Food and UNdesired sleep

January 9, 2004

The conversation about premature wakening and carbs etc. is prompting this

question from the opposite end ...

I've always had a problem with falling asleep after I eat ... as in I fall

asleep and I don't want to. It led to the gradual development of the

habit of eating only once a day, in the evening - not necessarily a huge

amount at that one time, but still only once. I know now that for

various reasons I need to try to space it out more, but I still have the

same problem. I resist eating at all until late in the day, because I

know I'll get all sleepy and lose motivation, and " I have things to DO

first!! " .

I should say that in the past, I WAS probably eating a lot of bread etc.

stuff at any given meal, so that might have had something to do with it.

But the couple of times I've experimented just over the last couple of

weeks seem to have the same result anyway - no matter what I ate. I know

that at this point, my digestion is pretty bad, and I'm working on that - I

was thinking that perhaps part of the problem is that it's SO bad that it

makes that much MORE of the energy go to working on processing what I just

ate.

So, is there a point to this, you ask? Is there an actual question you

have, Ms. Jewett? Well, yes, there is! I was wondering if anyone had

any suggestions for things to try that might minimize this instantaneous

sleepy-headedness after eating ... at least for the time it takes to get

the rest of me back in order. About the only thing I can " eat " without

falling asleep right now is a glass of raw milk.

MFJ

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