Action Plan for Lent

It's nearly 4pm and I've not yet had a significant drowsy period in the day, despite being awake since about 8am. I'm fairly impressed but I have started to take serious action to ensure that the "attacks" are less frequent and not as damaging (emotionally and mentally).

Today might not be the best day to say I'm improving because I have slept a good 9 hours and I feel it may actually have been more. Nevertheless, I think I'm going to start drinking more water in a day because I usually drink about 0-2 glasses per day. I've had 2 glasses today, one was water another was a herbal tea, which I think still counts. Also, I've started taking some iron tablets because I know I'm slightly deficient. That's supposed to boost your energy a little, right? And, last but not least, I'm going to try to increase my fruit intake from next to zero to something more like a real quantity so that I'm staying hydrated and I've got sugars and energy in me from a healthy source. It will balance out any heavier carbs and dairy products I've been eating. I had a kiwi today, because they were on offer :).

It's day 14 of Lent and I've not yet succumbed to a nap (alhamdulillah!). However, I came to realise that Lent has 46 days, with 6 days "off" as breaks (usually the Sunday), but I've not yet decided if I want to skip days in case it does make it harder to get back into the swing of staying awake...

Days of drowsiness

Last week was Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day and that means... Lent.

Of course pancakes came first and they were decidedly delicious but the following morning my friend asked me what I was giving up for Lent and minutes later my cousin asked me too. Now I don't know why everyone thought I would be on the Lent hype this year, but since they did, I was open to suggestions... What shall I give up?

While I had lots of things I could "do" or "add" to my life, there was very little that came to mind to give up. My good friend came up with a very good suggestion: day time or evening naps...

I agreed.

Believing that this would be very good for me, as a test of discipline, and hoping I would be more productive during my day by not losing hours to naps and consequently have a good impact on my final semester at university, I agreed.

I'm surviving but I must say I am prone to attacks of drowsiness, varying from the odd "oh I could just rest my eyes right now to refresh my brain" sitting at a desk in the library, to "my mind feels like it's going to explode and I can't function: I'm shattered" at 6pm.

Alhamdulillah I've overcome them so far, writing this post is to distract me from the current bout of drowsiness I'm experiencing so that I can continue to press on with my work.

One plan of action is to "live" in my lovely university library (which is 24 hours 5 days of the week) so that I'm not tempted by my bed. But I must say, often I lose time thinking about my drowsiness/ sleepiness too...

So far the weather has been beautiful and hugely encouraging, the warm sunshine does help with energy levels; too bad I just fancy closing my eyes in the right now...