Not sleeping enough.

I've heard it's vital to get 8 hours or you'll hold water. I normally only get around 6 or so if I'm lucky. While fasting I'm getting around that but it seems like better sleep without waking up. I wake up fired out of a cannon and ready for anything! With no chance of falling back to sleep. Is it OK? Or will this catch up to me eventually?I'm also wondering if this is from cortisol or if I'm just functioning more efficiently as an organism. Other than minimizing caffeine is there anything else I should be doing? I've already added stretching and daily meditation. As always thanks to all of you for being so knowledgeable and patient. I would have struggled mightily turning my health around without your collected wisdom.

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Everyone is different. Good sleep hygiene is going to sleep when tired (not at a set time) and waking up at the same time each day. Eventually you’ll wake up at the same time without an alarm clock. The key is to go to sleep when you’re tired, sometimes that 10pm sometimes it’s midnight. Caffeine, eating late, blue light will all impact when you’re naturally tired.

People run into problems because they use lay ins to make up the shortfall when really the lay in should be gained by going to sleep earlier the night before.

If you’re jumping out of bed when you wake then you’re waking up in-between sleep cycles, which is ideal.

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yeah, that sucks

longer fasts are easy for me, after i get over the first 24h

but i have a hard time falling asleep after \~50h of fasting.

so i have to force my self through the hard part again and again if i want to get my normal amount of sleep