Ladies & gentlemen; I’m a night owl (or one of my
Mark’s loyal bats, just whatever you choose to call me) and as much as I tried to
get rid of this bad habit I failed, there are various reasons for this
spreading from iron deficiency to the constant
stress.
This of course means I lack energy, especially
in the morning, and once I have breakfast,
I feel all drowsy and want nothing but to hit the bed. I hate that, I
hate it so much I used in the past to drink a whole pot of chi and tolerate the
agony of a coffee thermos just to get myself through the day without having to
experience the embarrassment steaming from knocking my head on the first
surface I find and pass out!
The truth about me is that I’m not a day
sleeper, really, on my best days I never sleep while the sun is still up. When
I decided to change my life and fix myself on 2011 I could once again see the
true me rising to the surface.
So what went wrong you ask? Well like all
folks on this green Earth I have good days and not very-pleasing-events-happening
on other days, and at this stage of my life I’m not really on the safe side of
the street anymore, with my refusing to heal injury I have turned into a lazy
always-in-pain slug. So while struggling to find a good training routine that
does not add to my suffering I need a breakfast that saves me from the passing
out sessions, people I need energy!!
And on my quest for finding the perfect
breakfast (or 1st breakfast to be exact cause sometimes we have a
late 2nd breakfast in our house, and I hear you hobbits applauding “Thank you!
Thank you!”) I reached some results:
1- Fried eggs sandwich (with tomatoes
and/or lutes). Horrible! makes me drowsy.
2- A moderate mug of milk (I have it
mixed with some tea, what’s the word in English?) and jam sandwiches. BAD!
Again I want to blackout.
2- One or two bananas and a cucumber, and
sometimes a glass of milk too (this was on my running days) good for me.
3- A big mug of milk (& tea) and
bread. Not bad, I need to only eat a half bread though cause I get stuffed.
4- A mug of milk (and tea) and
some dates. Perfect! I’m fully awaken, and even better; I never feel swollen
and hunger strikes me after a decent amount of hours.
5- A big mug of milk (& tea) with acrushed garlic (only for one month, stop for a month, then repeat if you want),
not so tasty but it gives me good energy during the day so it’s good for me
too.
6- Green tea….nausea and a terrible
headache, i.e. NO WAY!
7- A mug of milk with biscuits or cakes…I
get really greedy and stuff myself so bad I can’t walk….HORRIBLE CHOICE!!!!
Well I’m thin, and I have always been,
but lately for the first time in my life I gained some pounds, just a few that
only I could recognize actually, but what bothers me is the change in the size
of my waist, again I’m the only one to notice it but it’s still a problem, and
since I can’t run all these annoying (repeat: only noticed by me) extra pounds
away I really need to put myself on a healthy diet.
It’s quite hard for me to stay still, I’m
a fierce walker, seriously I LOVE walking, I get down on an earlier bus station
only to walk the rest of my way home, and walking through my neighborhood is a
joy to me. I even walk under a burning sun, which is basically the case all
year long in Khartoum, but don’t do that unless you've managed to successfully steal yourself some super suit with
the help of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy that prevents from being
baked…and hit by a sun stroke, all the same! But you get what I mean.
Which leads to this: I honestly don’t understand why people
insist on riding every vehicle they can find, or not find for that matter?
Khartoum transportation is the worst! we already waist all day either waiting
for or riding on slow, hard-to-find and horrible looking buses, I’m not even
going to mention the other things on wheels that I have no words for in
English. So instead of just standing there for half an hour or more, then
struggle to find a seat in a mini battle with other potential passengers, I
prefer walking to other stations, it’s a good exercise and let’s face it saves the money, prices of everything are
increasing like fire here and on daily basis.
As
for running talk about endorphins and adrenalin. Ah! Running is wonderful; it
works like magic for my physical problems and my monthly depression cycles , so
when I had to stop those activities because of the injury my life took a bad
turn.
But this has to change. It MUST change.
And it WILL.
I can start with a good breakfast :)
Well! that’s all folks! See you soon.
Your Sincere Captain
Haneen
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