Living ~400lbs

Category: Sleep

  • Side Benefits to Exercise

    …and I’m not saying anyone has to exercise.   Goodness knows a lot of the “Exercise Shoulds” do nothing but spoil the party.  But as I’ve tried to let go of the Shoulds and exercise for my own reasons, I’m discovering some things I didn’t expect. I’m generally sleeping better. Less low back pain. Walking or…

  • Fun with Breathing

        Manufacturer’s pic of my CPAP mask Sunday night (and Monday morning) I kept waking up due to my CPAP mask blowing a stream of cold air on my lip.   I thought it was perhaps an inadequate seal between the rubbery “nasal pillows” and my nostrils, but futzed around and eventually got back to…

  • What I’m Reading…

    An article on public policy vs academic research tackles salt, but I wonder if the same thing could not be said about dieting.  If you were an academic researcher, you’d have to persuade your institutional review board that you had considered the risks and obtained informed consent from the participants. […] But if you are…

  • Sleep Quote

    “It’s a bell-shaped curve,” she said, with just 2.5 percent of the population needing significantly less sleep than average. “The problem,” she went on, “is that 95 percent of us think we’re in that 2.5 percent.”

  • How Goes Daylight Savings Time?

    Most of the US switched our clocks forward an hour over the weekend.   At the moment, I’m mostly enjoying that it’s not getting light before 7am and the sun doesn’t set until about 7pm.  (Remember, I’m up at latitude 47 – we get almost 16 hours of sunlight in late June, and less than 9…

  • Correlations vs Causation

    You may have read that getting less sleep is associated with heart disease.  This one included a well-written description of how correlations are not causation.  Senior author Diane S. Lauderdale cautioned that the new report does not prove a cause-and-effect relationship between a lack of sleep and heart disease. “It’s important to say that this…

  • Importance of Sleep

    So far today I have: Woken up with a headache.  Repeatedly bumped into the bed while getting dressed.  Forgot my yoga bag when leaving for work.   Forgot to use my inhaler before going for a walk.    I am also feeling generally run down, achey, and lacking in patience/cope.  Also in monster need of…

  • Day in the life: Waking up

    Often I wake before the alarm. Usually I snuggle under the covers until it goes off.  The man of the house may already be up, but he knows I’m still “sleeping” until my facemask comes off. I have moderate “obstructive sleep apnea” (OSA) I sleep with a CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure machine) which is…