Prioritising Sleep!
Here’s to organisation – and it’s not always what you think it needs to be!
It’s Monday afternoon and as I write this and I’m grumpy. The reason? Well I stupidly had a coffee (and a latte at that!) yesterday afternoon at 430pm. So when I went to bed at 8pm so I would be fresh faced today and crack on with work, but I couldn’t sleep. Even after a bath at 1030pm, I still don’t think I got to sleep until after 1130pm (and I was wide awake at 530am grrrrr). I HATE not being productive so even with my excel spreadsheets that I worked on at the end of last week and my task lists prioritised, my mental energy was crap today. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve done a good 6 hours in the office and got stuff done, but I don’t want to have an average performance, I want to get the absolute maximum out of my time at work, so I can achieve what I want quicker, to allow me to have more down time and fun time.
It taught be that my organisation needed to be tweaked so that even if I was organised with what I had to do, I had to be able to mentally do it – and be 100% switched on at that. It made me think about my clients who sign up to classes or bootcamps but never get 100% out of them because (like me yesterday), didn’t stop to think ‘is this a good idea?’ ‘How will this influence the way I train / work / am switched on tomorrow’. Often we book fitness sessions in our diaries and feel really positive doing so, but perhaps we need to put a note in the day before, ie drink more water, no coffees after midday, get into bed early, cancel that dinner I don’t really want to go to anyway!
I know with 99% of women I work with that energy is the battle we face most. I know more than anyone how sleep is such a vital component of health. On Saturday my Mum had the boys overnight and I slept for 11 hours, I felt like I could run a marathon. Today, I had all the intentions of getting the most out of my day, but trying to do it on 6 hours sleep, baaaaaaah, just not going to happen.
The old me, would fight it, have another coffee, plough on through. But the new me is clocking off, going to have a hot bath and I might even have a snooze (especially as I’m teaching tonight!). Listening to your body and being observant of your actions is really key with getting to the place you want to be, whatever that may be.
When looking at the rest of my week, I’ve worked back a day and looked at it as a whole picture. What do I need to be careful of, can I fit all this in, do I have healthy food I can cook quickly for the days I am busy etc etc
I’ve also put a post-it on my desk that says NO COFFEE AFTER MIDDAY and I’ve got my Epsom salts ready for a wind down tonight. – project sleep this week for me. My twins slept through last night and I didn’t – that is NOT what I want to happen in my life ;o)
Here is what I ate / drank over the weekend:
Friday
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6am Coffee, organic whole milk and 1 sugar
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715am Spring Green, broccoli, cucumber, celery apple and lemon juice
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830am Toasted genius rye bread with hoummas and sliced radishes with olive oil and lemon
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930am Went to my Mum’s for the day as I was not 100% and my nanny had the boys over night. Climbed into bed and did some emails, work reading, snoozed. Found it veery hard to relax (see previous blog!) at first but the following day I felt great for it.
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1230pm Had a tuna nicoise salad
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430pm had a parma ham and mozerella salad(both of these were bought from Cake Boy which is a great cake shop near to the flat, I bought 2 salads at lunch because I wanted to spread my food out and eat really healthily today. There were only 3 little mozerella balls, but I had lots of mixed salad with it.
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7pm Had baked lemon sole (from Sainsburys), rice and peas.
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8pm Climbed into bed and then slept for about 11 hours!
Saturday
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7am Woke up after 11 hours of uninterrupted sleep, woo hoo!
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715am Had a coffee, chilled out reading in bed, a luxury for me!
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9am Had an hours errands to do before going home so treated myself to a latte :o)
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1030am Juice as above
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1115am Had 2 x corn crisps with hoummas and sliced celery
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130pm Had a baked breaded turkey escalope with a few oven chips and a mixed salad – really nice lunch
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530pm Had a few mouthfuls of the boys pesto wheat free spaghetti
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730pm Glass of red wine once boys gone to bed
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8pm Had a parma ham, feta cheese, asparagus salad with pine nuts and pumpkin seeds, olive oil & lemon.
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Between 8pm and 10pm I had another 1.5 glasses of red wine
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1030pm Bed
Sunday
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630am Coffee as above
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730am Juice as above
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845am banana
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930am taught a class
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1040am Latte (in meeting)
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1215pm Starving and was out, ended up grabbing an egg and cress sandwich from M & S
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230pm Had a quinoa, broad bean and avocado salad from M & S and added some cooked prawns to it
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440pm Had a latte out and about (just realised writing this that this was 2 in a day and I try to only have 1-2 a week)
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615pm Vegetable soup
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730pm 1.5 glasses of red wine and I had a small bowl of wheat free pesto pasta as I was a bit hungry
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8pm Climbed into bed to read / watch tv but at 11pm was still wide awake. I could feel the caffeine in my body and I hate that feeling. Also I don’t usually eat late so even thought it wasn’t a massive meal it was a heavier type of meal than I usually have.
As I finish this off, it is actually Tuesday morning and what a difference a day makes, even though I was later to bed than usual as I was teaching last night, the fact that I had 7.5 hours of solid good sleep has meant I am refreshed and switched on today, huraaaah!
Maybe I’ll rename September theme as PRIORITISE SLEEP??!!
Have a great week Princesses!
Janey xx
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