Friday, April 15, 2011

What Time Is It?

Today's Food:
3 slices soy and linseed French toast.
the usual coffee
2 cups of tea
5 glasses berry squash
Chicken fricassee

Today's Exercise:
Ummm, does bouncing around while singing count?

I really need to stop sleeping. Not completely, obviously. That would just make me really irritable and fall over a lot. Well, a lot more.

Last night I went to bed about 2am (which, in my unemployed state is actually rather early), and didn't get up today until 1pm. Do the maths and that's 11 hours of sleep. Either there's something mum's not telling me and I'm actually half cat (not entirely unlikely, given mum's love of cats), I have some kind of sleep-inducing disease, or someone's slipping me roofies. Every night.

After a modicum of internet research, however, I have discovered that a lack of sleep actually increases your appetite. It makes your body produce these crazy chemicals that make you hungry. Technically, this should be helping me right now, but on the flip side, sleeping excessively is also a symptom of depression.

Sigh. This is old news.

There are very complex co-relationships between sleep, depression and weight gain/loss. I'm no scientist,  so trying to work it all out to my advantage is doing my head in and make me even more depressed. Exercise helps, unless you're asleep or too depressed to leave the couch.

So, please wake me in the morning and tell me to go exercise.

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