Second night - when will I feel better/lose weight?

[CorgiGirl]

LCG - yes there's a link between interrupted sleep and the two hormones (I can never remember them either). One is Leptin the other is Gh... something. Try googling Leptin and OSA / sleep apnea - there are quite a few articles out there on that. When you get good sleep, the hormones are well regulated. When the sleep is disrupted, the hormones are out of whack making it more likely to gain weight. Or some such .

I was just talking about these hormones with my endocrinologist, who recommended I get a sleep study when I didn't lose weight after exercising for two hours per day and eating 1600 calories per day for eight months. My sleep doc also talked about them.

The hormones are leptin and grehlin. One controls our feelings of fullness (leptin) and one controls our feelings of hunger (grehlin). When we don't sleep enough, our bodies make more grehlin and less leptin than they should, making us feel hungry all the time. (Accurate description of me until about one week ago.) I can honestly say that I have experienced fullness via my brain due to the hormone a few times this week. Fullness before used to be a distended stomach. Now my brain seems to be able to tell me I've had enough. I'm almost ecstatic. I haven't seen any weight loss yet, but if I keep feeling full I'm sure I will!

The wikipedia articles are pretty good (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptin), although the leptin article contains a lot of medical jargon.

[DreamDiver]

The subject line creates an image in my head of a cpap machine in a commercial using all the typical ploys for advertising:
Swimsuit calendar gals surrounding some famous guy with sparkly teeth and sunglasses in a red sports car with his thumb up.
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"Lose weight!"
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"Get more dates!"
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Then someone else speaks very fast in a lower volume explaining all the legal caveats, plus $500 shipping and handling.
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LCG - the good news is with persistence, good things will come. To be sure, it would be nice to have immediate results, but it took a while for you to get where you are. It may take some time to get where you want to be again. You may start to notice some immediate results. If not, hang in there.

[LCG]

That last post from DreamDiver was funny! But I have to agree (ever so relunctantly) Persistance, persistance, persistance.

CorgiGirl your experience is enlightening. I wish you well.

It helps to know that someone else is going through or has gone the things that you are dealing with. Thanks everyone.

[dgsupersleepy]

I have been doing CPAP for 3 weeks now. While I still have my issues (chapped skin - although better, leaks, & ripping my mask off), things are getting better...slowly. To directly answer your question, what I noticed is that I definitely do feel better, but I most certainly didn't wake up the next day, or even the first week and say "YEEESSS, that was awesome! I'm ready to rule the world again!" It has been a gradual thing that while I was very much watching for, just kind of snuck up on me to where I started noticing I was waking up easier, feeling more rested, and not dragging all day. Others may have noticed that immediate reaction, but I didn't. I hope this helps. While I still am addressing the CPAP machine issues to a degree, I put up my first post earlier asking for advice on how to stop being dependent upon taking Ambien CR. So slowly it gets better. Hang in there.

I too am hoping this will help with weight loss.