Yesterday morning I woke up and decided sleep was better than working out. I've been exhausted lately, and the fucking rain makes my commute an hour and a half in the morning. I've started to become really tired since mid-week last week, and last week was the first week where I've started to wake up at 5 due to my new schedule. The last time I had this schedule I remember being worn out too. I admit I didn't expect to be worn out.. or at least not this fast. I need better discipline to get to bed at 9; currently I'm doing 9:30-10, and by the end of the week I've racked up 5-6 hours of sleep debt, and I never make that up because I can't sleep past 7. Even when I "slept in" yesterday, I woke up naturally at 6:30 and couldn't sleep for the half hour that was left before I had to wake up. Things were feeling a particularly horrible for the past two days, mentally and emotionally, but this morning I made it to work in under an hour, so it's not so bad anymore.
Also, the day before yesterday I was super duper tired and at 2:00 had a $6.75 cup of soy chai tea (WITHOUT SUGAR!! This is why I love smaller coffeeshops -- they actually make the teas without added stuff and add the other stuff later. Other bigger coffeshops like Coffeebucks or Starbean make the chai teas with powdered mixes... so even if you get a soy chai, you're still getting powdered nonfat milk because it's in the mix and you can't get it sans sugar. Only thing is the smaller ones are super expensive!). It super surprisingly woke me up for the rest of the day! Coffee and tea (and caffeine in general) have unpredictable results on me. It can make me sleepy, do nothing, or keep me up until 3AM. Thank goodness it didn't keep me up too much and my melatonin kicked in only slightly later than it normally would have. I don't think I have ever had that kind of reaction ever from tea (or any caffeine source for that matter). I would either get super sleepy or nothing would happen. Guess the $6.75 was worth it? Well, I didn't pay for it, so it was...
Anyway, back to the exercises. This morning I did Back & Biceps + ARX. Many types of curls + pull ups. The video moves really fast. I had to rewind at almost every new exercise. That is one drawback of having adjustable dumbells: can't just put one set down and pick another up. Gotta put them down in the grooves and move the tab thing to adjust the weight! Plus the whole thing about how it was the first time I did this and I don't know what weight I should lift yet. It was difficult at some points because we would do 2-3 types of curls in a row and I was pooped from the last one. I started to slack off during ARX, but I caught myself and pushed harder.
Food: yesterday I ate an apple, 42g protein, asian pear, lunch was stuffed tomatoes again, dipped veggies in hummus, had a ton of sweet potato chips. It is AMAZING how fast my skin reacts to bad food. Last week my skin was on the verge of being awesome again. This week, not so much. I hope it is not the sweet potato chips. I think it started with the sourdough bread I ate on Sunday. Then, sad to say, it might have been the mung bean cakes. I would eat like 3 in a row. The second ingredient is in those is sugar. When I mess up once, it is hard to get back on track perfectly. My skin is bad. Ugh. Two weeks ago I was super excited to get clear skin and lose this layer of fat.. this week I am tired of being hungry and tired of restricting myself. Today I ate a ton of refined carbs already. It is crazy how I can basically flip a switch and get acne. The switch flip the other way is harder. I need more discipline. I wonder if I could eat super duper well to clear up my skin before mid-Summer.
I read an article from Yahoo! Shine that linked an NBC article that said babies delivered via c-section are more likely to be obese. Are you freaking kidding me? I actually read the article and it stated that out of some study 15% of obese ppl were delivered through c-section compared to 10% who were delivered through natural birth. Theories abound suggest that c-section babies miss important bacteria in the vaginal canal that affect their metabolism. The BIGGEST thing they did not account for was how heavy their moms were. Obese pregnant patients are less likely to have natural births. Hey, you know what causes obesity? It's not the fact that you were born via c-section. *gasp*, I know. IT'S BECAUSE YOU EAT TOO DAMN MUCH. Are we at the point where we are so fat and so out of control and so out of touch that we need to blame the way we were born for the current composition of our bodies!? Puh-lease. You're fat because you don't pay attention to what you eat. End of story. And for those of you crying about your thyroid problem, that less than 1% of you, this doesn't address you. But for everyone else, all the excuses -- you're fat because you're genetically predisposed to be that way, you're fat because you don't have time to eat right, you're fat because you don't want to spend more money on healthy food, you're fat because you were delivered via c-section -- cry me a river. Then swim in it. You'll burn off a few calories.
