Re:Eating, T3, fat burning and sleep

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Please tell me that someday I might have energy to get out of bed and, even more, stay of bed. I have this weird thing about getting up, feeling fairly decent and then an hour later, after breakfast, I need to go back to sleep and when I do, I fall into a dead sleep for about an hour and then I am better able to start a normal day.No, I didn't know all of this stuff. Maybe I should just sleep for a month. Of course, I would have to take a pill every night.In another post, you mentioned various aches and pains, my joints have been aching more than usual and my back is so stiff in the morning I can hardly move. You mean we might be able to fix that, too.topper2@... wrote: 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) Topper () _. Peggy in TN

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Some day you WILL have the energy to get out of bed and stay out!!!

Just in case you missed the first line....

YOU WILL GET OUT OF BED AND STAY OUT AND BE HAPPY ABOUT IT!!!

oh.. sorry.. didn't mean to shout.

Can't say for sure that pain in your back will go away, depends on what is causing it.. for me it was pain in the cartilage between the ribs.... there is a came for it.. starts with a C... inflammation of the cartilage.. someone I'm sure will remember the name...

Getting my T3 levels over night up is what allowed my body to settle that down.. Inflammation gone, flexibility back, pain gone. So stupidly simple.. but did anyone catch it??? no.. had to learn from someone here... we have SMART people here you know!!!

Being tired an hour or so after waking.. I still have trouble with that some days... depends on how active I was the day before.. how much sleep I'm getting (I'm often sleep deprived here cuz of noisy inconsiderate house mates) and hydration... Sometimes if I start sucking water I can wake up again... I dont' have a good thirst reflex so I have to work on drinking enough.. with summer coming and the house being even hotter I'm back to monitoring water intake.. setting out my jars (now I'm using quart jars) and setting a goal on how much I need to swallow in a given period of time to try to make sure that I get enough in me.

You've read, I'm sure, about my gimpy arm... it was getting better, being careful with it with stretching and lifting helped a lot.. but I was still having trouble sleeping.. it was stiffening up over night... Last Monday I vacuumed and really messed it up again. Couple of days I ended up breaking down and doing some OTC arthritis pills, just to knock it out, to make it relax, it was all tensed up from hurting, even hurt to type.

Two days ago I banned myself from using my Palm. I was spending several hours a day texting into it... Using the little stylus to type on the screen (back to typing on the keyboard more again)and I think it was contributing to my waking arm stiffness... too many hours in the same position.. so technically a repetitive stress deal.... well.. this morning my gimpy arm wasn't stiff I haven't even thought about it really.

My conclusion is that I'm still dealing with tendons and joints that aren't lubricating as well as they should.. I need to keep more mobile... on that train of though I'm kicking up my mini breaks at the keyboard.. stretches and range of motion stuff for every part of the body that I can move from the position I'm in (which varies if I'm sitting at the regular desk or in my chair desk - I need to take a pic of that rig so that you guys can see how cool it is... ) I just know I look epileptic when I'm doing my 'thing'... I try to do it for a few minutes every 30 minutes now... just to keep all the lubricating juices flowing in tendons and joints.

Can you just picture me? I stop typing.. do some head rolls.. then some shoulder rolls, then do these boxer motions toward the ceiling, then straight ahead, then side ways... then these side twist things.. then the butt cheek crunches combined with a hip roll... reminds me of a dog scratching their butt on the rug!!! Then some stomach crunches and back arching stuff. But it loosens stuff up and then I can hunker down and get back to what it was I was doing...

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On Sun, 20 May 2007 13:17:50 -0700 (PDT) PAC writes:

Please tell me that someday I might have energy to get out of bed and, even more, stay of bed. I have this weird thing about getting up, feeling fairly decent and then an hour later, after breakfast, I need to go back to sleep and when I do, I fall into a dead sleep for about an hour and then I am better able to start a normal day.No, I didn't know all of this stuff. Maybe I should just sleep for a month. Of course, I would have to take a pill every night.In another post, you mentioned various aches and pains, my joints have been aching more than usual and my back is so stiff in the morning I can hardly move. You mean we might be able to fix that, too.