It’s Wednesday!
A reminder to all who would like to join me this Saturday at 0800 up the Peak, meeting at Tauroa Carpark. We will be picking a track in the morning and walking up. Please feel free to invite any friends/family and move it for March! All fitness levels welcome.
Speaking of walking, this may just be a remedy to help with the below:
Did you know that in the year 2020 the word Insomnia was googled more than ever before
In fact there was a 58% increase in insomnia searches. Thats shocking!!
It’s said that 1 in 4 people struggle with some form of insomnia related sleep dysregulation.
2020 rocked the world with a level of uncertainty we have never experienced before. For many daily routines were thrown upside down with ill fated consequences
When it comes to health and wellness, sleep is the foundation of everything. Sleep literally affects everything we do
The less you sleep the more likely you will …
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- Eat more food (particularly sweet food)
- Make poor decisions
- Be a moody pain in the butt
- Get frustrated and angry
- Struggle to learn and retain information
- Increase your risk of heart attack, heart disease, heart failure, stroke and diabetes
In multiple studies it has been shown that people who are sleep deprived on average consume an extra 300 calories per day
That’s an extra 70,000 calories a year or about 7kg of fat
The two main hormones that control appetite are Leptin and Ghrelin
Leptins job is to send signals to your brain telling you that you’re full or satisfied
Ghrelin’s job is to increase appetite
When you are sleep deprived leptin levels drop and ghrelin levels rise essentially making you hungry all the time and regardless of how much you eat you never really get to a level of satisfaction.
Here is my recipe of ‘Overeating’
Ingredients :
- Add some evening blue light (I generally find in the form of laptops and the T.V do the trick)
- Make sure the mobile phone is kept in the bedroom
- Avoid the sunshine during the day
- Avoid exercise
- Check your social media before you go to bed
- Keep the wifi on all night
- Worry about all the things that happened today
- Worry about all the things that may happen tomorrow
Method :
- Add all the ingredients into a big brain bowl and mix together
Icing :
- Simply keep watching netflix and don’t go to bed until after 12
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Seriously though
Here’s what I will be reading to my kids this evening
I suggest it might be a good read for you too
Paul ‘sleep deprived” and Krystie “see you up the Peak” Miller
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