Night Shift!

I usually work the ‘swing shift’ which is 7pm to 5:30am.  I would really call that graveyard, but I don’t make up the names and we call it whatever everyone else here calls it and all is well.  The ‘graveyard’ shift here is 9pm to 7:30am and I was asked to work this shift for the day, so here I am, trying to adjust.  It doesn’t seem like a big deal, really… it’s only 2 hours, right?  Well not really.  I’ve gotten so used to my habits that one day with 2 extra hours f sleep before work doesn’t seem to be quite enough to push my eating habits over 2 hours.

Usually, I have breakfast at home unless I’m lazy or got up to late, at which point I eat my eggs at work and with them my snack.  My first snack is about an hour after I get here, once I’ve saidf my hellos, gone through emails and updated the first few tickets.  Lunch usually hits around 12:30am and I have whatever it is I brought from home.  ‘Dinner’ is usually around 3-4am and is frequently a salad unless I’m just plain not that hungry and I just have a snack and call it dinner.  Then at 5:30pm I head home and for the most part, am in bed by 7am.

Today I had some almond meal with coconut milk for breakfast and a little after I got to work my usual dried coconut flakes and little bit of dried fruit, I figured if I kept my pattern then I wouldn’t want lunch til 2.  Not so much it seems.  Here it is 12:30pm and my body’s all ‘HEY, IT’S LUNCH TIME!  FORK IT OVER!’ which is kind of annoying.  Oh well.  I’ll just have a few coconut flakes, more fruit and a bunch of water.  I DO know that if I stay up must past 7, I get hungry again but I don’t much like eating right before bed. 

Get with the program, body!  It’s only one day, I promise!

 

On another note…  268 today, woowoo!  Slowly but surely!

Too Tired

I’ve had a pretty horribly emotional fueled week and change due to other peopels leaky drama getting all over the place.  Not cool, people, NOT COOL.  Anyway, I noticed that as my sleep lessens, the more tempted I am by the sugar (the sugar more than the grains at least) for the quick jolts of energy I’m guessing.  I spent the weekend off running around, not sleeping and being upset.  I was really unnerved about getting on the scale this morning but much to my surprise, I hadn’t gained OR lost.  That’s encouraging.  I may have not made the BEST choices all weekend (see: sugary coctails, french fries and the occasional mocha), making those choices on occasion aren’t a kill shot to my diet and weight loss.  A good reminder I’ll say. 

I did at least get a fair bit of walking in and some extra roller skating.  The boyfriend and I did some timed lap skating.  In roller derby, one of the minimum requirments is doing 25 laps in 5 minutes.  He is in far better shape than I am, being both a runner and cyclist and he managed 25 laps in 4min 51 seconds.  I did 15 laps in 3min 30 seconds before my poor still healing leg was very very done.  Not bad for being way out of shape.  I’m hoping the rink will be somewhat empy again next time we go so I can try again and see how I do.

Recruitment: Successful

So the boyfriend has decided he wants to run the Seattle Marathon and int he 2 months before then, he wants to lose a bit of weight.  So I have FINALLY convinced him to come join me in my quest for healthy eating.  He polished off the last few pretzels he had in his backpack today and I am working on getting him through the carb hangover.  I think tomorrow I will send him to work with soem almonds and coconut flakes and maybe a few strips of the home made beef jerky that should be nice and dry by the time I get home in a few hours (Thank you, Alton Brown!). 

I can’t wait until he gets the crazy enery in a week or two as things process out of his system.  Having a partner in crime is going to be awesome!