I’ve known for a while that the weakness in my healthy living lifestyle has been sleep. I just don’t get enough of it. If my sleeping patterns aren’t enough of an indicator, my Garmin watch reminds me of this regularly, (my sleep score last night was 34). it doesn’t help that I’m on holidays and sleeping on futon couches. And I know I’m not going to improve things until I get home. But today I got a reminder of how important sleep is.

I stayed with my nocturnal uncle for 4 nights and was going to bed between 4am and 6am. I headed back to my mom’s last night and although she went to bed around 11, I was still up at almost 3am. I managed to sleep past 9:30 but I was body tired today.

I headed to the gym early this afternoon and everything felt hard. I needed longer than usual rest times before sets, and I cut my workout short. I just didn’t have the energy to continue. It’s obvious that my sleeping patterns and lack of sleep are why I feel this way.

It’s the one area of my life that I really don’t manage well. I don’t sleep for long enough, and often not well enough either. This is something I have to build into my routines. I know this, I just need to start doing it… right after these holidays. It’s time to stop complaining about this and actually do something about it.