Do you have to read a book to fall asleep? Do you wake up in the middle of the night unable to get back to sleep? If so, let me ask you this...do you exercise on a regular basis? If not, that may just be the answer to your sleeping woes. There certainly could be other reasons for your wide-eyed condition, like too much caffeine in the evening, super high stress, or maybe you're a worry wart. However, for many of you, you're just not getting enough exercise.
You may claim that you are too tired to exercise, but if you exercised regularly, you might not be so tired! When you exercise, not only does it help you sleep better, it helps you to feel more alert during the day. When you choose day after day NOT to exercise, you get in a dragging, sleepy mode during the day, and then a not able to sleep mode at night, that becomes a vicious cycle. So, break the cycle. Test it out. We all love sleep, and we all need it! If you can learn to love a little exercise...you may just get more of it.
*Important note: don't exercise too close to bed time--you might get too wound up to go to sleep! Believe me, I know this from experience. Whenever my husband runs right before bed, he is a tad "chatty" in bed, and I usually fall asleep to him talking. :)
My husband arrived back in town from KY last night, so I slept like a rock....when he's traveling, not so much :-(
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