what do people do or how to use the sleep data

[bob1121]

what do people do or how to use the sleep data-- 

[gerrymcd]

For me, the most interesting aspect was monitoring how eating/drinking late in the evening changed my sleeping patterns.  In my case, eating just before I went to bed resulted in me taking longer to go to sleep.  

[Kateb3]

Sleep? What's that? According to my fitbit one, i sleep very little. I have been tracking my sleep since dec 24, 2012. Apparently, I am a horrible sleeper. I rarely get over 60% Sleep efficiency. I do not use this data as it just deprsses me. According to blogs, internet, research, etc, you are suppose to get 7 hours per night . An overtired person leads to an overweight person. Your workouts are not as productive if you lack sleep. I have no solution.

[RenoHightower]

I have been logging my sleep for about a month and a half now. Either I am a better sleeper than I thought I was or just keeping track has improved my sleep. I suspect it is the latter.  Either way it's worth it for me.

[Sheps]

Im in the same boat - rarely get 60% efficiency and the more i try to track my sleep (analyze the data) the least obvious it seems to me what keeps me up at night. I live in a pretty loud neighborhood so i've been using ear plugs a lot to sleep yet i sleep "more efficiently" YET fewer hours if i dont use them. Any suggestion on what could be changed in behavior other than TV watching late at night to improve sleep?

[Kateb3]

I have read that you are to wind down at the same time every night. Do not watch tv unless it is something that will put you to sleep. Dim the lights, read a book, take a hot bath with lavender, etc. If you find yourself tossing and turning, you are to get out of bed and sit quietly until you know you can go back to bed and sleep. I have tried all of theses things, not working for me but they might for you. I have tried running 13.1 miles at night right after work thinking i would fall in to bed and be exhausted. Not working for me either!

[whitetop]

I changed my setting to "sensative" as with normal I'd get a very narrow range of readings.  With sensative, over the past months, I've gotten a low of 58% and a high of 84% (two days ago).  What I have found:

1.  Darn hard to pin down what effects sleep.

2. I switched the pills I take from before-bed to morning time, that helped a lot.  Less dry mouth.

3. I had to cut down on my two beers, now just one.  Sad. Three or more beers causes a bad night.

4. "Sleepey Time" tea seems to help.  I drink that rather than the second beer.

5. Coffee doesn't seem to hurt.  I switched to decaf and just got grouchy, no improvement.  I have cut back some.

6. Exercise may help, the days I've hit my 10,000 may be better sleeping nights.  I don't know that yet.

I'm taking anything above 70% to be a good night.  I don't know how good one can be.  As it is, for the past few weeks, I've averaged 5 hours and ten minutes sleep each night, 11.5 times awake. 

[Sheps]

That sounds really high! great job - i end up around 30-48% sleep efficiency on an average night. I'll try tea again (and drinking is definitely something i could work on 🙂 )