#1501, Tuesday, September 1: Night and day

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Post 1501, Day 244 of 2015
- 1,705 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I know I generally don't get enough sleep. I don't have any trouble falling asleep, in fact, I'm usually so tired by the time I lie down that I fall into a deep sleep instantly. I sleep so soundly I fear it is dangerous, worrying that I might not be awakened by, say, a fire alarm.

The problem seems to be on the other end, the waking up end. My schedule has me using an alarm five days a week (never on the weekend). The alarm goes off four to six hours after I fall asleep. I have to start my day, and I'm not refreshed.

If I take a nap in the evening (a strategy that used to work brilliantly in the past), I wake up before my alarm goes off.

Which is exactly what happened today. I had a night off, nothing pending, not even chores to do, and I fell asleep before dinner, woke up and had dinner - too tired to make anything, so a couple of Quest bars, which actually isn't a bad dinner at all - then fell asleep again, only to wake up at three o'clock in the morning. And I couldn't fall back asleep.

I am hoping all this straightens out when I don't have a fixed morning schedule, and don't need an alarm to force me to start my day on an arbitrary schedule - that is, after I retire.

I  have never had a problem in the past with being a night person, but I have difficulty getting squeezed out of sleep being a night and day person.

Food and Diet Section

Today's Weight:                   206.0 lbs

Previous Weight (8/31):           206.2 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:                - 0.2 lbs

Diet Comment

Expecting a win, I'll take the near-tie.

Food Log

Breakfast

Omelet with peppers, onion, greens, cheese and bacon.

Lunch

Salmon salad (Wild Alaska pink salmon, celery, mayonnaise) on baby kale, baby spinach, chard and cole slaw mix.

Snack 
A Quest bar.

Dinner 
Grass-fed hamburger with sautéed onions.

Snack 
Quest bars.

Liquid Intake
   Espressos: 2;  Coffee: 24 oz.;  Water: 102+ oz.

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