30 day sleep trial,days 17 to 22

This sleep trial has made me examine other possible causes for my tiredness, as getting more sleep hasn't made me feel less tired. One cause that is staring me in the face is that in the autumn I stopped doing much exercise at all except for the occasional walk and yoga class and the truth is that being unfit is also being tired. I've got myself into a classic vicious circle, exercise would make me feel less tired but I am too tired to exercise. The way out of this, as I see it, would be to have a thirty day trial of just doing something small every day to get back on the road to fitness,probably starting with doing The Five Tibetan Rites every day again and walking every day. Tim at Peak Progress is doing an eight minute workout every day and finds that small effort beneficial. During most of last year I was going to the gym three or four times a week after work and walking as much as possible. To go from that to a walk of just a mile or two once a week probably explains my lack of energy and definitely explains my expanding waist.

Other notes on the trial. Last night I was in bed a few minutes after midnight but it's still a lot better than my previous 1.30 or 2.00 am.

I still get up at the same time on my days off. Previously I would sleep in or get up and go back to bed for a few hours. Maybe those extra hours sleep now and then were all I needed to "top up".

Even though I have "broken" the trial at weekends I have not restarted and I still don't consider the trial a fail and will continue it. I have noticed that a lot of people who document their trials carry on after a "fail" and I have not come across anyone who restarts from day one after a missed day. Lil Duck still considered her giving up caffeinated pop trial useful as it moved her towards her goal of not drinking it first thing in the morning even though she still had some during the day. As Jane Wells says

Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.