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Sleeping Fit Tips

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One thing about having sleep apnea is that I am learning a great deal more about adjusting my sleep schedule and habits. Sleep is vital to our every day activities whether it’s working, parenting, writing, excercising or just living — we need to sleep. Sleeping improves our mental acuity, our learning and our memory. So what happens when you don’t get enough sleep or your sleep quality is poor: decreased mental acuity, decreased learning and decreased memory. Doesn’t sound fun, eh? So what is a person to do? What can you do, right now, today to get more sleep? To … Continue reading →

Fitness Confessions – Sleep Apnea

So after my sleep studies, I was diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnea. Aimee’s provided a lot of great information over in the Health blog about sleep apnea, so I won’t go into too much detail here about what it is. Adjusting to Sleep Apnea Being told you have sleep apnea is not something anyone wants to hear. The treatment course requires the use of a CPAP (Continuous Pulsing Airway Pressure) mask. The CPAP, when worn over the nose (in my case I have a nasal mask) will push air down to keep the tissues in my throat separate. This … Continue reading →

Fitness Confessions – The Sleep Study

I was appreciably nervous when I went in for my sleep study. Another confession time here, I actually postponed the study initially by two weeks because I caught a head cold. I didn’t plan to catch it, but starting just after Christmas; a head cold traveled around our family making the rounds and seemed to come back to our house every other week. But I only postponed by two weeks, so when the day of the sleep study came, I worked triple hard around the house. I wanted everything done. I had no idea what to expect when I went … Continue reading →

Tips for Fit Living

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It’s always great to kick off a new month with a new start. We get 12 fresh starts a year, if you look at it that way and in my way of thinking – a fresh start is the best way to kick off the first day of a month. So with that in mind, let’s look at some tips for living fitter, most of these are frugal in nature and don’t require a lot of changes in your personal habits – just a relative awareness. Fit Tips Balance Your Diet – Junk food schmunk food. Pay attention to what … Continue reading →