A 2014 study at the University of Illinois found that employees who work in windowless offices lose an average of 46 minutes of sleep per night.

 

Its because our bodies need daylight to maintain their natural circadian rhythms.

 

Many people come to us with sleep (or lack of it) being one of the things that’s causing them problems.

 

A lack of sleep can affect stuff like hormone levels and balance.

 

Or it can be just as simple as being much harder to make better food and drink choices when you’re tired and low in energy.

 

For a lot of people, whether or not they’re going to sleep while has, kinda, already been decided by the time they get it bed.

 

It’s, almost, too late by then.

 

The stuff that’s happened to them during the day has played a huge role in the probability of them dropping off well, not waking, being able to drop back off again if they do, etc.

 

And, unfortunately, many of these sleep affecting things are things we’ve chosen to do to ourselves…….

 

Or not……..

 

Without realising they are relevant.

 

Here’s a few examples:

 

Caffeine

 

Tis a stimulant, of course.

 

If I had a pound for every person I’d met who drank a coffee late at night……

 

Didn’t generally sleep well…….

 

Insisted it had nothing to do with the coffee……..

 

Tried going without caffeine in the later parts of the day ……..

 

And then slept noticeably better………

 

I’d have, well enough pounds for a good night out or two 🙂

 

 

TV / devices

 

Although we use these as a relaxant……..

 

They are also a stimulant.

 

Firing hundreds of images a second into our brain just before we try and sleep…….

 

Might allow the body to relax……..

 

But the brain?

 

Not so much!

 

We’re not saying not watch TV, use your phone / tablets, etc.

 

But minimising it as much as possible for the last hour or so before bed can help a great deal!

 

 

Room darkness

 

LED lights from chargers, phones, etc.

 

Not completely blacked out windows.

 

## A room is only fully blacked out if you can’t see your hand in front of your face. In the middle of the day ##

 

Our body functions best with natural light during the day.

 

And complete darkness at night.

 

Production of melatonin and all that!

 

Black out blinds, or even shutters, are probably the most time and cost effective thing you can ever do to help you get in shape!

 

 

Hope these things help 🙂

 

Much love,

 

Jon ‘Baby Hall’s not helping my sleep’ Hall and Matt ‘Palladium’ Nicholson

 

P.S. As always, if you like the idea of an approach to health, fitness and weight loss that isn’t just “Eat less, move more” then here’s where you need to go –> myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting

 

P.S. Two ninja points for Matt’s middle name (without googling) as it’s a bit tricky!

 

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Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.