Yesterday and today were my early days for getting up and working out in the morning. I slept in a little bit today till 5:30 am, I didn't have to work till 8:30 so I had some time. I did my workout and got a coffee and headed to work feeling great! For most of the day, I actually felt pretty good, a little tired but not too bad, that is until 5 pm. It was like Cinderella at midnight, I may as well have turned into a pumpkin (like the carriage). My brain became foggy, I couldn't concentrate, and my contacts started bothering me. Thank god I thought to bring my glasses; so I took out my contacts and put my glasses on.
On the way home from work, I was so tired. I knew it wasn't because I was hungry or anything like that because I just ate a bunch of food at 4:30pm. I didn't want to have a coffee because I can be sensitive to coffee and it would keep me up all night. On the other hand, I knew that I couldn't just go home and take a nap, otherwise I wouldn't recover from it. I've done the nap thing before when I was super tired and it made my exhaustion worse. So I headed home and kept myself busy by cleaning my horribly messy kitchen and ate an apple. After a while, its like the smoke cleared and I got my second wind. I didn't necessarily feel like running a marathon but I didn't feel like falling into a coma anymore.
I do understand how when people get tired during the mid afternoon crash that the tendency is to reach for sugary foods to give a boost. We had some cookies at work and all I wanted to do is devour the whole bag to give myself an energy kick. However, I knew that after that I would crash even harder and be in a worse situation.
This whole getting up super early for workouts and then doing full time job plus Ju Jitsu is going to take some getting used to. However like I said in my last post, I am willing to do the work to get to where I want to be. I may need to take a step back tomorrow and regroup myself.
On the way home from work, I was so tired. I knew it wasn't because I was hungry or anything like that because I just ate a bunch of food at 4:30pm. I didn't want to have a coffee because I can be sensitive to coffee and it would keep me up all night. On the other hand, I knew that I couldn't just go home and take a nap, otherwise I wouldn't recover from it. I've done the nap thing before when I was super tired and it made my exhaustion worse. So I headed home and kept myself busy by cleaning my horribly messy kitchen and ate an apple. After a while, its like the smoke cleared and I got my second wind. I didn't necessarily feel like running a marathon but I didn't feel like falling into a coma anymore.
I do understand how when people get tired during the mid afternoon crash that the tendency is to reach for sugary foods to give a boost. We had some cookies at work and all I wanted to do is devour the whole bag to give myself an energy kick. However, I knew that after that I would crash even harder and be in a worse situation.
This whole getting up super early for workouts and then doing full time job plus Ju Jitsu is going to take some getting used to. However like I said in my last post, I am willing to do the work to get to where I want to be. I may need to take a step back tomorrow and regroup myself.
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