Sleep can boost weight loss?!

These are the amazing words I heard this week at my meeting.  This is even the focus for our entire month's worth of conversations.  Wow, is all I can say.  If you know me even a little bit, you will know that I LOVE to sleep.  I can sleep in a car, on a plane.  I learned when Lucas was a baby to sleep holding him, using my shoulder as a pillow.  I look for any point in a day when I can nap.  I feel that my naps yield the best sleep. Why?  It's a choice.  Plain and simple.  I get to choose to lay down, so my mind isn't running thinking about how I can hit the snooze until 520 if I just do my "crunchy hairstyle." I can just lay my head down and nap.  no worries about what the next day will bring.  I still have plenty of time left for that in my day once I wake from my nap.

I hit the snooze button an average of 60 minutes each morning.  I can't help it.  I don't just pop up out of bed.  I never have.  I used to use my Mom as a human alarm clock in high school.  To hear sleep can help me lose weight, I'm on board!

The studies said you need 7-8 hours of quality sleep each night.  Typically this is not an issue for me, though I do start hitting snooze at 4 am these days so going to bed at 9 gets me just 7 hours of quality sleep.  This is all assuming I'm able to turn my  brain off in order to fall asleep shortly after hitting the pillow.  This is a goal I'm going to work on, but I also only get about 2 hours of non-kid time a day assuming Lucas is in bed by 8 and I'm in bed by 10. Sometimes less or more for each of us!  I do think that I will be able to sleep better if I feel I have gotten some me time in for my day.  We'll see.  Maybe I snooze less in order to make up for a later bed time.  YIKES!

In the next couple days, I'm going to write a new post about my "silent partner" in this whole weight loss journey.  I feel that I haven't given it as much attention as I should and so for now I will leave you at that.

Thanks so much for your continued support!  I owe my success to you all as well.  The thought of letting y'all down keeps me going as much as letting myself down.  I'm making a change and for the most part, I'm having fun with it.  Sure, there are days when I want to just eat what and how much of what I want, but there is plenty of time in life for that.  For now, the goal is weight loss and I'm here to prove I can do it!

Losing it,

Lisa

Please pardon any typos.  I did not proofread, just typed this one and called it a day!