Healthy Step – Water

StaircaseMy week is all out of sorts this week … we had a huge storm over the weekend causing a lot of damage in the area.  While we were lucky to escape with very minimal damage – just some large tree limbs dropping into our yard. Unfortunately, many of our neighbors were not so lucky.

Because of all the downed tree limbs and power lines, there were no trains running today and I couldn’t get to work.  I like working from home every now and then … it breaks up the routine and I am not only able to sleep in an extra hour but I am also able to work much later into the evening (read: get more stuff done).

One of the hardest things about working from home, though, is that I really struggle with drinking enough water.  I am not sure why but I really just don’t drink water at all when I am at home.   I also don’t really drink enough water when I am at work but at least I drink a bit more.  So, I am back to work tomorrow and I’ve decided that my healthy step for this week will be to drink more water.  I am going to try to drink at least 64 ounces of water… this will be a real struggle for me but I am going to try!

What’s your healthy step for the week?

Healthy Step Update – Sleep, Sleep, and More Sleep

If you saw my first post, you might be wondering how I am doing with my goal to get 7.5 hours of sleep each night.  Well…

StaircaseMonday – Success – 7.5 hours of sleep!

Tuesday – Fail – only 7 hours of sleep.

Wednesday – Fail – only 7 hours of sleep.

Thursday – Success – 7.5 hours of sleep!

Friday – Success – 9.5 hours of sleep!

 

I will definitely end the week with getting over 7.5 hours of sleep on Saturday and Sunday nights so I am not too worried about that.  I definitely need to keep focusing on getting myself to bed on time during the week, though as you can see by my mixed results.  And, despite getting more sleep this week, I still managed to come down with a bit of a cold.  I think that I may have delayed the cold by a few days but by the end of the week, it caught up to me.., I can only just imagine how I would have felt if I had gotten less sleep.

A few lessons learned:

  • Planning ahead is important.  If I can get myself ready for bed a few min
  • Eat dinner earlier.  I ended up having to stay up a bit later trying to finish my dinner.
  • Don’t start projects late. I had a couple of missteps because some house related projects got started too late.  They definitely could have waited until the following day.

How did you do on your healthy step?

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