What's going on, Beaches? Welcome to the DailySwold Podcast episode 3,074. It's Saturday, October the 5th, and we're going to talk a little bit about what the Swole fam struggling with.

One topic that always comes up and that has continued to come up, and has come up again, is a lot of you are dealing with sleep issues.

So when it comes to, first off, the morning, there's a lot of you are dealing with sleep issues. So when it comes to, first off, the morning, there's a lot of you that are trying to get a

morning schedule to train first thing in the morning.

And as we always discuss on the podcast, that a great day starts the night before.

And it doesn't just start when you go to sleep because a lot of times I think

people expect, I'm going to go sleep at 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock. And then when it becomes 11 o'clock, they're like, I'm going to go to bed. And then it takes them half an hour or an hour or they get in bed and then they're lying awake for a while. So first off, you need to be consistent. And going to sleep at a consistent time is the most important thing, especially for waking up at a consistent time.

And going to sleep at a consistent time is the most important thing, especially for waking up at a consistent time. And going to sleep doesn't just start at the time

that you want to go to bed. It starts hours before, many hours before. First off, you don't want to

be drinking caffeine within about eight hours of going to sleep. That's a huge no-no, and that's

going to negatively affect your ability to go to

sleep as well as stay asleep. Not only that, if you're eating too close to bed, if you're eating

within an hour or so of going to sleep, too late, you're going to have issues with quality of sleep.

Maybe wake up in the middle of the night, maybe to go to the bathroom because you're drinking

along with eating, and there's moisture and food as well as digestion,

which can negatively affect and impact your sleep. So you want to try to keep your nutrition

or your last meal about two to three hours before going to sleep. Doesn't mean there can't

be something before bed that's light, that's small, depending protein, tablespoon of honey.

We can talk about that in a second, but more often than not, you want to make sure you're

avoiding food later at night.

Now, in terms of habits, again, it starts a couple hours before you're going to sleep.

So make sure you turn the lights off in your house.

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