Sleep. Becoming an Unnatural State?

It seems that sleep should be somewhat of a natural thing. I am VERY fortunate that I haven’t ever really experience disruptions to my sleep. Ok…there was my daughter when she was born…but only for about two weeks…she’s a great sleeper as well. Like dad, like daughter! There have been some occasions that I have chosen not to sleep because of events and the like… I called it college! When I do miss an episode of sleep or two, I can tell you that I am worthless. Physically, mentally and even spiritually I do not respond the same as normal.

We have become a 24/7 society that has the ability to access almost anything we want at anytime. If you can’t sleep, you can surf the web for any topic you want. So you get up and Google Sleep Disturbances and read for the next 4 hours why you’re not sleeping. You can go turn on the TV and watch one of the 5000 channels you have. You can read a book…ok, who actually READS anymore?!?! You can listen to a book or your iPod until it’s time to get up.

More and more frequently I have clients coming to me that are not getting the results in their exercise programs, because they are not sleeping. When I try to address this area, they look at me like I have two heads. I get the same response consistently,

What does not sleeping have to do with me not losing weight?

The bottom line is that not enough sleep makes you fat, hungry, impotent, hypertensive, and cancerous with a bad heart! Sounds like I’m exaggerating, I know, but it’s what happens and what I’ve seen.

I could give you all the resources so you could spend sleepless nights going through all the research and articles, like I have… or you could just read this one very good article in Men’s Health, entitled Good Night, and Good Luck, to get much of the info.

Hopefully, if we are lucky, the article WILL put you asleep!

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