Sweating...

Lupron Week 6... I actually got some sleep when I was on vacation at the beach last week. I think a combination of a/c and alcohol allowed me to sleep through most of the hot flashes and sweats. Too bad we had to come back home. The kicker is it isn't even that hot at nite at home, however our bedroom is a sauna. So last night was a terrible nite for sleeping. I got in bed early so that I could read and I sipped on a glass of sleepy time tea with ice in it of course. I started drifting off around 9:30pm so I decided to turn the light off and get some sleep. Well that didn't last long. The first time I looked at my watch it was 12:30am...and of course I am drenched in sweat and burning up from the inside out. Since I was wide awake and en fuego I decided to go downstairs and watch a little TV until I could fall asleep again...stepping out of the bedroom there is quite a temperature drop and as I was walking down the stairs I could feel the cool air. So the living room is way cooler...I opened out another window and there is actually a breeze. So I laid on the couch and watched some TV...The Nanny has become my show of choice in the wee hours of the morning. Around 2am I think that I can go up to our bedroom. That didn't last long it was way hot or I was way hot and the dogs were incredibly smelly, who knows what Jackson got in to, so I went back downstairs and got a small bowl of cereal and laid back down on the sofa. Finally sometime around 3am I fell asleep. Woke up for good around 5:30am...sweating of course.

I may have to give my doctor a call because I know that once school starts I have to be on my toes. Getting little sleep is not going to cut it. I would hate to break down in my classroom because I am tired and emotional.

I started running again on Sunday. It is quite the struggle, but at least I am getting out there. Nathan has been running with me when he isn't at work. He is being very patient about the slow pace and sometimes having to walk. I am taking this losing weight and getting back into shape thing one day at a time and so far that past 2 days haven't been that bad. I am taking recipes from Julian Michaels' book. There are some good ones and some that we can't get the ingredients. I am switched back to my 1 cup of cereal in the morning with fruit instead of competing with Nathan with eggs and pancakes. I really want to loose some weight for Mexico in November. I got a really cool new swimsuit at the beach because it was really on sale and I want it to look good and well fit in Playa del Carmen. The amount of weight that I have gained in the last year is out of control. I use to be able to consider myself healthy and in shape and I have let all that go. So one day at a time, it took me a year to get this way and I have to get it through my head that it is going to take at least that long to get back to where I would like to be. I planning on running the Shamrock Marathon in March 2010, so I have to get my mileage up to 25 miles a week before I can start the training.

Work on the house has been going well. We are know trying to get the master bathroom complete. It has had some kinks along the way. I finally thought we were getting somewhere and the paint on the ceiling started peeling, just along the edges. Once we started trying to fix that, it started coming off in sheets. So we are removing the paint off the entire ceiling and we are going to have to prime and paint without harming the countertop and walls so this is going to be a slow careful project.