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So Insomnia,inshomnia what’s the big deal?

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I am not sleeping much lately. Too much coffee? Working out late at night? Worried about everything under the sun? Yep. Yep. And yep. I am trying so hard to lose weight and I know that sleep is important. Especially when it comes to weight loss, but sometimes I go through phases where I don’t feel there is enough hours in the day/week/month. I jogged 2 miles at 130 am. Don’t worry, I wasn’t outside.:) I ordered some cards, I cleaned my kitchen counters, and I am watching the last episode of season 6 of Burn Notice. See, I am being productive.

I want to be the kind of person that goes to bed at 10 and wakes up at 6 am all chipper and ready for the day. But my dream life would be go to sleep at 3 and wake up at 10 or 11. I just feel so energized and happy and ready to roll at night. When I was an early 20 something, I worked as a credit card processor from 10 pm until 6 am. I am not that kind of night person. I don’t want to stay up all night 40 hours a week. There are some nights that I go to sleep at 12 or 1 am. So I can be normal, sometimes.

I feel like caffeine, plus my ADD (not diagnosed but I swear it is real) and my desire to get so much done messes with my sleep. I literally crash around 4 pm until 6 pm some days face down on the bed and that makes the cycle repeat itself all over again. I said I was going to chill on the naps and coffee for awhile because A-I have kidney issues if I have too much caffeine and B-because it messes with my sleep flow. But, Starbucks is our social spot. We go chill with the fun baristas and listen to the groovy music and get work done. And my bed is my happy place when I am worn the heck out after too many restless nights.

Anyway, I am going to try hard this week to drink coffee half as much and do all of my workouts before before 12 am:). I hope that whatever your sleep schedule is, that you are happy and that you are productive and working towards doing whatever makes you fulfilled and content. Signing off at 3:13 am!

simply~

Dee

 

 

So, I slept until 11:45 today, kind of refreshing…

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Since I have been a mom, there have been very few days of sleeping in like this. In this case, it wasn’t completely restful because I went to sleep around 3, woke up at 8 and then went back to sleep. That may not sound refreshing to you, but to someone like me who has been an almost anti-sleeper, it was amazing and still more sleep than I have had in a month. There is a guilty pleasure feeling going on when I wake up at lunch time. I am so glad that my kid is responsible enough to let me sleep and also feed herself on rare days like this. But at the same time I feel like a selfish person. But then I roll over and realize I must have really needed it!

I really want to get out today and do something, but my body is telling me to stay in and recover. The thing about me, is that I am not a sit around and do nothing kind of chick. The whole time I have been sick, I have been productive. Recycling things, donating, cleaning and changing the look of my space. I find the idea of being a couch potato quite repulsive, yet today my body is longing for the couch and my mind is longing to drive to Starbucks.

As much as I am a fighter of sleep, when I am sick, I sleep more deeply than any other time. Except of course when I wake up due to coughing. But, I can drift off effortlessly and my head isn’t spinning with all of the world’s problems. I look and the dark circles have lessened, and so had the sick look in my eyes. Perhaps besides being refreshing, it is the elixir I have been searching for.

I have the diet and exercise down pat and there is really no junk food in my house. But all of the magazines say that sleep is such a big part of weight loss. I am the kind of person that will sleep 5 or 6 hours for long, long periods of time and feel like it is my normal. But then after awhile I find myself just ornery about everything. When I started 21 Day Fix in October, I started realizing how I really needed to sleep longer than the 5/6 hours.

So, after all of these years, maybe it has gotten through my head that sleep is correlated with health and wellness. I lived so long on caffeine and little sleep, yet never had a feeling of satiety. I have felt antsy and overly annoyed by people and things and situations. As much as my inner 2 year old wants to fight sleep for fear of missing out, I am beginning to enjoy and appreciate the benefits of more rest. The fact that I have finally learned what apparently everyone else knew is just as refreshing as sleeping ’til noon!

simply~

Dee

I have always thought that people that sleep well must have a good conscience…

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So, last night I fell asleep around 745 or so and woke up at 830 to tell my child that she was past time to go to bed.  My body was simply unwilling to allow me to get up and prepare for the next day. So, I got the bright idea to stay in bed until well, today. By 930 or 10 pm, I was itching to get up and check my email and peruse the news and Bravo and read a book or do laundry. I am actually a nocturnal creature trapped in an opposite sleep world. I also do not enjoy sleep. I feel that if I am in bed too long that I am missing out on something. But I stayed there all night-it was overdue to be honest.

I wonder if things that I did in my teens and 20’s that were unscrupulous is what haunts me. Or, if it is the whole solving the world problems thing. Or, if it is the way that I yelled at my ex for the millionth time, or was more impatient that I should have been with my daughter over something trivial. In other words, perhaps I have a checkered past ;), or I am super worried over those things which I have no control over-which is a lot!

I wrote this long spiel on Facebook and a friend told me to read Matthew 24 and Genesis 6 and it was spot on. Scary, but spot on. I feel like I am one of those old southern people that is putting the fear of God in people or something. But I for the first time do wonder and worry a lot about when the world will end. Maybe if I had the clear conscience that others have I could sleep like a baby at  night. 🙂

My mom is one of the sweetest, kindest and most generous people I have ever met and she can take a nap at the drop of a hat. Maybe I should take a play out of her playbook and see what I can do in order to get in the bed at anytime and fall into a deep slumber. But maybe I am just one of those people that makes coffee nervous and am not destined to be a good sleeper.

Simply~

Dee