Taking A Beating
I’ve been on vacation, for a whole week, 7 days. I left last Wednesday (the 21st) and returned this Wednesday (the 28th). I was in Denver. Chillaxing if you will. It was kindof a mandatory vacation from work. I was supposed to return relaxed and rejuvenated. I was for a day. And then I slipped into my normal state of being today. I couldn’t sleep. I tossed and turned. I had crazy dreams (I feel so far from rested when I can remember my dreams. They’re so taxing).
When I was in Denver, I’d go to bed at 10ish. Be asleep by 11ish. Wake up at 6:30, remember I was on vacation and sleep a couple extra hours. I woke up feeling rested, ready to start the day.
That’s not the way it is at home. The stress of work leaves with me when I leave the building. It’s there haunting me in the middle of the night, and it’s smiling at me in the morning when I wake up.
I don’t like it. I want to feel rested when I wake up in the morning. I want to be able to make it through the day without feeling like I’m going to pass out because I’m so exhausted.
So, I’ve done some thinking.
I walk 2 miles a day. 1 in the morning, 1 in the afternoon. It doesn’t even begin to compare with the amount of activity I was getting when I was on vacation. It could be that I was getting so much activity that my body was so exhausted that I needed the good sleep and thus got it.
I ate better when I was on vacation. I ate well. I was getting all kinds of fruits and veggies and proteins and carbs, but not an overwhelming amount of carbs like I get during a normal day. I’ve got to strive to eat the way I was eating on vacation, it was just healthier.
I also think I need to force myself to go to bed at 10 regardless of me being tired or not. And I need to get up no later than 7 every morning. Even out the sleeping schedule. I’m hoping that with all this, things will start to feel the way I felt in CO. And that will make me happier.
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