So tired today, woke up unrefreshed and feeling flu-ish and with a twitch in my left eye which has gone on all day. In an effort to understand why I am more tired since I began this trial than before I have been doing a little research. I came across this article from the Observer which mentions "we should realise that the key to feeling energetic and focused in the morning is what we do in the waking hours, not whether we are getting enough time with our heads on a pillow. Even those who wake up frequently at night are probably getting sufficient sleep." and that "Sleep, or rather our frustration at not having enough of it, is the new health obsession". Which leads me to wonder if I am just blaming lack of sleep for my lack of energy when it's something else I should be examining. Without doing the sleep trial I would not have arrived at this train of thought and would have continued to assume that I needed more sleep without looking elsewhere for reasons for my fatigue. Of course I will continue the trial. I might actually just have a virus and one morning I will wake up full of the joys of spring. If the 30 days comes to an end, having the effect of establishing a habit of going to bed before midnight (which IS becoming an automatic thing to do) but still feeling like a limp dish cloth then obviously I need to try something else.





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