Getting Older

There are so many ways in which getting older sucks. I am nowhere near old yet, but I'm starting to actually feel like I'm aging. I don't like it. First it started with the heartburn. I randomly started getting random bouts of heartburn after eating spicy or fried foods. Probably has something to do with that hiatal hernia they found when I was a teen. It used to not ever bother me. Just randomly I would throw up if I ate the wrong things or too much dairy. Now I have heartburn all the damn time! I like things with flavor so even on a salad I add salsa and I love tomatoes so I tend to eat a lot of tomato products. I love things like spicy soups and mexican food and I'm not quite willing to give them up yet. I did give up coffee for the most part though. That has helped some.

Oh, but then came the tiredness! Now at 9 PM I'm barely able to keep my eyes open. Last night I was in bed, asleep, at just after 8. This is particularly bad on workout days, but just in general I'm more tired. Twice this week I have been up in the middle of the night and not been able to go back to sleep. One night Jack woke up at 2 AM and was trying to watch tv so I had to go in there and get him back in bed. Then Madison woke up and was being a pain. 2 hours later I ended up with a headache from being up so long in the middle of the night. I finally got back to sleep at 5:30 only to have my alarm go off at 6:20. Luckily, Matt got the kids around and let me sleep until 7:30. Chances are I probably growled at him when he told me it was time to get up. I don't remember. I just got up long enough to pack lunches because I'm pretty sure they would have gone to school with a banana and some crackers if left to Matt. I don't even remember why I was up in the middle of the night earlier in the week. But after all that, I crashed at 8 last night. I could have gone to bed earlier, but I figured it wasn't good to go to bed before the kids. That's just sad.

Today I went to the dentist and for the first time in my life I have to have dental work done. It's nothing major, but for someone who has never had a cavity dental work is a foreign concept. It sucks.

So there you have it. I still love boxing. I'm still watching what I eat very carefully. I am still not going anywhere near the scale. My jeans I put on this morning are significantly looser and the butt is baggy and not very flattering at the moment. I'll take it. I sweat my ass off 3 days a week at boxing and do lighter workouts 2 days a week. I can't manage to workout very hard on those days between boxing classes. I'm ridiculously sore most of the time. It just doesn't work.