Sleep...YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!

slay0r

Can someone explain the following to me:

Go out on friday night and drink all night etcetc, get in on saturday morning and sleep half the day, feel energetic but tired at the same time so I do a run and a bike ride and feel tired that night again, fall asleep at 10pm and wake up at 9am. Feel even more awful than the day before. Spend a lazy day at home feeling tired all day, get 8 hours that monday night, feel slightly better yesterday and then get 2, really fitful hours last night and I feel better today energy wise. Can someone explain how my lack of sleep has helped me? I keep finding I have quite interrupted sleep, I don't let it annoy me it's just the way it is. Is this my body telling me I've had enough or is it just that I wake up? If I go back to sleep at that point at say 5am when I've gone to bed at 11pm then I feel like I've been drugged when I wake up again and I don't really snap out of it well.

Any ideas?!

Oh I should add I did 3 months having like 5 hours a night when I was seeing someone and I felt alright most days, it was a struggle to get up some mornings but apart from that I generally functioned better, it caught up with me by the weekend but even then it would be every fortnight I'd sleep for about 10 hours and feel atrocious the next day.

slay0r

buuuump

annehdavis

It is different for everyone hun:) Do a sleep log and figure out your best number. I HAVE to have 8 hours which is down from 12 hours ten years ago. I am hoping I will need less as I get older. I hate not being able to stay up late. Oh well hope that helped.

slay0r

Thanks for that, I'll try keeping a diary and seeing how it goes. I thought it might be linked to food too which makes it really hard to pinpoint. I thought I might actually be intolerant to something which is making me drowsy and sluggish anyway.

Anyone else got any ideas/experience in this?!

xNJAx

I absolutely have to have 8 hours sleep. Anything under that and I feel dreadful, anything over that and I feel dreadful!
My husband seems to be fine no matter how much or how little sleep he has.

I'm intolerant to wheat, gluten, dairy, potato, animal protein and avocado. If I eat any of those things I'll feel sleepy/lethargic and lack concentration. If I eat wheat and dairy together, I will almost immediately have to go to sleep for an hour - I can't stop myself! My boss jokes that I have narcolepsy because I've fallen asleep at my desk before now because of eating the wrong things at lunch.

If you also feel bloated / have stomach problems / headaches / cold type symptoms / skin problems it would be worth getting yourself tested. It makes a huge difference to how you feel by removing things you're intolerant to from your diet - that's if you even have to (I have medication now that allows me to eat certain things in moderation rather than take them out of diet completely).

All the best!