175.4 Sleeping More and Losing More

Today while working with Elizabeth, my Feldenkrais specialist, she mentioned that she had heard about an interesting study on NPR about the connection between sleep deprivation and weight loss during a period of "caloric restriction". I just looked this up on the NPR Science Friday website and found it! Ah, what a technological whiz I have become. The bottom line seems to be that with at least 8.5 hours of sleep combined with "caloric restriction" weight loss was achieved much more easily than for those who had 5.5 or less hours of sleep each night. Here's the link so you can go straight to the nitty-gritty scientific info. http://www.annals.org/content/153/7/435.short

But wait...I want to talk the the folks who can give me 8.5 hours of uninterrupted sleep! That would be a dream come true for this yo-yo sleeper. I just made that up! What to you think of that term for those of us who fall asleep and wake up a couple of hours into our sleep period and then bounce back and forth between sleep and wakefulness?

And for those who are curious about my voice/emotion work with Elizabeth, I can report that my diaphragm is much more relaxed, my upper lungs are much more open, and I'm beginning to feel more, little by little, which is probably much better than being hit all at once by a pent up wall of emotion that's been lurking within me for several decades. I think we are on to something and am very grateful for her help.