Sleep is good for you. Who knew!?!

 Fact: I don't get enough sleep.

 

It’s absolutely true that people who don’t get enough sleep either gain weight and have a hard time losing weight. Sleep is important. I don’t get enough sleep. 

On average, I get about 6 hours of sleep a night. Sometimes more, sometimes less. The experts say you should get 8 or more hours of sleep a night to properly rest your body. Ouch. I don’t.

Last night, I hit a wall. I had been staying up late both Sunday and Monday and by last night, I had had it. I couldn’t stay up one. More. Minute. I sent my “Good Night, John Boy” tweet and went upstairs. (please tell me you watched The Waltons when you were a kid, too. Otherwise, that John Boy reference is completely lost on you.)

Chloe and I went to bed around 7 o’clock (not even kidding). We watched some TV and before I knew it, we were out. I woke up at 9 and brought Chloe to her room. Jason was still awake downstairs watching Lost. Kaitlyn was with him, but fast asleep. I went back to sleep and woke up again at 6am. That’s a total of 10 1/2 hours people. I must have needed it, bad.

But, sadly, it’s not realistic to get that much sleep a night. I’ve got too much to do and can’t really start it until after the kids are in bed. I do my blogging stuff at night when the kids are asleep and it’s really the only time. And, it’s my time to relax and sort through my day. Jason is usually asleep by 9 (he gets up at 4am to go the gym, weird robot). It’s peaceful. I used to have issues staying up at night because I would snack on stuff. But, lately, nope. I haven’t eaten anything at night after dinner, unless it’s a Skinny Cow ice cream cone (OMG those are good!) and Jason and I usually have those together (cue the “awwwwwws” haha). So, anyway, I don’t have those triggers at night and that’s good.

So, either I need to quit my blog (NOPE) and go to bed or find a way to go to bed a little bit earlier but still get things done at night. I don’t know.

Sadly I can’t take a mid-day Costanza nap—that would be great!




Whatever it is, I do realize how important sleep is and depriving yourself of sleep does nothing good for you. Do you get enough sleep? When you don't, does it affect your diet?