{"id":28602,"date":"2012-02-08T08:29:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=28602"},"modified":"2012-02-08T08:29:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:29:34","slug":"im-no-rooster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=28602","title":{"rendered":"I’m No Rooster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A friend of mine wrote a post<\/a> about trying to get back to the gym and how she’s just “no rooster.” I totally agree with her. So well-put! While I feel like a major success when I work out in the mornings, it rarely happens. I’m just not going to get up at 5 a.m. to work out. Ever. Even on the weekends when I work out in the morning, I’ve slept in a reasonable amount of time.<\/p>\n

The other day I had an appointment in the morning so I went to the gym first thing. It wasn’t quite as difficult to get out of bed at 6:15 and go to the gym. But I realized that working out in the morning, I don’t burn quite as many calories. The reason? I’m slow. Tired. Lethargic. There’s very little pep-in-my-step first thing in the morning.<\/p>\n

I struggled on the elliptical and skipped the weights because I just had zero motivation to that. My calorie burn was decent:<\/p>\n

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Gym Stats:<\/strong>
\n Time: 1:19<\/strong>
\n Calories Burned: 617<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before I went to the gym I had half a serving of plain Cheerios. When I got home I had my normal breakfast (2 scrambled eggs, 1 turkey sausage, beans and salsa). I had a mid-morning snack of coffee. For lunch I had 2 pieces of leftover pizza for 500 calories total.<\/p>\n

By the the afternoon I’d nearly 1000 calories of food and still had over 1200 calories leftover for the day. \u00a0I had an afternoon snack (apple, 90 calories) and was home with 1000 calories leftover for dinner.<\/p>\n

The reason I bring this up is because I realized that my mentality CHANGED when I worked out in the morning.<\/strong><\/span> Normally when I work out at night I look at food as numbers that I want to keep “in check” until I work out at the end of the day. I always feel like I’m restricting<\/strong>\u00a0myself when I work out at night. This is definitely the opposite<\/strong>\u00a0for morning workouts.<\/p>\n

When I work out in the morning, I feel like I’m trying to catch up all day long. I feel like I have to eat, eat, eat to catch up on nutrients. Instead of looking at food and thinking restriction<\/strong>, I look at food as fuel<\/strong>. I need fuel for my body–I eat a bigger lunch. I need fuel to repair my muscles from the morning fitness–I eat a bigger dinner.<\/p>\n

Is that mental shift unusual? I wonder. I wonder if that shift in mental thinking is more positive and healthy than living a life of restriction and numbers. I’m just musing out loud, really. The reality is that I’m 32 years old and for my entire life I’ve hated mornings. I just wonder if it could be changed.<\/p>\n

Please chime in!<\/strong><\/p>\n

And a quick update: I finally went in and got that blood test<\/a> for my thyroid. I’m glad I did! It was normal. I can go back to normal life without worrying about “What if?”! Until I find something else to be neurotic about, of course. \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n

QUESTION: Is your mentality toward food\/calories\/tracking different when you workout in the morning versus the evening?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend of mine wrote a post about trying to get back to the gym and how she’s just “no rooster.” I totally agree with her. So well-put! While I feel like a major success when I work out in the mornings, it rarely happens. I’m just not going to get up at 5 a.m. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,55,60,90,3207,101,104,107,123,2946,152,154,4303,246,247,298,307],"tags":[5529,5530,496,5527,5526,5531,1987,5524,5525,5528],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/roostertwo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28602"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28691,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28602\/revisions\/28691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}