Merf..
I had to eat a bagel this morning, one of the ones with HFCS in it. After eating the bagel, my tummy still felt hungry. O_o I still feel like I'm hungry. It's the first HFCS I've consumed since... oh, the weekend, I suppose. Trying to think back, most of what I've had has not had any of the corn syrup in. I'd read before that consuming HFCS confuses your body and it doesn't "fill up" the same way that REAL sugars do. Narr.
One thing that has been concerning me lately has been my energy level. First thing in the morning I'm perky, energetic, ready to go.... but by the time I get home I'm dragging. I don't even do anything during the day, beyond typing, processing paperwork... no physical activity. Yet, at the same time, I get home, eat dinner, maybe putz around for an hour or so before I get too tired to do anything other than read my book, and I promptly fall asleep anywhere between 9:30 and 10:30. I should NOT be so exhausted in the evenings. I get up at 6:30am... that's too much sleep, really. I should be able to keep going during the evenings. It's been a tough struggle for me, because I've been getting behind in housework too. The dishes or laundry go undone, the house doesn't get vacuumed, the bathtub certainly needs to be cleaned... but instead I end up sleeping because I don't have the energy to do much more.
It's so frustrating because I can't figure out why I don't have that energy. My food consumption has been better - I doubt food has been making me sick. Caffeine, or a lack thereof? Maybe... I'd consumed more caffeine when I was able to stay up later, months ago, than I have been lately. I drink one Diet Coke in the morning and that's usually it for my caffeine consumption, unless Joe comes by and we go out for lunch, in which case I usually have a fountain Coke. Maybe that afternoon spurt of caffeine would keep me going. I'm pretty sure it *isn't* my weight - I've heard that losing weight helps you gain more energy - I'm not too much overweight. At 5'8" and around 200 lbs, I'm only about 50 pounds overweight, and that's by modern doctors' standards. Those extra 50 pounds would be nice if they were gone, but I know people who are more overweight than I, who have more energy than I do. I don't know how they work.
Speaking of spending energy, I'm officially signed up for another panel at FWA again this next year. I'm going to do the "make your own badge" workshop there, Friday night from 8 to 9 pm, tentatively. I'm looking forward to FWA! :)
One thing that has been concerning me lately has been my energy level. First thing in the morning I'm perky, energetic, ready to go.... but by the time I get home I'm dragging. I don't even do anything during the day, beyond typing, processing paperwork... no physical activity. Yet, at the same time, I get home, eat dinner, maybe putz around for an hour or so before I get too tired to do anything other than read my book, and I promptly fall asleep anywhere between 9:30 and 10:30. I should NOT be so exhausted in the evenings. I get up at 6:30am... that's too much sleep, really. I should be able to keep going during the evenings. It's been a tough struggle for me, because I've been getting behind in housework too. The dishes or laundry go undone, the house doesn't get vacuumed, the bathtub certainly needs to be cleaned... but instead I end up sleeping because I don't have the energy to do much more.
It's so frustrating because I can't figure out why I don't have that energy. My food consumption has been better - I doubt food has been making me sick. Caffeine, or a lack thereof? Maybe... I'd consumed more caffeine when I was able to stay up later, months ago, than I have been lately. I drink one Diet Coke in the morning and that's usually it for my caffeine consumption, unless Joe comes by and we go out for lunch, in which case I usually have a fountain Coke. Maybe that afternoon spurt of caffeine would keep me going. I'm pretty sure it *isn't* my weight - I've heard that losing weight helps you gain more energy - I'm not too much overweight. At 5'8" and around 200 lbs, I'm only about 50 pounds overweight, and that's by modern doctors' standards. Those extra 50 pounds would be nice if they were gone, but I know people who are more overweight than I, who have more energy than I do. I don't know how they work.
Speaking of spending energy, I'm officially signed up for another panel at FWA again this next year. I'm going to do the "make your own badge" workshop there, Friday night from 8 to 9 pm, tentatively. I'm looking forward to FWA! :)