Do You Have Sufficient Healthy Sleep?

Let’s look at an incredibly important factor that plays a large part in your overall quest for fitness.

How satisfactory is your sleep?

Many people face problems in trying to achieve a satisfactory sleep. To maintain the best hormonal balance within your body and keep your metabolism high it’s extremely important to get the right quantity of good sleep each night.

This quality sleep is, of course, very beneficial in maintaining a slimmer you.

Conversely, if you sleep for too short a period, or don’t sleep well enough to properly rest your body, this poor quality sleep pattern tends to increase your weight! This lack of sleep tends to cause fat storage in the body and hormonal imbalance. The sad facts are that many of us don’t sleep as correctly and soundly as we could.

Apart from disorders in their sleeping pattern, many people are unable to relax sufficiently enough to enable them to forget their everyday worries and stresses.

Are you one of them?

Here are some tips which I’ve used personally to help fall asleep more readily each night.

1. Getting regular exercise during the day will help you to feel tired at night time. However do not exercise too much approximately 2 hours before you retire.

2. It’s best not to be hungry when you go to sleep. You will not be adding to your body fat just because you eat after say 6 to 7pm. Many very trim people eat small meals right before they go to bed each night. To satisfy your hunger a light healthy meal 30 to 90 minutes before you retire will ease your hunger pangs and help you relax and sleep better.

3. Any time after late afternoon, avoid stimulants like caffeine.

4. An hour or to before bed time try chamomile tea and/or mint tea. These calm you down at night and have a relaxing effect. A small addition of honey seems to help also.

5. Try a little ground nutmeg an hour or two before going to bed. Nutmeg is supposed to have a calming effect on the body. It’s not certain if this helps or not, but it doesn’t hurt and nutmeg is a good source of antioxidants also!

6. Clear your mind of stress and things to do. A tip to help is to make notes of things you need to do the next day. This clears the mind and helps you to feel happier that will not forget important needs. Instead of thinking of the next day’s itinerary, your mind is clear. Picture a favourite relaxing scene, e.g. on a beautiful beach, or in relaxing countryside with friends. Once your mind is on this, you’ll find sleep coming a lot more easily.

Many people use a lot of other ways to help them fall asleep, but remember to keep it natural. Taking sleep aid drugs will nearly always have side effects.

So try to sleep a little earlier from now on and forget the late night TV shows. Think of a leaner you, relax and clear your mind before sleep. Good luck and enjoy a more energy filled day, every day!
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