Sick and Fat and Really Successful
I ran into my new best friend Kevin this morning while we were picking up our daughters from kindergarten.
Me: Hey! How's it goin?
Kev: Great. I finally got some sleep.
He went on to tell me about a story he heard about on NPR (and I hope he was joshin' me and I really am about to start a new urban legend, but i don't think he was) that had linked not only health and sleep, (eg. you sleep more -- you're more healthy) but also linked sleep to weight loss. Something about the saratonin or the hemoglobin or the bipartisan or the string levels in your body are replenished when you sleep. And if you don't have those levels right -- you can't even burn fat or calories correctly.
And here's where the world all went out of focus and blurry for me. I felt the hall spinning. He says: "You need ten hours of sleep a night to get those levels right."
TEN HOURS OF SLEEP!
I stumbled down the hall. Jaelyn and Addison had run ahead and were probably running around in the parking lot in the rain without jackets on. I called back down the stairs:
Ten Hours!?!?
He shrugged.
So I guess I'm going to be sick and fat until: 1.) I quit my job or 2.) my kids grow up.
well i'm kinda tired, and since every minute that I type into this blogging window, I'm adding a centimeter to my waistline...
i bid you...
peace~
Me: Hey! How's it goin?
Kev: Great. I finally got some sleep.
He went on to tell me about a story he heard about on NPR (and I hope he was joshin' me and I really am about to start a new urban legend, but i don't think he was) that had linked not only health and sleep, (eg. you sleep more -- you're more healthy) but also linked sleep to weight loss. Something about the saratonin or the hemoglobin or the bipartisan or the string levels in your body are replenished when you sleep. And if you don't have those levels right -- you can't even burn fat or calories correctly.
And here's where the world all went out of focus and blurry for me. I felt the hall spinning. He says: "You need ten hours of sleep a night to get those levels right."
TEN HOURS OF SLEEP!
I stumbled down the hall. Jaelyn and Addison had run ahead and were probably running around in the parking lot in the rain without jackets on. I called back down the stairs:
Ten Hours!?!?
He shrugged.
So I guess I'm going to be sick and fat until: 1.) I quit my job or 2.) my kids grow up.
well i'm kinda tired, and since every minute that I type into this blogging window, I'm adding a centimeter to my waistline...
i bid you...
peace~
posted by Redbaerd at 11:25 PM
3 Comments:
He's right and I just heard that every hour you sleep before midnight is worth FOUR after midnight---so you can go to bed really early and get up really early!!! I love you it was hilarious!! guess who????
andrew, he wasn't "joshin'" you... i heard it too. and i also think it's preposterous! i don't think a typical, motivated, (over)committed adult can possibly get 10 hours, so don't even try. just cut out the carbs... ha! another impossibility!
-kleman
My dad had the best retort of all.
10 hours of sleep per night means that we lose at least 1+ day of activity per week, close to 2 months per year, 1 year every six years, by the time you're 36, you've lost 6 years sleeping...hmmmmm...I guess you choose between living longer sleeping or living longer awake...i remember knowing, as a kid, that my dad woke up at 5:30 in the morning every morning! I was astonished and amazed by this fact. Now, when I fumble with the coffee bean grinder every morning at 5:30ish, I wonder...
what else will make sense to me later that amazes me right now?
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