Evening Training.

Have NO PROBLEM falling asleep after evening training as evening training is about all I have time for at the moment. 

I'm kinda like the cartoon charater Beetle Baily.....I can fall asleep as soon has my head hits the pillow.  My wife as actually heard me hit the heavy breathing (almost snoring) within minutes.  It's a GIFT!! 

I think everyone's body reacts differently.  I am another one that has no problems falling asleep.  I can run 3 miles at 9pm and be sound asleep within an hour of finishing.  The sleep anywhere/anytime bit I learned in college when I had to pull all night shifts at the vet hospital.

Diane

Umm....you can't lose that kind of weight while you sleep short of peeing off a pound or two.  Where exactly would it go?

You should take in some kind of post workout nutrition and sleep when you feel like it.  You're going to digest what you take in and recover while you sleep.  Staying awake to "recover" is just going to interrupt your sleeping patterns and make recovery that much harder.

You're not getting dehydrated while you sleeping unless you're a sleep exerciser.  The water comes off the night before while you're training and not while you're sleeping.  If people weigh themselves before they go to bed, it's going to be the same weight as they are in the morning minus whatever you pee out at night.  The point is that you don't "lose weight" by just sitting there.

That just doesn't make sense.  I'm not going to say it's not true because you're obviously the one doing the weighing and seeing the numbers.  It can't be anything but water weight.

I have to disagree.  I typically loose 3 lbs overnight, but don't pee 48 oz when I wake up.  If I get more sleep (8 hrs), sometimes I loose 4 lbs.  Don't we loose water through breathing and drooling, as well?  Aren't our bodies reconstructing damaged tissue and undergoing other metabolic processes while we sleep?

You can disagree if you'd like.  Makes the world go round.

The basic question is "Where does "weight" go?"  Sure, you're metabolically active during the night.  Less so than during the day, but it's a minor point.  And we do lose water/weight through respiration, but are you seriously going to suggest that you lose 3-4 lbs or water through respiration over 8 hours?  It just doesn't happen.  So where is all this weight going?

Like I said, it doesn't make sense.

You DO lose weight while sleeping. And not all it is water weight. When we go to bed even with our glycogen store at full, we burn calories while we sleep, hence when we wake up we weight less. That’s why it is so important to eat something before working out in the AM as most of the time we wake up glycogen depleted even if we ate a lot before going to bed. Now, how much weight do you lose? I am sure it varies from person to person…