Get the Appropriate Amount of Sleep

In my opinion, there’s a sweet spot to making sure you’re not pushing your body too hard while depriving it of sleep and to waking up when your body is done sleeping. I find as my body starts to get use to exercising, it just doesn’t sleep quite as long at night.

When I have worked out and not slept enough, I find the weight does not come off. Even if I’m eating really well. It’s kind of unreasonable to demand so much from our bodies and then deprive it of its recovery time.

I’m not advocating that we sleep all day either. My guess is if I eat right, exercise, and get a good amount of sleep (all on a daily basis), my body will want to do just about anything other lay in bed all day.