robmckim2’s BodyBlog

I’ve not posted anything new in about a month and thought it was about time.  Besides I got the day off today and have to fill my entire day with "stuff" so that I don’t go to sleep!  I am changing shifts (yet again) as of today for the 3rd time in the last 10 days.  I went from midnights to days (for a class) back to midnights, now they want those of us that got certified to be on a completely different, albeit better shift from 0630 to 1830.  I WILL NOT complain about being on these hours at all but just need to get normalized so that my sleep pattern can be once again-a pattern!

On to my workouts…I mentioned previously that I was going to bulk since being on midnights and would be doing very little to no cardio…well it has shown a little.  I’m up about 11 lbs and all of my lifting has increased as well as measurements, including my waistline a bit but I’m bound and determined to fix that now.  Since I’m back on days I’ll be doing my cardio again daily and working on getting that BF% down to where I want it before November!  I did a 30 min. session this a.m., and although I was sweating seriously…it felt great to be running and I actually ran at a better pace than I was previously; part of that is contributed to my continued dedication of quitting smoking.  In 8 days it will be 2 months smoke free!!!  I feel pretty darn good and want to start looking as good as I feel, so here comes me on the damn "dreadmill"! 

I’m going to be lifting as hard as I can while increasing my cardio daily from 30 min. to an hour every day; of course allowing myself at least one rest day a week.  I’m also trying to fine tune my diet much better.  The last month(+) I’ve been eating just about anything and everything I wanted, keep in mind that my choices are very limited BUT I WILL BE BETTER!  I also ordered some basic supps from my fav and yours-BB.com, you know, BCAA’s and the like, just to tune in my diet, cardio and lifting for a good balance. 

I have about 3.5 months to reach my goal and I am going to start hitting it hard so that I AM at under 10% BF, looking good and cut, strong and healthy.  I don’t want to disappoint myself now do I!?!

Question: Is it possible to drop 8-9% BF in 3.5-4 months? 

I’m sure as hell gonna try!

I feel better today than I have in the last few days; I actually got some sleep yesterday.  Not like 8 hours of deep, REM sleep but at least I DID sleep for a few hours!
Then this morning (last night) when I got up, before I went to work I decided to check my BF% at the advice of someone on BB.com.  Well, my waist line has actually gone down a couple of inches, dropping my overall BF% down with it!  I know it’s not much to most, but any sign of improvement is important to my motivation.
So only 5 more hours till I get off shift and then it to the gym, shower and off to bed to TRY to sleep even more!  Wish me luck and best of luck to all of you with your goals!

Sleep?  What’s that? 

This whole schedule/time change thing has got me so f@#^d up, I don’t know what else to do to get my body to sleep-good sleep-during the daylight hours!  It’s been a few days and I thought I would start getting into some type of sleep pattern.  That has NOT happened yet; hell I even worked out 3 times to try to make my body tired and wanting to sleep.  Still, I went to bed at 1345hrs and didn’t sleep but maybe 2-3 hours, very sporadically until I got out of bed at 2200hrs.  I tossed, turned, got up to pee, got up to investigate a couple explosions, got up to eat…I was up anyway an thought the protein would do me some good…all in all, I laid in bed trying to sleep and only managed to get a few hours of rest…not real sleep!  So here it is 0200hrs and I’m not tired or sleepy but I don’t have any real energy…but I’ll keep trying to make myself sleep when I go to bed, eventually I will get adjusted.

Has anyone ever used melatonin as a sleep aid?  I ordered some today in hopes that it will help…just don’t want it to be the type of thing that makes me feel like crap afterwards.