Re: Eating, T3, fat burning and sleep

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That's another interesting aspect....

I know that body expends a lot of energy during sleep. Actually uses more calories sleeping than watching TV.. if the sleep is deep and restorative.. it has to do with how the body enters that deep stage where it gets all it's repair work done. If you don't have enough of the tools to do that stuff it doesn't get done...

Tools could be a few different things... if you are feeding your metabolism during the day so that it's in a high burn then your body is free to use fat energy during sleep cuz it KNOWS that you are going to eat a proper breakfast.... so it has all kinds of fat to draw from for it's work... but if you aren't eating to stimulate metabolic rate during the day, the body shuts down during sleep, from it's point of view it can't burn up fat cuz it's not getting enough to eat.. therefore it doesn't get all the repair work and growth stuff done each night....

Then you have that whole T3 thing... the body needs food energy for conversion, if the T3 receptors aren't getting filled during the day when food is being eaten, there isn't enough T3 in those receptors for the body to get all it's stuff done during the night... and again... growth and repair tasks aren't being accomplished...

I think too much about this stuff... heehehhee

So if the one of the major purposes of sleep is for the body to grow and repair daily damage, and it can't do that work... does that cause us to sleep less well cuz the body can't go through all it's supposed to do during sleep?

My sleep last night... I had a mini meal about an hour before bed. took my vitamins and such with the meal, as always. At bedtime I took my last dose of thyroid (multi dose natural thyroid sublingually), got my pillows and every thing all situated. Turned my sound machine to 'summer nights' (crickets) and konked out. whoosh I'm gone now.. no more tossing and turning. I woke this morning... I had rolled over to my side, but the blankets were not all mussed up.. so no tossing and turning. I slept soundly. I woke about 10 minutes before my alarm... Ready to just hop out of bed.

That is the way to wake up... ready to start the day. No pain, not tired.. .just Hey.. new day, lets GO!

I did my morning scooting around, bathroom break, grabbing breakfast, starting up puters and all that happy stuff while my morning dose (natural thyroid, sublingual) dissolved and when it was done I was in front of the puter slurping soup and reading emails.( I like soup when weather is warm, its light on the tummy and sneaks extra fluid into me for a day of heat)

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On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:39:37 -0700 (PDT) PAC writes:

This is very interesting since gastric bypass patients all seem to have sleep problems. I take 1/2 an Ambien every night. Before bypass, I slept great.Peggy