Day 4 already! I'm hoping things are going to be getting a bit easier for everyone now
It's a funny one that after I wrote about sleep last week, I went on to have 3 nights of terrible insomnia. I'm really hoping that's not going to happen this week again
The two main reasons for ensuring we get enough sleep during this challenge are:
1) If we don't get enough sleep, we tend to crave easy energy, and easy energy for me = sugar.
2) Too much sugar in our diets can interfere with our sleep quality, especially if we eat too much sugar before bedtime. Not only can it keep us awake later than necessary, but when our body is done processing it, the sugar crash can wake us up and keep us awake for a little while. It's a vicious cycle.
I think it's also important to mention that our digestive system works better when it's upright too
Guidance says we should aim for about 8 hours a night, but I know lots of things can interfere with this, as I learned last week. A top tip I use: sleep researchers say that after 30 mins awake, your brain no longer associates your bed with being a place of rest, and you will typically get back to sleep sooner if you get up for a while first.
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Hi Cooper27 this is interesting about sleep, I like everyone have restless nights but mostly sleep like a baby. As I tend to have plenty of exercise as I’m not the most laid back of people so like being busy and am enthusiastic.
What keeps me awake is a restless mind or noise and you are so right as the difference we feel after a good nights sleep sets us up for the day. So this is interesting about not staying in bed if we can’t settle.
I think the pandemic has some influence. Over Christmas, when I had 3 weeks off, I slept so poorly and not even a 10 mile hike in the snow could make me sleep. As soon as I returned to work I started sleeping like a baby again, I think because I had the mental stimulation to tire my brain out again.
Hi Cooper27, I find restless mind will keep people from having a good night sleep. It’s either difficult to fall asleep or unable to stay asleep. What works for me is meditation before bedtime, I do sleep and stay asleep like a baby. 😁👍
I’m glad you will give meditation a try.😊🙏 What I do is when I’m home, I open all windows to air everything out and get some sunlights in as rays of sunshine are best disinfectant. Hope you have a wonderful sleep tonight. 😁
Sorry, I don't think fasting is right for me/my autoimmune disease. I do time restricted eating at the moment, but that's about as far as I'm able to go with it.
I just do 10:14. I need to eat 3 meals a day for supplements/medication, and this is the most comfortable way for me to be able to spread out those meals without feeling like the Christmas goose
Maybe that should be 14:10, I'm not sure I got that the right way round! I eat breakfast at 10 and basically don't eat after dinner (so if dinner is at 6 or 7 one day my fasting window would be slightly longer)
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