I recently started a low carb diet and now I can’t sleep?
I started a semi low carb Diet, which means I eat meat and veggies and cheeses for two meals of the day, and for the last meal of the day I eat what ever carby meal I want. It always helps me cut the calories and the junk food. But unfortunately I get this weird insomnia? Why is that? And what can I do to get to bed!
I have to agree, at least mostly, with the other two people who have answered your question. The reason you can’t sleep is that your body is trying to get rid of those carbs you ate too close to bedtime.
Any carbs you eat, whenever you eat them, should be healthy carbs — vegetables and fruits rather than sugary, starchy breads, cakes and cookies. And you’d be much better off eating them early in the day to give your body a chance to work them off. There’s an old saying that you should "eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a prince, and eat supper like a pauper." It works!
May 18th, 2010 at 9:11 am
That’s a really pointless diet. You want to eat carbs in the morning and protein for dinner because the sugars form the carbs cannot break down when you are sleeping. I’m not sure why you are having sleeping problems but I can tell you that you should reverse your diet or the actually is no point at all going on that diet. You would actuallybe healthier if you ate cake and soda and stuff in the morning than eating complex carbs at night.
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May 18th, 2010 at 9:19 am
That diet doesn’t make a lot of sense. My husband has diabetes and the last thing you want is to have carbs at night. Carbs act like sugar so it’s like your drinking a bunch of sugary sodas or having caffeine if you are having a high carb meal at night. So of course you will be awake. My husbands doctor makes him eat his highest calorie meal at breakfast because so he can burn off his calories during the day. People really should eat there biggest meal at breakfast or lunch since we are not active after dinner time.
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May 18th, 2010 at 9:36 am
I have to agree, at least mostly, with the other two people who have answered your question. The reason you can’t sleep is that your body is trying to get rid of those carbs you ate too close to bedtime.
Any carbs you eat, whenever you eat them, should be healthy carbs — vegetables and fruits rather than sugary, starchy breads, cakes and cookies. And you’d be much better off eating them early in the day to give your body a chance to work them off. There’s an old saying that you should "eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a prince, and eat supper like a pauper." It works!
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