I'm NOT a morning person

This is my first week of trying to do my workout before work. It's killing me!

I'm really not a morning person. I never set an alarm, but I usually wake up at 6am without one. I like to take my time waking up and getting ready for work. I don't like feeling rushed the first thing in the morning. I like my coffee and quiet.

Because of afternoon meetings at work, it's not conducive to a noon workout like I've been doing for months. I shower at the gym, but my hair and makeup (what's left of the makeup) are a mess. I don't look professional, I look harried and not put together. I usually come running into the office after the gym with my hair still wet from the shower and no makeup. I look like a different person than the one that arrived in the morning. I'm not making a good impression.

The alternative is a workout before work. OH MY GOD! I hate it! Hate it! Hate it! How do you people do it? 

First of all, there's that GD alarm clock going off at 5 frickin' AM. This morning I just wanted to smash that thing to pieces. Then there's my husband that wants to go to the gym with me. I know I should be happy about this, I've been trying to get him to the gym for months. But remember, I like quiet in the morning, I don't like a lot of conversation. Ha! Shoots that concept right to hell.

Then there's the cold, the freezing, chilled to the bone cold. The temperature has been hovering just above freezing at 5am. I may be from Alaska but there's a reason I left that place, I don't like the cold.

The other little thing I don't like about the AM workout is I'm about 100 times hungrier than normal by noon. Yes, that's right...I said by noon! Usually the 'I'm starving to death--going to die of hunger' pains don't start until late in the day or evening. A small snack doesn't help. I'm really craving a side of beef, I don't mean a side dish of beef, but half a cow kind of side of beef (I don't eat beef, but you get the idea).

There are some pros:

1. the gym is empty (but that will end Jan. 2)

2. there's lots of parking up front

3. my workout is over with and out of the way first thing in the morning 

4. it saves water because of one less shower during the day, good for the environment

5. I don't look like something the cat dragged in for my afternoon meetings

6. I have free time at lunch (big deal, so now I eat lunch at my desk, during my lunch hour, like everyone else)

I don't know if this is going to work out for me. I tried working out after work but I don't like getting home at 8pm, plus I found I spent too much time at the gym, my hour workouts turned in one and a half hours or two hours. In the morning or at lunch I have a set amount of time and can't go over it. I'm giving this morning thing a week to see how it goes. Right now I'm going home and going to bed...I'm exhausted.