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Good Bad & The Monkey
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Call me Ray (not Ishmael)
A Saucy Wench
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
When you sleep (especially if you do lots of physical activity) you'll go through more non-REM sleep and that will allow your body to repair itself. It will literally be using up energy stores to rebuild/fix tissues - and you'll use up glucose/fat to keep your body doing normal body functions (so you are going to lose some weight - especially since your using up stuff to keep those processes going).
De-slacking in progress
I really sweat a lot in the early morning hours. I normally get up at 5 or so, but on the rare occasion that I sleep in I will weigh significantly less. I have gotten up at 5, weighed and gone back to bed and woke up again at 7 and weighed 2 lbs less. Yet another good reason to sleep in.
started running @ age 48 [lost 70#+, quit a 30 year pack/day habit>> ran HM] Ran a few years then quit. Gained 70#+ back and smoking like before. Time to get healthy again @ 52 years over with the C25K program and beyond again. RE-start date 1-13-14