February 22nd, 2010 by ragingmoon
Well it’s been over a month, so it’s probably time for an update as to how I’ve been doing with my polyphasic sleep schedule.
I love my naps, they have been going great. On a normal day where I have done some physical activity I will typically fall asleep in about 2 minutes or less. If I haven’t it will be more like 5 minutes, and if I’ve had a stressful day it might hit 7 minutes before I fall asleep. By far and away It is around 2 minutes though.
Another cool thing to note is that for a month now I have been doing naps only with the timer on my watch. it is loud enough to wake me up if I need to be woken up and I never have to worry about bringing an alarm clock or my ipod with me.
Something that messed me up as of late was a sickness that hit me for around a week. I was doing pretty bad and there were a couple of days where I had to hibernate. I also was taking extended core naps in an effort to kick this thing. Then by the time it was finally gone I had an incredibly stressful weekend at work that didn’t help anything in terms of recovery. So that weekend was just this past weekend. The past 3 evenings I slept right through my 11 o’clock nap and woke up somewhere in the middle of the time my core should be taking place. I’m taking steps to recover from this issue. I’m hoping that it won’t be detrimental and that it will be a quick recovery.
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January 20th, 2010 by ragingmoon
Intake
750 ml water
2 slices of toast with butter – 100 calories
Awesome Mongo’s Grill Lunch – 1000 calories (ish)
1 glass orange juice – 110 calories
Chips and Hummus – 500 calories (I had a lot of hummus)
Milk Tea – 50 Calories
Total Caloric Intake – 1750
Calories to maintain weight – 3052
+/-: -1302
Activity:
2 hours of mall shopping
1.5 hours of broomball (this is a pretty intense workout if you’ve never played it)
Today seemed to go better for both eating and exercise. Hopefully I didn’t destroy myself for the school group coming to camp tomorrow. I’m not sure what I will be teaching them. I still need to work on diversifying my food intake as well.
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January 19th, 2010 by ragingmoon
Monday 01/18/2010
Egg Sandwich (3 eggs, 2 pieces of toast, Margarine, cheese) – 500 Calories
Cheese Poppers (6 of them) – 300 Calories
Chips – 500 Calories
Bread – 100 Calories
Orange juice (4 Glasses) – 440 Calories
Milk Tea (2 Glasses) – 100 Calories
1 litre of water (ish)
Total – 1940 Calories
+/- 1112
Activity – Nothing
Ok, so the Calorie count looks pretty good, but on the downside I did nothing short of walking to my car yesterday. It is understandable because it was a lazy day, where I did a bunch of studying, made a couple phone calls, and otherwise didn’t really leave my parents’ house. Today will be better in terms of activity. Also looking through this I could definitely have been a bit healthier in my eating. I’ll see how today works out.
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January 19th, 2010 by ragingmoon
Weight (weighed immediately after my 3 hour core): 242 lbs
Height: 5′ 10″
Calories to consume each day in order to maintain current weight: 3058
Measurements:
Biceps: 16″
Waist: 43″
Butt: 47″
Thigh: 25.5″
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January 19th, 2010 by ragingmoon
Hey, I’m finally getting around to writing the intro to my health log. The reason I am doing this is because there has been a fairly diverse set of reports about how polyphasic sleep affects their energy levels, weight levels, and calorie needs. I found a calorie counter that tells me how many calories I will need roughly each day in order for me to maintain my own weight. The issue with this is that it is based off of a monophasic sleep pattern. I’m curious how my metabolism changes during a polyphasic sleep cycle, and how this in turn will affect how many calories I need to maintain my current weight.
Anyways my plan is to weigh myself roughly every 2 weeks, take measurements every month, and then daily report exercise and calorie consumption. We’ll see how things shape up.
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