camnhan said:
Well, if my DH is home then I try to get to bed by around 9:30 or so and get up at 5:30...if he is not then it is more like 11 when I get to settle in. I don't sleep well however...I usually sleep a couple hours then am up for a couple hours tossing and mind racing trying to figure out how many more hours I have to sleep
I wish I slept more peacefully but have never been able to get my mind to quiet down...
I have the same problem. Once my mind starts that's it. I've tried praying, reading, stretching and mentally trying too relax my body too. Maybe meditation is next. Has anyone found this to help?
If you have run of the mill racing, try deep breaths and focus on relaxing one body part at a time. I don't often do this myself. I do much better with directed meditation, like in a yoga class. There are CDs you can buy of people telling you visualizations, relaxing thoughts. I actually do this for my DD when she is having a rough time.
If the racing is incessant and hard to calm, I find TV is about the only way to fall asleep.
The other thing with sleep is that if I have a few nights of bad sleep, sometimes I get into a rut, where I can't get a good nights sleep. In that case, I will take some Benadryl (that really knocks me out!!) or melatonin. I'll do that just one or two nights in a row and usually I can get back on a better sleep rhythm.
MAKE SURE YOU SENT ME YOUR WEIGH-INS, GUYS!!!
I also wanted to say thank you to everyone--going through everyone's PMs, I'm so in awe that so many of us around the world are represented and working on this one day at a time, one week at a time, one weigh-in at a time, and it's so overwhelming and moving to me to get to represent all of our efforts with those stats!!! (I know, it takes a special kind of person to get emotional about statistics.) But really, I love to see that little retention percentage show how many of us are sticking with it and connecting with each other and taking up the challenge of living healthfully with us each day in our daily lives, at home with our families but also here on the DIS.
So check your inbox, you thirteen of you, and see if I sent you a reminder! I'd love to hear from you, even if it's just to say "good Lord I don't want to get on a scale this week." I'm going to give everyone another day to get to me and I'll post tomorrow evening instead.
Y'all thirteen of you send me a PM, ok???
Happy Tuesday, everyone!
Samantha
Love this post!!
"emotional about statistics"
Thanks for your amazing organization with PMs, stats, everything!
Good morning friends! Just taking a moment to say hello on my way to bible study.
Well... The poo hit the fan at last night's swim meeting and without going into great detail I will just tell you that our Y has told us that they no longer can offer a competitive swim program for the senior swimmers at this time.
. This leaves DD with no choice but to look for another team for her senior year. The whole situation is heartbreaking, to say the least. I'm devasted for DD. we never imagined that they would essentially hand her her walking papers. I believe she was committed to remaining a TigerShark come he** or high water, but the Y has left her with no choice.
Thanks for letting me vent a bit here. I've shed more tears over this than I care to admit. Yesterday was definitely a black day here...my Dad started radiation, DD's mouse died, and her dreams of graduating as a TigerShark were smashed. We decided that for her picture of the day for yesterday it will be a photo of an atom bomb in full explosion, mushroom cloud and all.
Trying hard to keep it all in perspective for she and I....we are safe and healthy, as our our loved ones. We have a roof over our heads and food on our table. We have each other and she can continue to swim, albeit for another team. It is just a bitter pill to swallow for now.
Off to bible study....I really need the prayer time today especially! I'll be back later to chat and answer the QOTD.............P
Gah! Swim is beyond a mess for you guys. I'm sorry that your DD had her mind made up for her rather than getting a real choice in the matter. Hope you can find a suitable swim team for her to join!
Well... aren't we a QUIET group??!! This is CRAZY quiet for the first few weeks of a challenge! Where is everyone?
I'll chatter here for a bit in the hopes that someone else comes along to talk with me!
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Okay.... dashing off for breakfast and to check on more swim team related emails.... the news keeps coming in and getting more and more depressing.............P
You don't have to talk to yourself! But I agree it's moving slower than I expected for this early in the challenge. I missed getting in here yesterday, but I'm back. Ugh, sorry there is more bad news regarding swim - keep us posted!
Question of the Day
If you had three wishes, one for you and the other two for anyone else you want what would they be?
I'm going to stick with shorter term wishes...
Me: Finish the marathon in January without injury
DH: Regain his sense of smell. This is likely impossible, and he says it doesn't bother him, but I think he'd have an easier time with healthy eating if he could taste more than strong flavors like BBQ sauce and meat!
DD: To not have anxiety. I've suffered with it in varying degrees since I was young and I can see her going down that path already. I'll settle for a normal amount of worry.
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I'm debating what to do for my workout tonight - I'm supposed to walk/run 3 miles, but I still feel like I'm recovering from my 11 miles on Sunday. I was thinking maybe I'd do the elliptical hard core instead, but it's such a gorgeous day...now I'm thinking I will go out and try the walk/run. It will have to be either right after dinner or wait till after DD goes to bed. We'll see.
I didn't get in my yoga last night that I had planned since I was at a parent meeting for DD's school. It was not supposed to last 2.5 hours! But it was good. The school just opened this fall, so we're still figuring out if we will be a PTO or whatnot officially. We talked about the normal stuff like fundraising and volunteering. But I was so relieved to get a chance to discuss the problems that have been going on these first few weeks. There have been some serious behavior challenges in the classrooms that I honestly didn't expect. There is a much higher ratio than I imagined of students who are unfamiliar with discipline, sitting, listening, etc. The staff all has stellar experience, but I think they were unprepared for the amount of crazy. They really need assistant teachers, at the very least for Kindergarten. I wish I could go in to volunteer on a regular basis. I helped out at breakfast this morning. The district provides free breakfast (cereal, muffins, fruit, milk). But the teachers are so busy making sure no one is hitting each other, that they don't have a chance to notice that five year olds don't know how to open milk cartons. DD has made friends, is learning a lot considering the environment, and has never said she doesn't want to go to school. So while it's not dire enough to pull her out or anything, I am very anxious to help them get the assistants and volunteers in.
On another note I did see my doctor yesterday and got different medications for my asthma, 2 different inhalers, so we will see if this helps. She did say she has seen alot of her asthmatic patients having problems with all the smoke from the wildfires. Hoping these new meds will be just for the fall season and then back to my regular ones for winter.
I'll be praying for you and your whole family with all these trials and burdens. 
for 45 minutes! It was a lot of fun. 
I was never so happy to get off a bus in my life! I had texted the rest of the staff and they were very sweet when I got off the bus. Just let me go off on my own for a bit to regroup/stop the ringing in my ears! 
Now I really want a fistful of chocolate covered almonds, but I am being good and sipping the chocolate milk I just made.
) but nothing that DD liked. I will return them later this week and take another look. She could wear last year's dress, but with all she has been going through I thought that new dress might make her feel a bit better. I do have a few that she could borrow if I can't find anything. 
! They will then come and clean out the chimney. So, I haven't been sleeping too well lately.
This meant we had to go east to pick them up and then drive west past my school to get to the meet. Now the meet couldn't start without us since we bring the questions and the answer sheets. It worked out but I was on that bus for a very long time yesterday.
and then we will head down to Rhode Island to visit colleges....... URI on Saturday with an overnight (hopefully) at DMIL's and then Open House at Roger Williams University on Sunday. That is the school that she is really excited about, so I hope it goes well. She has already been in contact with the swim coach and is anxious to talk with him in person. 
so can I just say congrats to all the loosers and maintainers this week and to those that did not see what they wanted on the scale may next week be kinder. 
and then pack for a long weekend at the beach. 
