Re: [fast5] insomnia, blood sugar and falling asleep?

If you look at most animals, esp. carnivores, they usually
eat a big meal, then go to sleep. It takes a lot of blood
to digest food, so the best thing to do is to be quiet and let
it digest. Meat is especially a lot of work to digest, but
carbs cause serotonin release, which makes people sleepy.

Which is why I did Fast-5 in the evenings for a long time.

However ... for me it also led to me having reflux at night.

Eating in the afternoon though, I often need a nap after lunch.
I'm thinking of moving back to 4-5 o'clock again, but stopping
eating a few hours before bedtime.

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:45 PM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have trouble with insomnia off and on...
>
> Today, I fasted, and around 4:30 I went to the health food store - they were giving away free samples of vegan chocolate truffles - close enough to break-fast time, so I ate a few, they were delicious.
>
> Then I came home and ate a big plate of beef, and a leaf of lettuce. I ate til I was very full. About 40 minutes later I became very, very sleepy. I went to bed and fell into a deep sleep. I would have slept all night, but my guy called and woke me, he needs to come over and borrow something.
>
> I am wondering, a big meal seems to do a blood sugar thing on me. But I wonder if it's the answer to my insomnia problem. Is that a healthy way to fall asleep?
>
> I would not make a habit of starting the meal with chocolate truffles, LOL.
>
> Thank you,
> Tamara
>
>
>

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