For the past few days I have been having trouble sleeping and waking up. Night falls and I don’t feel like sleeping and I am awake till 5 am. Eventually, when I do fall asleep I don’t get a good nights sleep but abrupt naps. Finally, from noon to 2 pm I keep taking a peek at the clock to measure how guilty I should feel and how much longer can I lay in bed.
I am a freelancer, so self-discipline is the only solution to my routine. I don’t have any other factor to motivate me to sleep or wake up at the same time everyday. That’s one thing I miss about my job. I miss it because sleeping and waking up at the same time everyday sets a rhythm in your body. This rhythm helps you utilize your energy throughout the day as well as get good sleep in the night. We call it the ‘body clock’. When the body clock is rhythmic you feel great about yourself.
Today, I woke up at 7:20 am in the hopes to get the rhythm going. What’s the next thing after waking up, after the trip to the bathroom? Breakfast! Everybody knows how important breakfast is but no one really does anything about it. The truth is you can’t do anything about it with one foot out the door. There is plethora of quick breakfast recipes that require strange concoctions of ingredients that you will hardly ever find in the kitchen. Who remembers to get yoghurt after a tiring day at work? Breakfast is a challenge.
Although I detest this combination but porridge and green tea have done the trick for me. When I was diagnosed with PCOS in India I took a challenge to know everything there is to know to cure it naturally. I ate right, was productive and was extremely healthy all for two months. In those two months I lost all my excess weight and my body began to function right in a way that it had never. Porridge and green tea was my breakfast that time. I would make iterations of the porridge by adding different fruit everyday. I am not sure what happened next I stopped my awesome food regime and everything went down since then.
Here I am now looking back to that amazing time. Life was literally perfect. I felt great about myself, had a positive attitude, lost all the excess weight and fixed my PCOS! How awesome was that? Everything I did was worth it. So here I am restarting all the good habits again.
