Yes! I don't sleep badly every night but every now and then I'll have a phase of sleeping very badly indeed. The night before my wedding I didn't sleep AT ALL - despite taking sleeping tablets, and in the 3 nights following I averaged around 3 hours per night (and not from other bedroom activities!). Thankfully since the wedding it's been a lot better.
In a way sporadic insomnia is almost as annoying as sleeping badly every night because you can't plan for it - before you realise what's happening it's 1.30am and you haven't been to sleep yet and you can hear your husband BREATHING too loudly (he of course drops off immediately) and you've already poked him to make him turn away from you (so you can't hear it) lots of times. On our recent holiday I had alternate nights of sleeping well and sleeping badly. It is usually triggered by being in a different bed, something important (like getting married) that I have to do the next day - I start a new job on Monday and even though I'm not anxious about it I expect to sleep badly on sunday. Doesn't help that my husband works away during the week so I just get used to him being away and having a quiet cool bed to myself then he comes back with his raging core temperature and it's all hot and crowded and I can't shuffle about a bit to get comfy cos I'll wake him up and he's got to get up at 5 to drive down south again. He's back based from home soon though, so whilst I look forward to him being back I do wonder how my sleep will cope. Once I'm used to him being there all the time it should be fine.
It does kind of irritate me when my husband grumbles that he's not had enough sleep if he got like 6 hours - 'I need at least 9 hours to feel properly well' - when I have had to scrape by on 4 or less. It's one of those things that you just learn to get on with but makes you feel absolutely dreadful - I feel sick, tearful and generally weird and spaced out. Not to mention my spots get worse and I also get more hungry and sleep hasn't reset my hunger switches properly.
When I started 5:2 I slept like a log after a fast and felt like I'd slept really deeply and felt really groggy the next day. As time has gone on I've found it more difficult to sleep after a fast - the hunger overrides the tiredness - so I've started saving 70 cals for 2 small oatcakes to munch before bed as it really helps take the edge off the rumbles and I find oats very soothing too so it must help me sleep.
Gosh as usual I've written lots! It's one of those things that people that don't suffer from just do not understand - how truly awful it makes you feel. And nor will they ever truly understand the sheer bliss of waking up after a solid night's sleep following a bad night's sleep - the difference!
In a way sporadic insomnia is almost as annoying as sleeping badly every night because you can't plan for it - before you realise what's happening it's 1.30am and you haven't been to sleep yet and you can hear your husband BREATHING too loudly (he of course drops off immediately) and you've already poked him to make him turn away from you (so you can't hear it) lots of times. On our recent holiday I had alternate nights of sleeping well and sleeping badly. It is usually triggered by being in a different bed, something important (like getting married) that I have to do the next day - I start a new job on Monday and even though I'm not anxious about it I expect to sleep badly on sunday. Doesn't help that my husband works away during the week so I just get used to him being away and having a quiet cool bed to myself then he comes back with his raging core temperature and it's all hot and crowded and I can't shuffle about a bit to get comfy cos I'll wake him up and he's got to get up at 5 to drive down south again. He's back based from home soon though, so whilst I look forward to him being back I do wonder how my sleep will cope. Once I'm used to him being there all the time it should be fine.
It does kind of irritate me when my husband grumbles that he's not had enough sleep if he got like 6 hours - 'I need at least 9 hours to feel properly well' - when I have had to scrape by on 4 or less. It's one of those things that you just learn to get on with but makes you feel absolutely dreadful - I feel sick, tearful and generally weird and spaced out. Not to mention my spots get worse and I also get more hungry and sleep hasn't reset my hunger switches properly.
When I started 5:2 I slept like a log after a fast and felt like I'd slept really deeply and felt really groggy the next day. As time has gone on I've found it more difficult to sleep after a fast - the hunger overrides the tiredness - so I've started saving 70 cals for 2 small oatcakes to munch before bed as it really helps take the edge off the rumbles and I find oats very soothing too so it must help me sleep.
Gosh as usual I've written lots! It's one of those things that people that don't suffer from just do not understand - how truly awful it makes you feel. And nor will they ever truly understand the sheer bliss of waking up after a solid night's sleep following a bad night's sleep - the difference!
Wow! I feel so normal now 
