I thought fiber and proteins before sleep caused me to be tired in the morning.
So I had purposely moved all my proteins, and majority of fibers to early in the morning, on Sept 19 (5.3.38), and Sept 20 (5.4.39).
But I had a regular sugar intake on Sept 19 (5.3.38) and a reduced sugar intake on Sept 20 (5.4.39); other food items were close to my past few weeks' of average types and amounts of fruits and meat items.
Results:
From the foods on Sept 21, 2014, I had a good sleep, and I woke up feeling "Nice" the next morning.
And, I definitely felt much better compared to the low calorie day of Sept 20.
Normal wake-up time though, I slept at 12 and woke at 8.
The few spoons of grounded / powdered almonds, which was a minor source of protein did not mess-up with my sleep & wake quality.
From the foods on Sept 20, 2014, (5.4.39), I woke up at 5-ish and felt tired-ish. (goal is to wake up early and feel great-ish).
I went to bed early at 8:00 pm, but was kind of hungry even before falling asleep, I think I really slept at 10 pm.
From the foods on Sept 19, 2014, (5.3.38), I woke up at 7 (1 hour earlier than normal); slept at 10 pm the night before.
Discussion:
This means that a tired-ish wake up is not mainly due to eating proteins or fiber before sleep; Calories can probably play a role there too.
It is probably most likely due to not enough calories distributed around my body during sleep.
(or in the case of eating large meals before bed, or eating fiber {like in rice}***, or eating lots of protein before sleep, could have probably drawn energy to the stomach to digest food at night which may have caused less calories for overall sleep quality.)
***{I had definitely felt better switching {knocking out rice} to this diet on most days, and felt mediocre on some days in the past 1.5-2 months (Note: Wai days were not consecutive. Some days were not Wai. As noted on diary entries.), so I wanted to know exactly what factors made it better for my sleep & wake quality. If I had woken up and felt sluggish all day on every day of my first week of Wai days, like the tired-ish feeling on Sept 21, then obviously it would not have been that easy for me to switch to this diet.}
Tentatively^^^ Concludes:
Keeping foods liquid or eating less solid foods before sleep, means an early wake-up.
Eating enough calories before sleep, means a good energy filled body on waking.
^^^I will still keep testing, these are only a few days of trials.
Disclaimer:
There are experimenter's bias here (a bit pro-Wai, but rebellious aytundra and cooked foods aytundra have not intruded yet.), and this is not double blinded (I am experimenting on myself), and anecdotal responses are here (aytundra says), and these are not repeated designs (there are not enough days of repeated exact food scenarios), or blocked trials (interference from accumulated days of healthy eating), so please read lightly (all experimental results in my diary applies to me only.).
sleep | waking 6:30, relaxed sleep very easy to breathe properly until 7:30, then slept and dreamed a bit more and woke up. || energy after fully waking in the morning is good (as in 30 min post 8:30).]
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