy a lot. I’m only tired when it’s bed time. Or like yesterday, when my cold was its roughest. I bounce out of bed. I get UP from my desk and go do housework because I feel like it. And it’s not just the weight loss (I’ve weighed this much in the past). My whole metabolic state is renewed and my internal levels are normalized (blood pressure, blood glucose, cholesterol, thyroid, etc.). That plays a big part.
I am up at 5 AM everyday. I’m at gym by 5:15 -5:30 AM. ( even though I’m working from home and can sleep in). My inner clock is set for that time , I guess.
I go to sleep at 11 or 12 PM.
The only difference now? I can nap at home during the day. lol I have been taking naps for twenty or thirty minutes too.
Ugh, so glad I don’t need to get up at the crack of dawn. I’m low-maintenance. I can be ready for work by 9-ish if I’m up by 7:30-8, that includes showering/dressing, having made and eaten breakfast and checked G+ lol. Most of the time I can get away with it all being fast because I wear easy clothes that aren’t fussy and breakfast is ready in less then 3 minutes since I zap a serving in the micro of whatever breakfast dishes I made batches of over the weekend to last all week (quiches, bacon, sausage, chop and wash broccoli, coffee ready to go in the maker the night before, etc.).
Gabrielle M. I was awaken this morning by my own near-choking (I’m sure you can guess what I was choking on. Gross, I know). Anyway, I felt great yesterday all day, and it seems like it gets worse overnight. I drank a cup of broth again for breakfast, and it felt better. I had to go to Walgreen’s though, and succumb to the cold med aisle, because the lungs-on-fire cough would not go away, and I kept coughing up more gunk. I got some Alka-Seltzer Plus cold fizzy tablets and sugar-free cough drops, and it’s 90% better.
Oh no. Have you ever considered a Neti-Pot with a saline solution to flush out your sinus congestion?
I suffer from sinus trouble in the Spring and Fall. I use a Neti-Pot . I can’t stand to choke on sinus drainage. Gag.
I would also suggest propping yourself up in bed at night with pillows. It might keep you from having that congestion settle into your lungs as easily. ( I prop myself up in bed during my sinus seasons and it seems to help me from gagging on drainage that happens at night).
If these meds you bought don’t loosen you up enough I would suggest mucinex ( my husband swears by that cough medicine)
Keep drinking your water. Drink some hot tea since the warmth seems to soothe you.
Poor girl. I hope it loosens up more before you go to bed tonight!
The Alka-Seltzer fizzy cold tablets help A LOT. They’re basically aspirin with decongestant and fizz. I just didn’t have any at all, and was trying to cure myself with rest and broth. Last time I got a cold was in October, which lasted 3 days. No can do, this time around.
Pizza Friday.
You feel better?
Totes. Thanks 😉
Still a little stuffy in the head, but the scratchy throat and hurty coughs are fewer and far between, and no body aches this morning
Good. Get caught up on your rest, if you can, this weekend.
Yes, ma’am.
Well, at least you didn’t call me “mom”. Lol
Ha!
Well I went to bed at almost 11 Wed night and got up at 6 and dozed off around the same time last night and got up at 9, so…
Good. You needed it!
That’s roughly my sleep schedule every day (up by 8 at the latest)
It’s odd that the older I get the less sleep I seem to require.
On the rare occasions I sleep in? I feel groggy all damn day!
Hmm. Yeah that’s weird. I seem to work the opposite way. I used to live on 5-6 hours max, until after I hit my mid-30s and decided I need at least 7, if not 8. But having quit most carbs and increasing my fat intake has amped up my energy a lot. I’m only tired when it’s bed time. Or like yesterday, when my cold was its roughest. I bounce out of bed. I get UP from my desk and go do housework because I feel like it. And it’s not just the weight loss (I’ve weighed this much in the past). My whole metabolic state is renewed and my internal levels are normalized (blood pressure, blood glucose, cholesterol, thyroid, etc.). That plays a big part.
I am up at 5 AM everyday. I’m at gym by 5:15 -5:30 AM. ( even though I’m working from home and can sleep in). My inner clock is set for that time , I guess.
I go to sleep at 11 or 12 PM.
The only difference now? I can nap at home during the day. lol I have been taking naps for twenty or thirty minutes too.
Ugh, so glad I don’t need to get up at the crack of dawn. I’m low-maintenance. I can be ready for work by 9-ish if I’m up by 7:30-8, that includes showering/dressing, having made and eaten breakfast and checked G+ lol. Most of the time I can get away with it all being fast because I wear easy clothes that aren’t fussy and breakfast is ready in less then 3 minutes since I zap a serving in the micro of whatever breakfast dishes I made batches of over the weekend to last all week (quiches, bacon, sausage, chop and wash broccoli, coffee ready to go in the maker the night before, etc.).
I think I did pretty good on my time when I had to be at work at 8.
I got home from gym at around 6:45 AM ( I showered at gym but would fluff at home).
I was ready and dressed by 7:10. Eat breakfast by 7;29 . Brush teeth, pee dog outside. Arrive at work 8:10.,
Now? I shower at gym and wear clean yoga pants home. Eat. Go into my home office. The days I don’t hit gym? I wear my pj’s to work. Lol
There ya go! lol
Gabrielle M. I was awaken this morning by my own near-choking (I’m sure you can guess what I was choking on. Gross, I know). Anyway, I felt great yesterday all day, and it seems like it gets worse overnight. I drank a cup of broth again for breakfast, and it felt better. I had to go to Walgreen’s though, and succumb to the cold med aisle, because the lungs-on-fire cough would not go away, and I kept coughing up more gunk. I got some Alka-Seltzer Plus cold fizzy tablets and sugar-free cough drops, and it’s 90% better.
Oh no. Have you ever considered a Neti-Pot with a saline solution to flush out your sinus congestion?
I suffer from sinus trouble in the Spring and Fall. I use a Neti-Pot . I can’t stand to choke on sinus drainage. Gag.
I would also suggest propping yourself up in bed at night with pillows. It might keep you from having that congestion settle into your lungs as easily. ( I prop myself up in bed during my sinus seasons and it seems to help me from gagging on drainage that happens at night).
If these meds you bought don’t loosen you up enough I would suggest mucinex ( my husband swears by that cough medicine)
Keep drinking your water. Drink some hot tea since the warmth seems to soothe you.
Poor girl. I hope it loosens up more before you go to bed tonight!
I’m much better, now, thanks!
The Alka-Seltzer fizzy cold tablets help A LOT. They’re basically aspirin with decongestant and fizz. I just didn’t have any at all, and was trying to cure myself with rest and broth. Last time I got a cold was in October, which lasted 3 days. No can do, this time around.
I forgot about the propping. I tend to fetal pose and curl up. Think I will just use extra pillows tonight.
Yes! Glad you are better.
Pillows – very important. ?
And. The mucinex is in tablet form. I ran across them when looking for a bandaid in medicine chest last night! ( for future reference) ?