Another Week More Exercising!

 Another Week More Exercising.



It has been a bit of a tougher week for exercising. I have been keeping at it but the weather has not been on my side for cycling but also I can not wake up in the morning. I still need to work on my running anyway so I got on the treadmill and lifted a bunch this week but it was still a rougher week. It has been raining in the morning and not having the energy to get ready in the cold for what ever reason ruins my day. I am not sure what happened with my energy levels in the morning but I am just not ready to wake up and cycle. I have still be getting exercising each day even with the low energy levels. It has been taking me until close to noon this week to feel ready to exercise and I am trying to figure out what the root cause of this is. It is not like I have been sick or over exerting myself. I mean I have been working out like this for months now and not had this issue other than being sick. 

What am I to do about this? I am thinking its time to take a small break and just do a diet for a week or so until I get myself back. A break is not something I am keen on doing but if I keep working past an odd feeling it could just keep getting worse and worse. It annoys me to do that becuase I have been making progress towards my goals. I also do not want to end up losing progress by putting too long of a pause on my journey. I have not gained any weight and have been progressing in each part of my journey. I am lifting more weight, cycling faster, and running longer than I have before. I do not want to end up back in a position like I was a little over a year ago where I was not excercising and gaining weight and starting all over again. 

So its a pause on the Journey? 

I am not going to pause it just yet fully. I am going to see how I feel in the upcoming week and go from there. Is this a silly plan? Maybe but I am going to an eye on things and if I do not get more energy then I will pause it for a while. If I do end up having to pause it then a bit stricter diet for a week and making sure I stick to it. One week of not eating what ever I feel like and staying under a calorie limit should not be too bad. I still do not eat as badly as I used to anyway so healthy options and less food is not as big of a problem as it was a year ago when I started this journey. 

 Could it be anything other than over exercising

One of the other things I have to make sure to keep an eye on with all of this is my sleep. I have adressed a problem I had with sleep for years that made me exhausted and I have made sure to keep up with treatment for that. Sleep apnea kept me down for years and having a CPAP machine makes sure that I am breathing when I sleep. This week I have checked the machine each morning after feeling so tired and the wost it has been is .6 events hour. That does mean that I stopped breathing close to 1 time per hour of sleep and that does not sound good but overall its better than the 20-30 times per hour I was getting at one point. So with that being treated I do not think that the problem is giong to be the sleep apnea. I was feeling fine weeks before with similar numbers as well. 

I am off to figure out if a pause is needed in the journey or if I can continue at the pace I have been going at. Thank you very much for reading have and wonderful day!

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