Had a terrible night sleep last night, between being woken up by my children/partner a total of 6 times and having to get up to pee another 3 times all over the span of 6.5hrs I feel like crap today. Gone are the days when I could have a shitty sleep, take my Duro and feel like I slept great. Even after having my morning coffee I still feel crappy.
I have also noticed the last couple of nights I can feel myself start to fall asleep and then freak out and feel like I stopped breathing. It’s kind of hard to explain exactly what happens but that’s probably the best way I can describe it. It’s so weird because I don’t think my breathing actually changes at all. Not sure if this is a new side effect coming on or if I’m just weird.
Now some positives .. I think I have finally worked out this whole calories in vs calories out thing in terms of losses. My overly ambitious goal is to burn 2950 calories a day based on consuming 1200cals but my base goal is to burn 1500 cals on top of however many calories I consume per day (which is under 1200). According to some research and some maths this should result to an approximate loss of 1-1.5kg a week, which I think is a steady loss, although I won’t complain if it ends up being more but I’m keeping my expectations realistic.
Yesterday I decided to stop using being sick as an excuse to sit around and do pretty much nothing all day, although since I still have a rather annoying cough I have decided to ease back into my workouts for fear of jumping back in to it and making things worse.
Things I have learnt this past week -
I have also noticed the last couple of nights I can feel myself start to fall asleep and then freak out and feel like I stopped breathing. It’s kind of hard to explain exactly what happens but that’s probably the best way I can describe it. It’s so weird because I don’t think my breathing actually changes at all. Not sure if this is a new side effect coming on or if I’m just weird.
Now some positives .. I think I have finally worked out this whole calories in vs calories out thing in terms of losses. My overly ambitious goal is to burn 2950 calories a day based on consuming 1200cals but my base goal is to burn 1500 cals on top of however many calories I consume per day (which is under 1200). According to some research and some maths this should result to an approximate loss of 1-1.5kg a week, which I think is a steady loss, although I won’t complain if it ends up being more but I’m keeping my expectations realistic.
Yesterday I decided to stop using being sick as an excuse to sit around and do pretty much nothing all day, although since I still have a rather annoying cough I have decided to ease back into my workouts for fear of jumping back in to it and making things worse.
Things I have learnt this past week -
- When sick you need to give yourself time to rest and recover and not feel guilty about it.
- Once you start to feel better, even if you’re not 100% you need to try and resume your usual routine, even if you can’t give it your all it’s important to still try to go through the motions.
- It’s really easy to fall out of a routine and say screw it.
- Don’t let your decisions from yesterday deter you from your journey, today is a new day!
