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Early to bed, early to rise.....

3/18/2014

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PictureThis is close to what hubby described that he saw.
I did something last night that’s so rare I suffered a bout of confusion.

I went to bed before midnight!!!!  I switched on the radio alarm which shows a red light and was puzzled by the second little red light above it. As the fog cleared I realized it was the PM light!  I rarely go to bed on the left side of midnight and the AM time doesn’t have a light.  I was in bed before 11:15 PM, although the initial plan had been to try for 10:00 but wow for me!  The best sleep, the restorative sleep is between 10 - 2 and I'd like to take in a bit of that considering I'm probably tempting fate always missing it. 

I fell asleep pretty quickly and slept soundly until a strange noise rudely blasted me awake at 6:30.  The synthesized musical sounds of nature ripped through the bedroom and it was served with a tongue full of dewy kisses from Jake.  The pups sleep like babies until the morning alarm wakes them and then they’re ready for action, so get up mom!!!   The culprit was hubby’s phone alarm, set to rise early to catch a glimpse of the International Space Station, ISS,  that was reported yesterday  to be passing by  around that time.

Hubby, my very own  ISS,  International Silly Scientist bolted out of bed at that ungodly hour expecting me to be just as enthusiastic.   He’s very supportive of my interests so I figured I should fake a bit for his, so I crawled out of bed.  Half awake and vertical I was quickly in need of the bathroom and the time it took for me to empty my bladder was just enough to miss the event. The thing had faded from view, losing the light reflection off the solar panels as it traversed the sky.  It goes around the earth 15.729
times a day.  Hubby said it was as bright as a street light glowing from the other side of the harbor.   Ah well, maybe next time.  We both crawled back into bed until my alarm signaled a more respectable beginning of the day!

So why did I go to bed so early considering it’s so out of character for a night crawler like me?  I’ve started a two day fast of 500 calories per day.  So far one day in and I’m feeling fine and not at all hungry but last evening we ate dinner as soon as I got home from work so by 9:30 my tummy started growling and I knew if I stayed up late I would be too hungry to go to sleep and all my hard work during the first day of the program would be ruined if I went beyond my 500 calorie limit. So to stave off hunger we had an early evening, at least for us night owls. 

I watched a PBS program that did a run down on an interesting fasting regime.  When I looked up a 500 calorie list of foods on the net it came up with the 5:2 Fast.  You fast for two days and then eat anything (anything!) you want for the next five days and then repeat.  There is no serious deprivation involved to put your body in a starvation mode so it stores fat, instead it helps burn fat, lowers blood sugars and the cells repair themselves instead of quickly multiplying which is apparently what causes cancers to form and screws up insulin production.  So it sounded pretty simple.  The guy who went through the process to prove the point of it all had very interesting results and I’m always looking for ways to lower my blood sugar naturally.   There is no real pain to this, so well worth the effort to see if it will benefit my body.

For breakfast I’ve had a boiled egg, ½ grapefruit and ½ orange.  Lunch consists of a small tomato, celery, and a Babybel size of cheese.  For dinner I had a deck of cards sized piece of wild salmon, a roasted pepper and 15 pieces of Asparagus.    

To take the edge off before bed I did indulged in a mouthful of Dulse which quieted the stomach and let me fall asleep easily.   I’m on day two now and I feel really good.  We humans eat way too much food and they have proven with lab mice and people, that eating less calories a day prolongs your life and prevents heart disease, kidney problems and other sicknesses such as Diabetes and Dementia.   If we are overweight, that means we eat more food than our body can burn so we store fat.  It only makes sense then that a reduction in our intake will burn the access of fat in our system.  I am always interested in losing that stubborn 20 pounds that likes to hang on so maybe this will help, but my number one priority is to regulate my blood sugar.   Anyway, I’ll keep you posted. 


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Mary Colby
3/18/2014 11:00:58 pm

The Patterns arrived yesterday and are terrific....so very happy with your accompanying bright photos too. These are best drawn patterns I have had in 20 years, other than a few of my own. I will be back. Thank you very much.

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