Author: bugsbrightside

Well, well, well, ’tis the end of week two of the Healthy Habits deal I’m doing.  This week proved my weakness . . sleep.

Read anything for weight loss and mostly you’ll read about food choices and exercise.  Those are very important!!  From what I’ve proven with my body over the past year or so is that those two things don’t mean squat if your body is not well rested.

So much of your body relies on proper sleep.  Thyroid, hormones, adrenal glands, and all the inner workings NEED sleep just as much as they need good nutrition and exercise.

This week I stayed pretty close to last week as far as my diet, calories, carbohydrates, fat, and protein intake.  I exercised about the same amount also.  BUT, two nights this past week I only got six hours of sleep.  Right now my body wants at least seven hours; it would prefer eight hours.

I’ve also been a tad more stressed this week.  There are so many big things going on in life right now.  A couple more got added in this week.  I try very hard to maintain a good perspective and to stay calm.  But, I am human.

Stress and lack of sleep this week had me losing only about half the weight that I lost last week.  And that fact right there is why I’ve given up on myself so much in the past year.  I would try so hard to eat well and maybe exercise here and there with Zero results.  That is frustrating.  So I would give up.  Not this time.

This time I’m not giving up.  This time I’m working harder to actually fix the problems that I create for myself.  This could be a horrible cycle for me to stay on.  This HAS been a horrible cycle for me to be on for too long now.  This time I’ve had enough of giving up on myself.  It’s hard to face an issue when it seems so out of your control.  Of course my sleep seems like it should be under my control!  But, it doesn’t feel that way.  How else am I supposed to get everything done for my kids, my family, and my clients?  I mean, there are only so many hours in a day!  Right?

Wrong!  Well, right, there are only so many hours in a day.  But wrong that it feels out of my control.  Just because it feels that way; doesn’t mean that it IS that way.  This year so far, I’ve worked harder on outsourcing things that don’t have to be done by me.  AND this year, I’ve worked on saying no to things.  I’m currently working on enforcing bedtime for myself!!

Tonight I will be thankful that I did still lose weight this week!  Tonight I am thankful for this reminder to stop putting myself on the back burner!  And tonight I am going to bed early so that I can give my body the sleep and rest that it needs!