Cannot sleep at all someone please help

tinkerbellang83

jelleigh wrote: »

So I don't have the science behind this but I had a health professional suggest having a protein shake just before bed. It breaks down slowly and they suggested that I would wake up feeling clear headed etc.. which I did. But again - no explanation to offer on why other than protein doesn't spike your sugar and helps with the sort of rebuilding that your body dies at night.

That would just have me up in the middle of the night wanting to pee lol

amy19355

kellyrosiemfp wrote: »

Hi All, when I restrict my calories to 1200 I do not sleep, I get about two hours if I’m lucky. Has anyone had something similar which have a remedy to help? I think it may be my blood sugar which is giving me insomnia. I am literally wide awake so alert and I can feel everything like I’m really jittery, it’s literally EVERYTIME :-( unless I eat 1700 I don’t sleep and so at the moment it’s either don’t lose weight or don’t sleep. I’ve tried oil of magnesium, banana before bed, sodium chloride, Melissa dream nothing is helping. Please help!

I see you haven't posted much yet, and wonder if you realize how much valuable information is here at MFP. Take the time to educate yourself so that you get the best of all effort you are putting into your fitness goals.

Read the sticky posts and browse the forum posts.
Use the app to determine what your daily calorie count should be. There is a ton of info on the dangers of under-eating because of incorrect calorie budgets.

The fact that you can sleep when you have more calories is a pretty big clue to me that you are not eating enough.

Emmapatterson1729

tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

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cmriverside wrote: »

I agree with everything @tinkerbellang83 says except that she used a TDEE calculator and that isn't the method Myfitnesspal uses, so if you use MFP, use the "Lose 1 pound per week" setting, use "Active" for the Activity Level, and add exercise into the Exercise tab and eat (at miminum) 50-75% of your calories required to fuel that additional exercise.

If you go by tinkerbell's idea, just eat 1700 every day and don't add back exercise calories. Myfitnesspal uses a slightly different calculation.

From Help at the top of every page: How does MyFitnessPal calculate my initial goals?

I would be unable to sleep on the amount of food and activity you are trying to do, too.

Please eat.

Sleep is the least of your problems, your body is very stressed.

That BMR x 1.6 is actually MFP's calculation not TDEE so OP should still be counting any intentional exercise above the 6 miles of walking i.e. running/strength training/sports/etc.

If she is consuming 1200 a day... Wouldn't that mean there is zero activity in her mfp equation... I thought the only way to get 1200 daily limit is to put max loss weekly and sedentary activity level, meaning she is not eating for her activity level (6 miles daily), much less, eating appropriate calories for her height and goal.

Not trying to disagree, just adding.

Emmapatterson1729

Latingal19 wrote: »

I’m not sure if anyone mentioned it already but try melatonin

That's why I originally clicked on this thread, was to suggest melatonin. But after reading through her stats, her body is under stress from not intaking enough calories for energy. Chances are it's over producing cortisol and adrenaline from the stress it's under, which is keeping her wired. Eating too low can be extremely dangerous.

Lillymoo01

Emmapatterson1729 wrote: »

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tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

cmriverside wrote: »

I agree with everything @tinkerbellang83 says except that she used a TDEE calculator and that isn't the method Myfitnesspal uses, so if you use MFP, use the "Lose 1 pound per week" setting, use "Active" for the Activity Level, and add exercise into the Exercise tab and eat (at miminum) 50-75% of your calories required to fuel that additional exercise.

If you go by tinkerbell's idea, just eat 1700 every day and don't add back exercise calories. Myfitnesspal uses a slightly different calculation.

From Help at the top of every page: How does MyFitnessPal calculate my initial goals?

I would be unable to sleep on the amount of food and activity you are trying to do, too.

Please eat.

Sleep is the least of your problems, your body is very stressed.

That BMR x 1.6 is actually MFP's calculation not TDEE so OP should still be counting any intentional exercise above the 6 miles of walking i.e. running/strength training/sports/etc.

If she is consuming 1200 a day... Wouldn't that mean there is zero activity in her mfp equation... I thought the only way to get 1200 daily limit is to put max loss weekly and sedentary activity level, meaning she is not eating for her activity level (6 miles daily), much less, eating appropriate calories for her height and goal.

Not trying to disagree, just adding.

That really depends. At one point I could put active with a 1/2 pound a week loss and still come up at 1200 BUT at the time I was close to 100 pounds while only being 4'11. Even now MFP gives me maintenance calories of 1200 at sedentary although, in reality, I am around 1500 calories without exercise instead.

neugebauer52

A shot of whisky or two makes me sleep like a baby - wife says, I also snore...

cmriverside

I had very scary nightmares on Melatonin. I also had no good come from "a shot of whisky or two."


OP,

kellyrosiemfp wrote: »

I upped it to 1500 and made no difference and incorporated magnesium citrate but again still didn’t sleep, will try 1700 just worried that I won’t lose, I seem to go off the rails at the weekend which is why I prefer to restrict more in the week :-(

When you posted the above, it was Day One on 1500. How are you doing now? If the scale shows a tiny uptick, just stay the course, you NEED to get up to 1700 as soon as possible. You will start losing on 1700, honest.