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Gluten-Free and Up With the Birds

Oh my goodness. For years I  sleep exactly 9 hours each night. It is a burden. I have to schedule my life around it and it leaves less hours in the day. For 8 years prior to 2011, I took a two hour nap in the afternoon on top of the 9 hours of sleep each night to be able to make it through the day.

In December 2011, my nurse practitioner found the right mix of thyroid medicine that my endocrinologist refused to adjust to for the two years before that. God bless her. Since that time I don't feel the need to take naps in the afternoon, but I do get a tired from the day's activities and need to rest.

Up until now, I always blamed it on my thyroid issues that weren't discovered till 2009 and that my body just needed to rest and rejuvenate. I rest at 3 or 4p and usually eat a sandwich or pretzels or Doritos. Like any woman, I like to multi-task and I felt hungry by then anyway. After sitting, it was difficult for me to get off the couch and go on with the next part of the day.

For the last week, I have noticed that I am energetic for most of the day. I mean, ENERGETIC. Even in my 20's I didn't have energy like this in the afternoon. In the 90's, I drank coffee at 2p as a pick-me-up to make it through my last 3 hours at my corporate job. Once I boarded the train for my daily commute home I almost always would take a nap.

So three weeks gluten-free and I am getting up at 7a and staying up till 11p. No alarm clock, no reason to get up, my body is just waking up. To top it off my brain is awake.  For the last two days I have been up at 5:30 am. What?? I only do that for water skiing in the morning and that is only when I don't have a headache or food hangover. (See this blog:  http://health-a-licious.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-morning-after-food-no-food-hangover.html

So far, so good with the gluten-free diet. I think another week and after Labor Day I'll start looking into juicing.

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