My Journey With Health And Fitness – I Need Sleep

Today I realized they should start a new fitness program, Hot Bootcamp. You know, it would be like Hot Yoga only conditioning workouts. I say this because when I went out for my 5:30am walk I noticed it had rained and realized this would not be good. Sure enough it is super humid today. And since I did a 1 1/2 hour walk I didn’t get back to the condo until 7:00am giving the air conditioning only 1/2 hour to work before bootcamp. Trust me, there was a lot of sweat involved even though bootcamp was strength and mobility.

For years now I have had problems sleeping. It got so bad when I was still working that there were days that I was almost falling asleep at stoplights. My doctor tried putting me on sleeping pills but I hated them. I learned that I would just have to get through each manic insomnia cycle until the point where I was exhausted and then possibly get a good night sleep (by that I mean maybe 6 hours). They say exercise helps with sleep but that has not been in my case.

You would think that when I am in my happy place here in Mexico I would sleep like a baby but no. When I check my Fitbit in the morning I am lucky if I get a reading of fair. Yesterday we even did a ‘dry’ day with no alcohol but still to no avail (note when I do a month of no alcohol it still has no impact on my ability to sleep). So right now I am apparently going into one of those manic cycles and have had very little sleep over the past few days. It gets frustrating because when this happens I get cranky and I don’t like being cranky when I am in Mexico because I just want to enjoy myself.

So today I am joining some friends and we are going to relax at a beach club that we love. I am hoping that the hypnotic sight and sound of the surf will relax me to the point that I at least need a nap. If that fails then tomorrow I am trying a deep stretch class at my fitness centre (online of course) and maybe that will do the trick. Here’s hoping.