{"id":17100,"date":"2015-04-20T10:06:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=17100"},"modified":"2015-04-20T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:06:18","slug":"all-the-sleeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2015\/04\/all-the-sleeps\/","title":{"rendered":"All The Sleeps"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m usually in bed each night by 8pm, 8:30 at the latest and asleep by 9pm or 9;30pm. \u00a0Yeah on a few rare occasions I might be up later but not often because I will not have quality sleep if I go to bed any later. \u00a0Leaving me feeling like\u00a0crap the next day which is not worth it.<\/p>\n

Is this early? Yes. \u00a0Are most people stunned when they hear this? \u00a0Absolutely. \u00a0Do I give a flip what others think? Not at all.<\/p>\n

The biggest question I get asked is, “How do you manage to get to bed so early?” \u00a0And my answer is because sleep is a priority for me.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not sleeping well throws my whole system out of whack. \u00a0Digestion goes off track and sleep quality decreases. \u00a0I wake up more during the night while having trouble falling back to sleep. \u00a0The next day I feel like a zombie and have trouble focusing on projects.<\/p>\n

Early for me used to be 9pm and I would read until 10pm. \u00a0But as I get older I’m finding that 9pm is too late. \u00a0Oh I’m sure I’ll be the stereotypical retiree who is in bed by 7pm each night and I’m OK with this.<\/p>\n

When clients tell me they have trouble getting to bed early, I’m upfront with them about it. \u00a0I don’t sugar-coat when I’m coaching. \u00a0The reason you are having trouble getting to bed early is because you are not making sleep a priority and not deeming it as something important to you and your health.<\/p>\n

Just like with meal planning and exercising, sleep should be considered important and if need be, put it in your schedule. \u00a0Everyone is “busy”. \u00a0Everyone has stuff to do. \u00a0But in order to work at our best we need that downtime in the evenings. \u00a0Body and mind need that time to rest.<\/p>\n

So I’ll brush off the comments when someone makes fun of my early to bed routine because I know that I’m doing what’s best for me. \u00a0And in the end, that is all that matters.<\/p>\n

Andrea is a Certified Holistic Health Coach with a Primal Focus. \u00a0She specializes in helping people get motivated to start eating well and living a healthy lifestyle. \u00a0She offers one-on-one coaching and frequently runs FREE challenge groups. \u00a0If you'd like more information about coaching or joining her next group you can email her, Andrea AT FoodEmbrace.com<\/em><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m usually in bed each night by 8pm, 8:30 at the latest and asleep by 9pm or 9;30pm. \u00a0Yeah on a few rare occasions I might be up later but not often because I will not have quality sleep if I go to bed any later. \u00a0Leaving me feeling like\u00a0crap the next day which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-4rO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}