Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Hump Day

How is it Wednesday already?  I am clearly experiencing Healthy Living Summit withdrawal.  I have been reading so many new blogs and adding twitter feeds whenever I find a free minute.

Note to self: Update Blogroll 

Between that, work and life, I am exhausted.  To add to the fun, my little princess has decided at 2.5 that she no longer wants to sleep through the night.  Instead she yells "I want you Mommy!" until I take her out of the crib.
She wants me... at 2 a.m., 3 a.m., 4 a.m...
 Interrupted sleep makes for 0 morning workouts this week.  It's sad too because the weather has been nice and I want to run outside.  I even programmed a workout in my Garmin for my speed work yesterday morning.  However I wound up on a treadmill at lunch.  Regardless though, run completed.  I did sacrifice lunch though (no time) and a hungry Jen is NOT a happy Jen.  Thank God for the Dancing Deer Fruit and Nut Squares I had brought into work from the HLS swag bag.  Really yummy!  So, today I am better prepared.

Salad + hummus + avocado + banana = Happy Jen

These days anything I can check off as completed makes me happy.  With September looming, I have a million things to do that I swore I would do earlier in the summer.  Not to mention that I have not studied for my ACE PT certification all month summer.  I think September will (have to) be a fresh start. I'm going to start working on some goals and plans for a better, more consistent diet.
FYI - Wine will be on that diet

With marathon training runs getting longer I'll need to squeeze more run time in.  Somehow I also need to be doing some strength workouts.  I feel like I have lost so much strength since I stopped doing the Jamie Eason LiveFit program. With Super Spartan in two weeks, feeling weaker is not optimal.  I just need to start moving.  Once I'm going, you can't catch me.

Sharing is caring: Do you become another, more scary person when you are hungry?
Moms: Is it normal for a 2.5 year old to change her sleeping patterns?  How do I fix it?


2 comments:

  1. Yes when I am hungry the reality is that I become HANGRY, cranky annoying, and a tad scary. Then it just leads to the other side of not so much.

    The other thing is that lack of sleep really messes up my food. I am learning to practice HALT (whenever I feel hungry, angry, lonely and tired) I have to stop. Re-asses what are my basic needs that are calling for my attention, what can I do to address them at this very moment. Practice compassion that for that moment yes indeed I will be a bitch and its ok.

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  2. I'm totally a cranky pants when I'm hungry. Darth Husband, back when he was Darth Boyfriend, learned not to ask me questions when I was hungry. Hungry meant no way, no deal, etc. After I was fed, I'd totally be like "Oh yeah that's a great idea!"

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