{"id":19386,"date":"2017-01-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreams.co.uk\/sleep-matters-club\/?p=19386"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:00:10","slug":"how-to-prevent-your-new-years-resolutions-stopping-you-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreams.co.uk\/sleep-matters-club\/how-to-prevent-your-new-years-resolutions-stopping-you-sleep","title":{"rendered":"How to Prevent Your New Year&#8217;s Resolutions Stopping You Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the best intentions of New Year\u2019s resolutions, the inconvenient truth is that they often interfere with an individual\u2019s sleep pattern.\u00a0Although the best health-related resolutions are likely to benefit your sleep in the long term, your body often takes time to adjust to the sudden change in regime. Here are some of the resolutions\u00a0that may affect your sleeping pattern, and what can be done to overcome the problem.<\/p>\n<h2>Quitting Alcohol<\/h2>\n<p>With Dry January and Cancer Research\u2019s Dryathalon becoming increasingly popular, more and more people are taking this opportunity to detox after the over-indulgences of the festive period. However, many are finding that the sudden abstinence is affecting their sleep pattern. Responding in a Facebook Q&amp;A session with Dry January participants, Dr Julia Lewis said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8216;Alcohol does have a suppressant effect on the brain via a brain chemical called GABA. As a result, it causes drowsiness, which is why some people use alcohol to help them sleep. However, that sleep isn&#8217;t normal sleep &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t have the proper balance of REM and non-REM. If you do drink on a regular basis and then stop, your GABA system will need to reset itself, and for a time you may experience poor quality of sleep.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is likely to be a short-term problem, which will\u00a0resolve itself and eventually result in better, more healthy sleep. The advice here is to power through these initial difficulties and feel the long-term benefits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6011 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dreams.co.uk\/sleep-matters-club\/wp-content\/uploads\/building.jpg\" alt=\"Don't struggle to sleep this January\" width=\"700\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Lose Weight<\/h2>\n<p>While research in this area remains fairly inconclusive, it is known that a lack of nutrients such as iron can have an adverse effect on sleep. Therefore, there is a chance cutting out meat may compromise your sleep. However, low-carb diets are said to be beneficial to sleep, improving sleep\u00a0apnoea symptoms, such as snoring and difficulty breathing.<\/p>\n<h2>Money Worries<\/h2>\n<p>If saving money is top of your New Year\u2019s Resolutions, this may lead to stress, which is well-known to hamper sleep. Such issues playing on your mind can keep you awake long into the night, but there are ways to manage these worries to keep them under control. Meditation can help you deal with the issues in a healthy way without avoiding them and making things worse. Setting yourself a budget to analyse how you can save will give you a more tangible plan and get it off your mind.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6012 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dreams.co.uk\/sleep-matters-club\/wp-content\/uploads\/smoking.jpg\" alt=\"Stick with your resolutions\" width=\"700\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Quitting Smoking<\/h2>\n<p>Nicotine withdrawal is an unfortunate side effect to quitting smoking, but this should not put you off making such a healthy lifestyle choice. Simple habits to replace smoking, such as having cups of caffeine-free herbal tea (smokers have a higher tolerance to caffeine, so this should be cut down), taking a warm bath and getting up early will go some way to counteracting the problem.<\/p>\n<h2>Exercise<\/h2>\n<p>Broadly speaking, there is no doubt that exercise improves quality of sleep, <a title=\"Science Shows You Become Fitter When You Sleep\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dreams.co.uk\/sleep-matters-club\/science-shows-you-become-fitter-when-you-sleep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and vice versa<\/a>, however, there are certain manners of exercise which are not conducive to it. Intensive exercise done immediately before bedtime can be detrimental. It is much better to give yourself a cooling off period, or revert to less energetic activities such as yoga, directly before going to bed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the best intentions of New Year\u2019s resolutions, the inconvenient truth is that they often interfere with an individual\u2019s sleep pattern.\u00a0Although the best health-related resolutions are likely to benefit your sleep in the long term,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":15982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-wellbeing","category-sleep-methods-and-routines"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to Prevent Your New Year&#039;s Resolutions Stopping You Sleep - The Sleep Matters Club<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With all the best intentions of New Year\u2019s resolutions, the inconvenient truth is that they often interfere with an individual\u2019s sleep pattern. 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