skyraptor

I still struggle to get really good sleep. I've slept with ear plugs (nearly) every night for the last 30 years. Now there is almost zero chance I can get any sleep without them, even in very quiet environments. Also just checked my CYP1A2 marker and have the A/A variant so I'm a "ultrarapid" caffeine metabolizer and I only drink 1 cup of caf-coffee in the mornings, so this is probably not a big contributor to low quality sleep. Maybe Alcohol (straight whiskey only), but maybe not. When I go through periods of not drinking I see no apparent improvement in my sleep. Still looking...

I had RLS pretty bad, and that makes it impossible to lay still in bed. I "cured" the RLS somehow. It was probably either, or a combination of, going keto and/or giving up a lifestyle of chronic cardio exercise. I've been RLS free for over a decade now. Lying still in bed is possible now, though still not super easy for me, but at least RLS isn't part of the problem.

Stop eating carbohydrates for 60 days. You're body will very likely hate you for it for a week or two so you got to get past that (you're basically breaking an addiction and suffering a withdrawal). Then the weight will magically melt off. After 60 days, don't start with the carbs again. I'm at 10 years now.