I decided to stay up last night and watch the entire Steelers-Bengals MNF game since I had vested interests in several close fantasy football matchups. When trying to lose weight, sleep is just as important as diet and exercise. Without enough rest, my efforts won't be successful. My goal is to sleep 7 hours a night, minimum. The game ended a little after 11:45 and I decided that I could get up around 7, be out the door by 7:30-7:45 and be at the gym in my office by no later than 8:15-8:30, factoring in the possibility of traffic. This schedule would allow me enough time to do my 30 minute early AM cardio session, quickly shower, and start my day at work.
I left at 7:45 and ran into traffic armageddon. Not just standard crawling traffic. Arma-fucking-geddon. An accident (which I was later told by a co-worker was not a substantial wreck) on westbound I-66 near the Sycamore St. exit had caused such a backup that it took me 20 minutes to get out of my neighborhood! The exit ramp onto I-66 was at a standstill so I took a back way to my office (the same co-worker said it took her an HOUR to get onto the ramp- she lives less than a mile away!). Of course, I ran into traffic taking the back way too. What is normally a 20-30 minute drive to work took about 1 hour and 20 minutes. This is approximately the third or fourth time in the last month that it's taken me well over an hour to get to work. Yes, Captain Obvious would tell me that I should leave earlier and I factored in 15-20 minutes for extra traffic. But this is absurd.
Anyways, my early AM cardio session didn't happen since I arrived just after 9 in my sweats and had to change into work clothes. I'm about to do cardio momentarily and have meal #4 after. Plus I'll lift after work tonight. More about yesterday's results and my diet strategy later.
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