Michele, I take 5mg every night. Usually, even if I do sleep lightly and get up once, I still feel pretty good in the morning. I have been saving the 10mg for when I feel like I need it - a cold is trying to "get" me, or a rough week coming up, or general run-downedness. In the last month, I think I've used 10mg 4 times, and it has yet to let me down.
I think melatonin is not licensed in the UK, though doctors can prescribe it off licence. It's certainly not sold over the counter.
Working very hard at my Mum's. There's lots of walking as part of what I have to do. At day 4 of any visit I start to flag and eat more to try to keep up.
Michele, I take 5mg every night. Usually, even if I do sleep lightly and get up once, I still feel pretty good in the morning. I have been saving the 10mg for when I feel like I need it - a cold is trying to "get" me, or a rough week coming up, or general run-downedness. In the last month, I think I've used 10mg 4 times, and it has yet to let me down.
I checked my bottle. I only take 3 mg. I think I'll try 6 if I really need it one night and see how it goes.
silver, I worry a lot (one of very few items) about the Codex Alimentarius regulations imposed on supplements over there. There are some rumblings in our government that look like support for it; fortunately the bills never advance very far. I spend a great deal of time researching what works for health and longevity, and it irritates me to no end that a lobbyist can undo a massive and conclusive pile of scientific data with a few wads of cash to the right politician.
Meanwhile ... I am looking forward to a nice routine week with clear sailing.
I will be stressed out and writing on deadline all day, and at those moments when I am so freaked out that I pace the floors, I want not to go to the cupboards or the fridge looking for food. Food is never the answer.
There is a long weekend at the end of this week. No matter what happens. Even if everything turns out badly and I disappoint people, including myself. The days will pass and take me there like waves pulling a floating boat.
What a day. Two meetings, a one-on-one, a training session with a new hire, publishing a document and working on the Microsoft thing prompted by Ballmer's retirement announcement. Somehow I got very lucky today when I was writing the latter piece on a two-hour deadline, and the sentences just came out decently, and it didn't take long to arrange them in a decent order. This was tight but the analyst who was supposed to get me some bullet points on the email forgot to press "send" on the email (which I watched for all weekend), until I checked in with him Tuesday. Of course he may rework the draft, since they can do that, but at least it was done.
I'm debating running tomorrow, after some viewing of Good Form running videos and reading about Chi Running. (Thank you for your email -- you know who you are!) It may help me work off some tension in the morning before showering & commuting to CT.
It's Wednesday and I am finally back on track with tracking. I have all sorts of excuses as it hasn't become a habit again (yet). I have been eating massive amounts of vegetables - that's the good thing. My weight is about where it was this time last week, which is irksome.
I also made a commitment to run a 5K in mid-September. The start line is walking distance from my gf's house and it's very flat.
saef, I hope you get your run in today, and it has all of the benefits you're looking for!
Good for you Becky! I wish I could say the same. I did manage to lose 2 pounds since the cruise, but my weight is staying stubbornly at the same for two weeks now. Irksome? More than that I believe. I guess my points system isn't working. I'll have to make some serious changes and if it means writing down every morsel again, well so be it.
Not so good today: This afternoon, I had a big honking fat chewy PowerBar and a handful of cashews for lunch.
I have that one document going on deadline, which would have kept me busy enough -- but after I showed up in the office around 8:45, I saw my boss's email from 5:30 AM. She was knocked out with a migraine. She'd been co-teaching an onboarding class on writing for 25 people. Suddenly I had to go down there & teach her section of the class, talking to the PowerPoint slides. Usually on a presentation day, I'd have on a suit, but today it was bright pink jeans with ankle zippers, high heel sandals with a pink pedicure and that Liberty of London print blouse that I picked up from a good thrift shop a few weeks back.
Anyway, my part is done, I'm back at my desk and have finished cleaning up a new draft of the document.
I just want to go home. I am trying not to attack the vending machine since I'm hungry from that completely inadequate but blood sugar disruptive lunch. That PowerBar was like eating a candy bar, only just faintly chewier with a slight redolence of protein powder.
Don't you just love how we self sabotage ourselves?
I've been an angel and my weight has gone up each of the past two mornings. It is making me want to throw in the towel and eat junk!
Yeah, it is awesome. And I can't seem to make myself stop doing it today or yesterday. I chose to go out to dinner Sunday night, then was well in line Monday, Tuesday and now today have fallen right off the tracks. And still falling. At this point I've used all my calories today and should just not eat dinner. Bah.
Saef - stay strong against the vending machine. One of us needs to be strong today.
I gave up on all the Power bars and their cousins - Luna, Protec, etc. I might as well have been eating sugar right from the bowl. I do much better with a big chunk of skinless BBQ chicken breast or low fat cheese for a protein boost.
Probably not available from the vending machine saef. I wonder, if someone invented a vending machine with a cooling unit that dispensed salad, cheese, chicken, etc. how popular it would be?
I will be the strong one tonite. I just drank an energy drink to get me through my interview @ 8 p.m. (and hopefully not stop me from sleeping) and then I will come straight home and have a beautiful ripe pear from the fridge where it's chilling right now. Instead of going to the local grocery and getting a lb. of cheap jelly beans.
My last few days have been different than any I have ever experienced. A couple of days ago I went to my beautician and had her shave off the last few wisps of hair remaining on my head , today I got a wig, If any of you ever need this information for yourself of friend or family. You can get one free at American Cancer Society. That is where I got mine, I had plenty of choice and also got 2 scarves of my choice in addition.
. I wonder, if someone invented a vending machine with a cooling unit that dispensed salad, cheese, chicken, etc. how popular it would be?
