Work Out > Eat Right > Sleep Tight.
No really, he sleeps like this…
One healthy habit influences the next. We’re often told that the best way to lose weight, get in shape, stay healthy is to eat right and exercise. But just as important is getting enough sleep. It’s amazing how much my whole day can just be destroyed if I didn’t get enough sleep the night before. My resolve shrinks to nothing, and I automatically steer towards easy comfort foods (muffins anyone?) and vegging out. I just don’t seem to care about eating right or exercising when my body is craving sleep. And the longer the sleep-deprivation lasts, the worse it gets! I’ve had bouts of insomnia that lasted long enough to completely destroy entire training plans and eating plans before.
See???
On Saturday Angelo and I went to a wedding in a nearby town, and we spent most of the day eating, and most of the night drinking and dancing. We didn’t get to bed until late, I was drunk, and we had to get up early the next morning to go to the Water Park with my dad and brother. We spent the whole afternoon out at the Park, and didn’t eat anything till about 6:30pm. I ate a lot at dinner, but still somehow got to bed kind of late and didn’t sleep well Sunday night. Then today, I had breakfast, but I was stuck in a meeting all day with no lunch, and so by the time I got out at 4pm, I was in absolutely no shape to go for a run. (I had wanted to make up for missing Sunday’s 6k run).
Waking up…
My training brain was trying to convince me to go for a run, because I didn’t want to miss two work-out days in a row. I got worried that my gut reaction to postpone the run another day was just laziness, just a rationalization to give up and nothing more. But I also knew that my eating and sleeping habits had fallen off course, and as a result, I couldn’t expect my body to perform the way I would have liked it to. I knew that it would have been super punishing to crank out 6km, and I decided that what was most important was to refuel properly tonight, get a good night’s sleep, and get back at ‘er once all systems are go.
Too much cuteness… Sleeps for everyone!!!