Burning the Midnight Oil

Woo! I am doing well again. I came in under the calories for the past two days by roughly twenty calories each day. Not a huge deficit, but one nonetheless! Yesterday also marked the tenth consecutive day I’ve exercised. Since the beginning of February, I’ve taken just two days off. That is definitely something I can build on emotionally.

In other news, I had the unfortunate ‘pleasure’ of  freelancing from 6:30p to 10:10p last night after work. I was a bit worried about working in some exercise, but I managed to get in a good forty minutes of strength-training circuits with Jillian before playing a few minutes of Uno on the xBox and calling it a night.

I am beginning to accept my late-night fate. Going to bed at 10p is but a distant memory. Instead, I now shoot for 11p and hope for the best. Lately, I’ve been crawling into bed at 11:30p or 12a and I’m OK with that. Sleep is very important to me, but if I am able to fall asleep right away, I can get in a solid seven hours during the week even if I don’t hit the sack until midnight.

In addition to calories and sleep patterns, I have two potentially lame confessions….

1. I weighed myself again today. Honestly, what is the deal with being obsessed with the scale? It needs to stop. S-T-O-P. I will probably have to resort to asking The Girl to hide it from me. A little embarrassing, but it could be worse.

2. I purchased the Kettlenetics kit from Amazon a few days ago. Why? Because it looks fun and I need to start working on strengthening my body rather than just doing straight up cardio. I like the idea of incorporating a total body workout while moving and keeping the heart rate up. It’s a system that dips into both worlds and I’m excited to try it. I have no doubt that it will take me a while to get into the groove and learn the moves, but I hope it will kick my ass and keep be engaged and pumped for a while.

I will be sure to provide details when it arrives.