As soon as I wake up, I reach over to turn off my alarm and stick the thermometer in my mouth. I let the beeping after it takes my temperature act as a second alarm lol.
Of course I'm balls deep with my third week of loading a la 5x5, so there's no way in hell I could start cutting cals! I made it through deadlifts yesterday somehow, so one down, three days to go. I'm trying to take it one day at a time because IA really nailed me to the cross (metaphorically speaking lol) with the weights! Very aggressive loading IMHO... Which is a good thing because had I been plugging in my numbers myself, I would've been about 30 lbs less on everything.
Here's an example. Last week I ramped up my bench (5x5) to 305 x 5 (week two).. Wasn't bad. This week I'm looking at ramping up to 335 x 5, and that's week three!