Note To Self: Eat Breakfast
I’m something of an insomniac. I don’t sleep too good most nights, and haven’t for years. There’s the occasional night I do sleep alright, but most nights I’m awake restlessly watching the clock go from 1am, 2am, 3am… sometimes all the way until 7am.
This makes training at a set time very difficult for me. On the nights (or mornings) I’m awake until 7am, I usually can’t bring myself to get up until about 12 noon as my body is desperately craving even just a little bit of good quality rest.
Usually when I do get up, I feel tired, groggy and fatigued. And with the first activity of the day being my workout, that’s no way to be feeling. When I feel tired, I also don’t feel like eating, so for years I’ve neglected having anything to eat immediately after getting up, and usually have something several hours later, instead.
This might have been an ok practice before I took up bodybuilding, but now, it’s not.
Recently, I’ve learned upon waking, blood sugars are very low, and getting some simple carbs into the system pronto for energy is very important. I mean, if it’s important for the regular person who’s biggest physical exertion is walking to their car, and slowly sauntering around the office, and tapping a few keyboard keys, it stands to reason it’s going to be even more important to have a boost of energy if your lifting pig iron, doesn’t it?
So with this in mind, and knowing I find it hard to get good quality sleep, it’s going to be doubly important for me to get some simple carbs into my system as soon as I wake, so when I get working out around 30 minutes to an hour later, I have more energy and I’m more up for it.
