Listen children all is not lost, all is not lost
Alright, I wasn’t completely honest in my last update. This jetlag thing is kicking my ass. I know that experts note a one day per time zone recovery period, and I was 12 time zones away, but I can’t believe this is going to go on 5 more freaking days!
According to some of my reading, one of the reasons I could be experiencing such a case of jetlag this time around is because of all the caffeine I drank on the plane. Going to and coming back from Thailand, all the flights had was Diet Pepsi (well, really, Pepsi Light or Pepsi Max, what the rest of the world calls Diet Pepsi & Pepsi One) and no caffeine free diet soda, so I drank a lot of caffeinated diet soda. So every time the drink cart came around, I sucked down a Pepsi Light. And on the 12 ½ hour Tokyo to Washington DC flight that followed the 6 hour Bangkok to Tokyo flight, I had a lot of caffeine.
And a lot of food, to be honest. My nephew is the type of person who can refuse free food. Apparently, I am not. At one point, he was sleeping and I was watching “Casino Royale” for the fourth time when a breakfast was served. We were given the choice of an omelet or pasta. I woke Tom up and asked what he wanted, and he said he wasn’t hungry. When the flight attendant came around, I ordered pasta for him and omelet for me and spent the next hour picking at his food while he slept.
I did that several times during the flights, to be honest. And sometimes when Tom didn’t finish his meals whole we were in Thailand. Let’s just say that I did not starve while I was on vacation. I ate just about everything in site and chugged beer like it was going out of style. I didn’t gain as much weight as I probably could have had I not been in better shape before I left, but I’m not in such great shape today.
I ran last night, but after only a few minutes my lungs were working overtime and hurting. I actually had to slow down much sooner than I would have liked to due to the labored breathing. It seemed excessive in its laboring, so I stopped after about 1.75 miles. Argghhhh…
Out of frustration will be born the solution. I just need to keep thinking that on the road to health.
According to some of my reading, one of the reasons I could be experiencing such a case of jetlag this time around is because of all the caffeine I drank on the plane. Going to and coming back from Thailand, all the flights had was Diet Pepsi (well, really, Pepsi Light or Pepsi Max, what the rest of the world calls Diet Pepsi & Pepsi One) and no caffeine free diet soda, so I drank a lot of caffeinated diet soda. So every time the drink cart came around, I sucked down a Pepsi Light. And on the 12 ½ hour Tokyo to Washington DC flight that followed the 6 hour Bangkok to Tokyo flight, I had a lot of caffeine.
And a lot of food, to be honest. My nephew is the type of person who can refuse free food. Apparently, I am not. At one point, he was sleeping and I was watching “Casino Royale” for the fourth time when a breakfast was served. We were given the choice of an omelet or pasta. I woke Tom up and asked what he wanted, and he said he wasn’t hungry. When the flight attendant came around, I ordered pasta for him and omelet for me and spent the next hour picking at his food while he slept.
I did that several times during the flights, to be honest. And sometimes when Tom didn’t finish his meals whole we were in Thailand. Let’s just say that I did not starve while I was on vacation. I ate just about everything in site and chugged beer like it was going out of style. I didn’t gain as much weight as I probably could have had I not been in better shape before I left, but I’m not in such great shape today.
I ran last night, but after only a few minutes my lungs were working overtime and hurting. I actually had to slow down much sooner than I would have liked to due to the labored breathing. It seemed excessive in its laboring, so I stopped after about 1.75 miles. Argghhhh…
Out of frustration will be born the solution. I just need to keep thinking that on the road to health.
posted by Mike at 7:59 AM
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