Health Link: Looking to gain muscle? Buy Insomnia
By Groovybabe • Sep 25th, 2007 • Category: insomnia, stugglingI am going to stop using fitday all together. My problems with managing my food intake began when I stopped writing in my paper food journal what I ate, and the general amount of calories involved, and started logging every carb, protein, fibre and fat through fitday! I am positive that you can concentrate too much on that stuff.
I was doing good after the gym yesterday and fell to sleep - naturally - before 10pm. Actually, as soon as my head hit the pillow. But come 1am, I was wide awake. It has got so far past being funny that it is not, well, funny. Only last night I didn’t fall back to sleep at 5am, or 6am. I stayed up to get my son ready for school and got him a lift in so I could go back to bed. I slept from 8am until 1.30pm. It was the best sleep I’d had in weeks. Why is it insomniacs can’t sleep at the right time but bring out daylight and they can give the whole nocturnal environment a run for its money?
It’s starting to stress me out now, which I know is counter-productive to combatting it, but what can I do? I’m so tired that I cannot function in the day and my exercise is severely reduced, I can’t keep a track of my weight in the normal way I do because I don’t sleep long enough for my body to readjust over night and I find it increasingly hard to manage my calories because a) meal times are out of the window and b) being up all night makes it hard not to eat!!
And please, no lectures on staying awake all day and then I’ll sleep at night, it simply does not work like that! Today was the first time in two weeks I have given in to a daytime nap. I’ve suffered long and hard with insomnia but the last six months have been relatively sleep-problem-free. I have some things on my mind, which I think are at the root of this problem so that is what I have to sort out, and hopefully it will be open for business as usual.
In the meantime I will continue to try to do what works. I have to get into that 15 stone era, it is proving so elusive but its only a couple of pounds away.
Groovybabe is 14.11 stones today and has lost 6lbs at her last weigh in.
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Actually, I find a short nap is the best way to break the insomnia cycle. I think the secret is to just have a couple of hours.
I found Fitday to be worse than useless.
I suffer slightly from insomnia at times, too. And I end up feeling like crap when my sleep schedule is so messed up… so I am really feeling for you! I hope your sleeping schedule gets back on track soon!
What else happened a few weeks ago when your weight and sleep started being weird? Was it when you stopped your weekly social outing? Is it maybe that you need to be social again to be happier and then perhaps less stressed out and less to think about over and over when you should be sleeping ad dreaming about nothing??
Just another theory.
It just seems like there was a shift out of nowhere.
We want our GroovyBabe back!
I used to have exactly the same problem where I would be sleeping in the day and awake all night. I solved it by..er… moving to another country where the timezone fit my sleeping patterns perfectly. So that may not help you. But hey, turns out Japan is lovely if you decide to go for it
Ser Kai
It certainly worked with me. I slept 8 hours last night. Albeit broken sleep and with tablets but its more than I’ve managed in those circs for the last few weeks.
Chubby Chick
Thanks!
Betz
Well my social nights out stopped 5 weeks ago now and the insomnia started 2 weeks away but there is some link there, yes. I am doing what I can to solve things and I did sleep 8 hours last night so I am getting there. So much for the person who said my diet would benefit from giving up clubbing hey? It virtually destroyed it!!!
I am returning slowly. I am doing all the right things to get back on track. I am going to the gym, even when I dont feel like it. I am watching my diet and continuing to restrict my intake. It will slot into place and become easy again soon, I am sure.
Zanitta
Well I have a real love of Australia but its not feasible at the moment :’(
I too am suffering with insomnia. 2 hrs last night!
I planned to go swimming today, but I’m just too tired.
Can’t wait to see you under 16 st tomorrow.
Keep going,
John