Last weekend I stumbled across a “woman’s” magazine. You know the kind—the ones with ten tips to the best sex ever—ten tips to more manageable hair—ten fashion “must haves” for the coming season—and blah, blah, blah. While ruminating over how much paper gets wasted on the same tired subjects, I landed on one that made me shake my head.
Ten tips to losing weight. Geez, I thought, only ten? What…eat less…exercise more?
Get your stomach surgically excised?
Wait a minute. The tenth one caught my eye: “Make sure you’re getting enough sleep.”
Yeah, right. Who were they kidding? Wasn’t that counterintuitive?
Then, I read on and (gulp) the explanation actually made sense. It turns out that when we don’t get enough sleep, we screw up a couple of hormones. Important hormones. Guys involved in things like fat storage and appetite control.
Ding, ding, ding!!!! Eureka!!!!
When I started writing, I decreased my per night sleeping time by about two hours. No wonder I gained weight!!! I need to spend more time in bed than at the computer!!
Wow…if only all our problems could be solved so easily.
Click here for one of many articles I found on the Internet.
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I noticed you changed the line from you needed to spend more time 'SLEEPING than at the computer' to 'IN BED than at the computer'.
Interesting slip, missy. Must be all that romance writing. :-D
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