Listening to my body part 35885

I’ve written quite a bit about my battles with getting older, adjusting my life style, and listening to my body over the last few years. It’s been a struggle at times changing some habits to combat my aging self, but I’ve also had some great successes over the last couple of years.

For one, I’ve slept a ton more in the last year and half than I have the rest of my life. I’ve adjusted my bedtime earlier and I no longer stay out late except in rare situations. Similar to that, I’ve also started to get more rest overall.

I’ve also cut down on my drinking quite a bit over the last few years. As the hangovers get worse, the alcohol becomes less attractive. I no longer have any nights out late at the bar. I try to drink more water between my drinks.

For as much progress as I’ve made, I’ve also realized yesterday that I probably haven’t made enough. After a productive Monday morning, I hit a wall in the afternoon yesterday and I was clearly exhausted from a likely combination of this recovery from being sick the last couple of weeks and a longer Saturday than my body could handle.

It’s definitely a frustrating situation. I didn’t have a crazy Saturday by any means. I golfed in the morning and watched football afterwards at my friend’s place. While I did drink a bit, I made sure to drink a lot of water and was even in bed by 11. This would’ve been a very calm night in my 20s, but alas I’m no longer in my 20s.

One thing that I’ve learned about getting older is that the bar constantly changes. I’m finding that I need even more rest nowadays and a big part of that is cutting back on the alcohol so I can get that rest. It also means taking more rest between my work outs. And working a bit less to balance out my life more.

It’ll be a bit of an adjustment period, but I’ll feel better for it afterwards. It also won’t be the last life style change I’ll have to make so I better get used to it.