I did the 16 hours of fasting last night.
It was only hard around hour 8 when I stuck a 5-pound spiced pork shoulder butt roast under the broiler to sear it before putting it in the crock pot overnight. It filled the entire house with a heady aroma of thick, perfectly fried bacon. I was left wondering whether it was a shoulder or a butt (surely it could not be both?!), and whether it was a bad idea to eat undercooked pork if the surface was made of sizzly heaven.
Anyway, I woke at 8, but because of Torin instead of my alarm. And then he wouldn't go back to sleep, which is unusual (most often sleeps until 9:30 or 10). So, I'm up! Looking at the fitbit data was really interesting...
The days are practically the same!
18 wake times, 27 restless times. Exactly. The same 3 main (hourish*-long) sleep chunks. The same Torin feeding (the two pink stripes in the middle are me walking to and from his room around 4am). The same waking periods, and the same looooong restless period in the early part of the night. Hehe, I'm so predictable.
I guess the good news is that I was able to wake up by my 8:30 alarm this morning and actually get out of bed this time. And I do feel like I slept better, despite the sleep data, so perhaps the fasting made me sleep more deeply. The bad news is that I may have a really well-regulated sleep cycle, it is just perfectly acclimated to Torin's newborn nursing schedule of never letting me sleep longer than an hour or so.
Time will tell whether the fasting and big breakfast helped to reset my sleep schedule. And then... I need to figure out what to do about the laying awake all night thing.
*Not pronounced "whorish"... well fine, pronounce it however you want. If you can't tell already, I'm too tired for this grammar business.
It was only hard around hour 8 when I stuck a 5-pound spiced pork shoulder butt roast under the broiler to sear it before putting it in the crock pot overnight. It filled the entire house with a heady aroma of thick, perfectly fried bacon. I was left wondering whether it was a shoulder or a butt (surely it could not be both?!), and whether it was a bad idea to eat undercooked pork if the surface was made of sizzly heaven.
Who's a good dog?
Anyway, I woke at 8, but because of Torin instead of my alarm. And then he wouldn't go back to sleep, which is unusual (most often sleeps until 9:30 or 10). So, I'm up! Looking at the fitbit data was really interesting...
The days are practically the same!
18 wake times, 27 restless times. Exactly. The same 3 main (hourish*-long) sleep chunks. The same Torin feeding (the two pink stripes in the middle are me walking to and from his room around 4am). The same waking periods, and the same looooong restless period in the early part of the night. Hehe, I'm so predictable.
I guess the good news is that I was able to wake up by my 8:30 alarm this morning and actually get out of bed this time. And I do feel like I slept better, despite the sleep data, so perhaps the fasting made me sleep more deeply. The bad news is that I may have a really well-regulated sleep cycle, it is just perfectly acclimated to Torin's newborn nursing schedule of never letting me sleep longer than an hour or so.
Time will tell whether the fasting and big breakfast helped to reset my sleep schedule. And then... I need to figure out what to do about the laying awake all night thing.
*Not pronounced "whorish"... well fine, pronounce it however you want. If you can't tell already, I'm too tired for this grammar business.
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