That's Right, One Day At A Time

Ok, so far this week things are going well. I changed up the types of things I've been eating just to give me some variety and I've just been taking it one day at a time, no pressure. I'm feeling really good lately and it's helped me get back on track. Which reminds me that I didn't give you guys any update on my doctor's appointment. So all the tests came back normal and the doctor suggested that the next step would be using a sleeping aid to see if that was the real culprit in causing the fatigue and unfocused feelings I've had for awhile now. Let me just tell you that I didn't realize how long it's been since I've had a good night sleep! I have frequent insomnia a few times a week, and have trouble staying asleep and often wake up three or four times a night without reason. I think I've been having trouble with sleeping since starting grad school which means that it's been going on for almost two years. I go to work during the day and then school and practicum at night often pulling 50 to 55 hour weeks. It's not unusual for me to get home around 10:30 at night and on some of those nights I stay up studying or doing homework. Which means that my brain has trouble "shutting off" at the end of the day. But the past week and a half has shown me what good solid rest can do for me during the daytime. I'm setting up a bedtime routine to keep myself on this new sleep schedule so that after the prescription runs out I'll have good sleeping patterns set in place. It seems I am very thick headed because it took me two years and a trip to the doctor for blood work to find out that I need more sleep than intermittent napping can provide. So I hope all of you are having a wonderful week too, and good luck for the weekend! (I'm still pretending that I don't remember that Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend. I ususally spend the majority of the game glued to the chips and dip bowl and I still haven't come up with a surefire plan for avoiding this trap!)