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Getting a Good Night's Sleep

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 What is sleeping to you?  Seems so freakin' simple - right?   "Get a good nights sleep" we are told.  To be healthy and burn fat properly and recover from hard workouts, you must have at least 7 hours and preferably 8 hours of sleep.  But, don't sleep too much!!! A little epiphany I had was that 1) laying in bed is not the same as 2) sleeping.  Obvious, I know.  But, honestly, I had not separated those two in my mind completely.    On an extended visit with my daughter and son-in-law we talked a little about their use of the Apple Smart Watch for sleep monitoring.  And, my daughter-in-law said at my daughter's wedding, that she used some kind of sound monitoring app that worked OK.  I looked at all kinds of sleep monitoring devices and got very confused. Let's just say I am not an Apple Fanboy and was looking for an alternative.  One person had good luck with the Fitbit and I was leaning that way.   On my yearly...