HP, any of this sound familiar? has to lift weights to gain weight, can eat massive amounts of food, and never gain a pound otherwise, loses weight whenever stressed even if eating 'well', can go days without sleep when 'needed', tendancy toward extreme swings, .... cant wait for you to tell me Nope wrong again BF....LOL..... how tall is he?

Karen, your husbands need for sleep isnt suprising with his workouts, there are always variations of course to what I said. I am also guessing ( from his FOO ) your H is highly self critical, and driven, and stressed from internal dialogue. The self imposed stress raises his need for sleep.

I think this is the hardest part of your dilemma cause any expectation, perceived criticism on your part is going to be highly unwelcome, and resented. It resonates to loud with the critical internal voice.


You are a female even as a ectomorph, your lower overall muscle mass and higher body fat you require less sleep, besides the hormonal differences. I have known two meso girls that were perfectly ok with 5 or 6 hours of sleep. Im telling you that was not compatible.

The telling factor for sleep need is if you need an alarm to wake up and how likely you are to nod off other then in bed.


anywho..... Oh picked this up somewhere along the way in my kine. classes. dont remember too long ago when I first got into triathlons.