Comments on: The Transformation: Sleep

By: carrie

carrie — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 04:42:46 +0000

In reply to Jana. Thank you, Jana! I have updated the links. So grateful for you calling this out!!

By: Jana

Jana — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 18:24:23 +0000

Hey, Carrie – Just letting you know the link to the sleep article is broken; it’s just going to the home page of that website now. Which article were you referencing?

By: Pen

Pen — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 10:28:33 +0000

Thanks for all these tips. I had just come to the conclusion in my own life that lack of sleep was underlying a lot of other problems, so I have started implementing a lot of your suggestions. Thanks very much.

By: carrie

carrie — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:42:27 +0000

In reply to Chelsea. After a whole week of good sleep I started to feel things changing. Sleep is SOOOOOOO important! Fix those hormones - you can do it!

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 07:32:55 +0000

Carrie, about how long after you started this sleep transformation did you notice a change? I’ve been having some irregular cycles and I expect my hormones are a bit out of whack, so I’m thinking getting on some sort of a more reasonable, regular sleep schedule (I’m a severe chronic night owl-seriously, it’s bad! Haha) should help regulate that a bit better. But I’m curious how long it took for you to see a difference, and how long I might expect before I might notice a difference? Thoughts?

By: carrie

carrie — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:13:59 +0000

In reply to Keith. Keith - that's brilliant! What a fantastic discovery!

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:43:23 +0000

Excellent tips, I need all the help I can getting good sleep. So glad you’re sharing all of your experiences and knowledge with us — it has helped my life immensely.

I do not have a Swiss-Army knife of sleep tips yet, but here is one or two that I’d like to share that I’ve discovered ever since I started eating SANE:

I’ve suffered from insomnia for over 20 years and nothing has ever helped until a problem I started having while eating SANEly prompted me to discover a solution that works for me.

The problem: I was eating a veggie and tuna salad with low-fat Cottage Cheese for lunch every day at work. I loved the body results I was getting (three belt notches thinner!) but I realized that shortly after lunch-time I would crash HARD. I found I was just dead tired all at once and wondering how I was going to get through the second half of my work day without falling asleep.

After some google-research I found that many people experience a severe sleepiness reaction to Cottage Cheese because it is packed with tryptophan. Plus sitting in my lunch bag for half the day was “warming” it up enough to kick all that tryptophan into high gear.

I tested it by removing the Cottage Cheese from my lunch. Sure enough I didn’t experience any kind of sleepiness thereafter.

The best part? I now eat half a cup of low-fat Cottage Cheese an hour or two before bed every night along with a teaspoon of raw peanut butter and a cup of chamomile. I fall asleep fast, stay asleep ALL NIGHT (this is unprecedented for me) and I wake up naturally before my alarm every morning.

The biggest boon is that my mood is so much more stable now and I have lasting energy throughout the day, not to mention the benefits I’m sure it’s having on all my other metabolic processes.

I hope that tip helps at least one other person! Thanks to Carrie and Jonathan Bailor for your amazing books. Without SANE eating I wouldn’t be nearly as healthy and may not have discovered this simple fix for my own brand of insomnia!

By: Pam

Pam — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:21:06 +0000

A great book about sleep is HEALING NIGHT, by Rubin R. Naiman, Ph.D.

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By: carrie

carrie — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:55:11 +0000

In reply to BJ.

BJ – so glad you mentioned that – I had forgotten what it was called!!! I will add it to my notes above – THANK YOU!