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Roy,
Thanks for the quick response. My diet is mostly short grain brown rice and vegetables, tofu, beans, sesame butter -- for my main meals --and nuts, soynuts, crackers, chapati, and dried fruit when I'm out -- at school and at work. Sometimes I'll have a grilled cheese sandwich 3-4 times a week. I have quit any use of alcohol, caffeine, pot, chocolate, and most sugar, and I don't eat sweets at all in the evening/before bed. I don't spend an excessive amount of time in front of the computer, only when needed for research/writing. I'm really busy though, taking 4 classes at college, and feel like I only have enough energy to do half of what I should be doing to keep up, and I am so foggy, the world seems very unmagical and dreary. I work ten hours a week in an office on campus as a secretary. I feel like I caused this insomnia to become such a monster inthe past year, because I used to smoke pot, drink coffee in the afternoon, stay up late, that kind of thing -- eat too much sweet food and eat too much in general. I've just this term transferred to a new school, and it is this term that my insomnia has become worse, yet my diet just about perfect. I work out in the late afternoons for at least 30 minutes almost every day.
I do occasionally take a sleeping pill called Ambien, which is supposedly one of the best on the commercial market, and I think it helps me to fall asleep before 1, which I suppose is better than 3, but I don't like taking it and I want to fall asleep sooner, naturally.
I wonder if I should fast, just eat brown rice for a while? Would this be a good idea?Thank you very much for your help and insights. Mara
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