Post 2578
- 10 years and 5 days since I started this blog -
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| New Year's Eve, 2019, Los Angeles, California |
Daily Comment
Since I got my Fitbit, I've been tracking my sleep, and I've improved a lot.
I got the Fitbit a week or so after my quintuple bypass surgery, a couple of days after I moved into J. and Melissa's living room.
The history of my sleep problems goes back to when I restarted playing bass in the early 1990s. After that, I started going out sometimes at night to clubs where I might get the opportunity to play, something I hadn't done since I moved out of New York City fifteen years earlier.
I got the Fitbit a week or so after my quintuple bypass surgery, a couple of days after I moved into J. and Melissa's living room.
The history of my sleep problems goes back to when I restarted playing bass in the early 1990s. After that, I started going out sometimes at night to clubs where I might get the opportunity to play, something I hadn't done since I moved out of New York City fifteen years earlier.
Those would be late nights, during the workweek. In addition to staying out late at the club, I was so energized it was difficult to fall asleep after. And there was always work in the morning.
This pattern held, and became more fixed and more frequent at time went on, and was exacerbated by times of emotional trauma: the death of Nell, the collapse of my second marriage, the move to Syracuse.
In Syracuse, where my entire social network was musicians, and my social life tok place mostly in bars (pre-pandemic), over the past ten-plus years it had gotten fixed: Going out most nights until late - falling asleep in the early hours of the morning, waking up after about four hours sleep.
This pattern held, and became more fixed and more frequent at time went on, and was exacerbated by times of emotional trauma: the death of Nell, the collapse of my second marriage, the move to Syracuse.
In Syracuse, where my entire social network was musicians, and my social life tok place mostly in bars (pre-pandemic), over the past ten-plus years it had gotten fixed: Going out most nights until late - falling asleep in the early hours of the morning, waking up after about four hours sleep.
Back in my old software engineering days, there was a saying, you can't improve what you can't quantify.
The Fitbit allows me to quantify my sleep in quantity and quality. In the beginning, both were low, although given my changed circumstances, already better (I figured) than they had been.
I was getting about five-plus hours of sleep, with a low score (Fitbit scores each night's sleep based on total amount, amount of REM sleep, amount of 'recovery' sleep, and amount of restless sleep. My first score, with just over five hours sleep, was in the high 50s, and was the lowest score I ever got.
In the four months since then, I have gotten to the point where I average over seven hours sleep a night and my scores are never less than 70.
I'm grateful for life in constant change, with the hope of improvement.
I'm grateful for life in constant change, with the hope of improvement.
Previous Weight (1/4/21): 202.3 lbs.
Net Loss/Gain: +1.1 lbs.
Diet Comment
Food Log
Breakfast
2:45pm: Oatmeal plus (steel-cut oats, chia seeds, hemp seeds, wild blueberries, raspberries and blackberries, cinnamon, whey protein, stevia, kefir), with a side of turkey bacon.
Lunch
7:00pm: Keto Deluxe nut mix (almonds, macadamia nuts, pepitas, walnuts and cheese puffs).
Dinner
11:10pm: Turkey salad (roasted turkey breast, arugula, cabbage, chard, kale, spinach, balsamic vinaigrette) with parmesan crisps and a Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
2:45pm: Oatmeal plus (steel-cut oats, chia seeds, hemp seeds, wild blueberries, raspberries and blackberries, cinnamon, whey protein, stevia, kefir), with a side of turkey bacon.
Lunch
7:00pm: Keto Deluxe nut mix (almonds, macadamia nuts, pepitas, walnuts and cheese puffs).
Dinner
11:10pm: Turkey salad (roasted turkey breast, arugula, cabbage, chard, kale, spinach, balsamic vinaigrette) with parmesan crisps and a Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
Espressos: 2; Coffee: 0 oz.; Water: 60+ oz.;
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