This isn't working.

Not the blog; that's fine.

No, what's not working is my attempts to follow Bill Phillip's suggestion on when to exercise. He recommends getting up an hour early and doing it then.

So, being an attempting chick, I tried this. Normally when I get up, I get up around 3:30-4 AM, because I have to be to work by 5. (This includes about 1/2-1 hour of sleeping in by hitting snooze, as I've learned if I set my alarm for about an hour before I *have* to get up, I'll actually get up on time.) So I set my alarm for 2/2:30 - including the alarm setting on my cell phone - intending to get up around oh, 3am, so I can exercise for an hour before having to get ready for work.

This didn't work.

You know what happened? I'll tell you what happened. I kept hitting the snooze alarm until my normal time-to-get-up time, and sometimes even past it. I tried this for a week, and it was the same all week long, no matter what time I went to bed the night before. 9pm was my norm, so I tried 8pm and 7pm. Nope. Didn't work.

So, I've decided that despite my best intentions, AM get-up-early-and-do-this exercise isn't for me. The only problem with this is that he recommends doing this because it's before you've eaten anything, therefore you'll burn your breakfast as exercise calories, or some such fiddle faddle. Well, okay.

I'll try exercising in the afternoon.

My eating schedule right now is as follows: breakfast around 4-ish, meal 2 around 8-ish, meal 3 around 10-ish, meal four (if I'm able to take the break; sometimes we're too busy) around noon-ish, and then another small meal around 2-ish when I get home, then nothing until dinner around 5-7 pm. I've decided, since I have that 3+ hour stretch in the afternoon/evening when I'm not eating, I could probably exercise in that time period, around 3-4pm.

Granted, it's not quite what Bill Phillips had in mind in his "Body for Life" book, but at this stage, I'll take what I can get.

Anyway, last I weighed myself I was at 185.5, so I'm gaining again, despite efforts to the contrary. This is partially what has prompted me to up the ante in the exercise department. I hope to start this when my schedule re-rights itself, as it's a bit helter-skelter at the moment.

Though with the new scheduling system starting in a bout a month, it's entirely possible that I'll be able to start the whole exercise in the morning thing, as we'll be opening the desk later. Then again, I could also wind up back in flooring, the other department I worked in. :/ We'll see what happens. As long as I am able to keep my sleeping schedule somewhat regular, I should be okay, I hope.