I think I need more sleep but my husband says 6 hours should be enough

I totally disagree with your hubby. It's horrible feeling not to have enough sleep. I don't think he is being fair at all. Our body sleep needs are different, some people 6 hours is enough others maybe 8. I say you all need to compromise.

That was my life for a few years right after my husand's stroke--especially when he was in the wheelchair. Stroke-survivors take so many cat-naps through the day that they usually get 10 plus hours sleep total due to the stroke. You need to get enough sleep, and your body will tell you how much that is. Don't get enough and you'll get sick or run down. Get too much and you won't find as much time to MyLot:) FYI: If you want to browse the blog I write for caregivers and stroke-survivors, it's called Post Stroke and it's on Blogger.

I have heard the more you sleep the more you will lose not the less you sleep and for your age it should be 8 hours of sleep. There is a chair that lifts a person up to standing. it is a recliner type chair and my granny had one and she loved it because she didn't need help standing or getting up. it was a very comfortable chair also she said it was so comfortable that it was better then her bed and she even slept in it often. She got it free through some program. So maybe your husband can also. I feel that if he wants to stay up later then you then he needs to get a television put in his room where he sleeps that is remote controlled so that you can get him ready for bed and be able to go to bed yourself when you want to. He needs to respect that you are tired and want to get some rest.

Everyone is different, but my doctor says that enough rest is a key to good health and will help in maintaining proper weight.

Move the TV to the bedroom! You need our sleep! I am not a happy person unless I get 9 hours of sleep! I am not sure about the weight thing. I know if you dont feel good, you wont look good. If 6 hours is not long enough for you, then you should get more sleep! I hope you are able to work things out with your nubby! And...Hubby Better understand!!!

^_^ Howdy suspenseful!.... Its better to take away that tv in your bedroom.... lol.... I think stress related can gain weight. Some say if you sleep comfortable and wake-up comfortably you may not loose or gain weights but you can be healthier and livelier. For me I think the best time to go sleep is starting from 7 or 8 or 9. Then wake up on 3. Best thing is to meditate or pray first for making or having a good day. Then exercise. A little shower. Then a nice meal of breakfast. ^_^ Thanks and Enjoy!.... myLot!....

The less you sleep, the more you may gain. So say Stanford University School of Medicine researchers, who found in a recent study that sleep loss leads to higher levels of a hormone that triggers appetite, lower levels of a hormone that tells your body it's full and an increased body mass index. The findings not only add to the growing body of evidence showing that sleep duration may be an important regulator of body weight and metabolism, but they also document for the first time the relationship between sleep and these hormones in the general population, tracking how hormonal changes are consistent with obesity. It was quite amazing that a hormone can track a person's self-reported amount of sleep so well," he added. "To my knowledge, this is the first time that a peripheral marker in the blood is shown to correlate with habitual sleep amounts in a general, normally behaving population." The researchers also found that in people sleeping less than eight hours (74.4 percent of the sample), increased BMI was proportional to decreased sleep. They reported that a 3.6 percent increase in BMI corresponded to an average nightly sleep duration decrease from eight hours to five hours. http://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2004/December/mignot.htm

I'm not sure there's a connection between the two, but the longer you're up the more likely you are to eat.

I understand your problem and I feel sorry for you. I have a husband who just hates to be up by himself and gets irritated if I say that I am going to bed before at least 11 p.m. The problem is that I work outside of the home and have to be there by 6:30 a.m. most mornings and he works for himself and can start working whenever he decides to get up and get moving so he might sleep until 10 a.m. It drives me crazy why they think that we don't know when we are tired and want to sleep. Try explaining to your husband that he needs the sleep too and that you are still up doing things all day and that you are tired and ready for bed. Could he read in the bedroom without bothering you? If so, let him do that. If not, I say invest in a small tv for the bedroom.

People, I believe, have individual needs for sleep. At one time 8 hours of sleep was considered the "norm." I didn't know the amount of sleep a person gets is related to weight. I guess if time spent not sleeping is spent in physical activity, more calories would be burned. However, if the extra time up means eating, then weight could be gained. I'd vote for sleep.

tell him good night and go to bed. he'll either go to bed with you, or he'll sit his a$s there and then when he see that he should have took the help when he had the chance, he'll think of how much you do for him. everyone needs a different amount of sleep. one thing is if you are tired you are most likely to eat more to try to stay awake.

Not at all if you sleep in noon times then it makes you lazy which in turn you grow fat, but ofcourse at night you should sleep the time your mind needs to take rest of.. you should sleep the time you need to, because then if you dont sleep again next morning you will feel lazy and tend to grow mroe fat, there is not much connection with sleep and fatness... its all our metabolism, now i am also a bit overweight, but i dont get sleep much i just sleep for 4 hours or 5 mostly, but i am trying to reduce myself with help of diet and excersice

that's enough!

Sleep less and increase your chances of developing diabetes. Sleep less and add more abdominal fat. Where does he get the idea that sleeping less will cause you to lose weight. All it will do is kill you.

6 to 8 hour is enough but if you want to get longer sleep then i suggest you sleep early that way even if your husband wake you up early in the morning you have enough besides sleeping for more than 8 hours can make some people feel dizzy.

I would think that the amount of sleep needed varies from day to day and from person to person & I haven't heard of any link between the amount of sleep and weight gain/loss. I appreciate that your husband needs your help and that you want to help him all you can but, if you are his carer, you need to make sure you take care of yourself as well - for both your sakes. I would say that, if you feel tired, your body is telling you that you need to rest. I hope you'll be able to come up with a compromise

personally i prefer to have a adequate sleep ,neither too much nor too little,however,it really depends on yourself,and i have heard that enough sleep that fit for you is helpful to keep your weight in balance,

I'm not sure there is connection between the two. If i sleep so late, i often feel hungry so that to eat some foods. Generally I think more sleep will be good for the health. Perhaps you could go to bed earlyer and lie down to watch TV for about 30 minutes and then sleep.

hello. I can't actually say if sleeping will lead to weight gain or loss, how ever i can say that I myself try and try to gain weight, litterally I have to fight for every Lb. i put on and i do ALOT of sleeping so maybe that will help. Your husband reminds me of my dad.... he can live just fine with only 4-6 hours of sleep where as my mom and I both can easily sleep 8-12 hours and still be ready to take a nap later on in the day!! Just goes to show how different we all are.