Sleep

I wrote a little about this in a previous entry, but I wanted to get a little more in depth about it.

One of my New Year's Resolutions was to get to sleep before midnight.  Well, needless to say, I did not fulfill that resolution... until now.  Because of my trip to the USA in early September, and the subsequent jet lag that resulted, I have been able to get started on that resolution.

When I got back from the USA on Friday the 18th, I got to sleep a little after 9pm.  I was just so tired.  The next two days, I got so tired during the day I took a long long nap and then ended up going to bed around 1am.  But that Monday, I was determined to stay awake and then go to bed early which is exactly what I was able to do.  For the next week and a half, I have been getting to bed between 8:30pm and 10:30pm.  One night, I got to bed around 11pm. but the next night, it was back to 9:30pm.  My big challenge was this Saturday night.  I was wondering if I would be able to, or would be motivated enough to get to bed early.  Thankfully, I shut off my computer at 10pm and did all my bed prep and got to bed by 10:30pm.  I have been sleeping before midnight for about two weeks.  I have steadily been waking up later and later.  Also, at the beginning, I was waking up several times during the night, but the last few days, I have been sleep through the night. I've been waking up around 6am so that is perfect for work.

Now, the reason for all this is because I heard from a video by Mike Chang, that sleep had a huge influence on fat burning.  I had also heard things like this from family members who are in the medical and health field the same thing, but had long since given up on the sleep thing.  But this has given me the chance to test it out. Does getting more sleep before midnight really help burn fat faster than not.  Well, I haven't been burning fat sleeping at 1-2am, so if I really start to lose my spare tire while sleeping early, I will be extremely excited and happy that I have finally found the secret that I needed to put me over the edge.

But even it if doesn't melt my fat away, I will try to keep up getting to bed early just because I know it is a lot healthier than sleeping like I was.  Getting 7.5 to 8+ hours of sleep a night is great because of the extra energy and just all around feeling I have.  I also love that the dark circles under my eyes are getting lighter and disappearing. YEAH!!!