Tired & Retired  Barbara P.
Hometown: Helena, MT
Profession: Retired Physical Therapist
Hobbies: taking care of grandchildren, hiking, volunteer work, cooking
Life before Zeo
I was not a good sleeper. I was sleeping six hours or less. I was waking up frequently - I think I would wake up anywhere from a half dozen to a dozen times. And If it would happen after three o’clock, lots of times I couldn’t go back to sleep. I lost four hours of sleep those nights.
During the day I was crabby! I would constantly have to bite my tongue - keep a lid on it. I was irritable and tired all the time. By 10 o’clock AM I was ready to go back for a nap. I was tired all the time. And it was affecting me. I wasn’t able to remember things. I didn’t enjoy exercising very much because I was so tired. And I didn’t have enough energy to keep up with my grandkids. Doubts & Fears
I understood the alarm and everything, but I didn’t know how much I could improve my sleep. Every week Zeo gave me various tasks to do [as part of the coaching program] and I didn’t think they really mattered with me. The Zeo Experience
The first couple of weeks of owning Zeo, I wasn’t really doing the coaching program. My daughter said “you know if you want to change and improve, it’s like a diet, you have to be disciplined.” And so I said ok, and I got right on it. I started doing the [coaching program] and my ZQ score started improving. Now, I go to bed between 10:00 and 10:30. After 9:00 I shut the TV off and the computer off. I don’t do those things. If I choose to drink wine or coffee with dinner (which I don’t hardly ever do anymore) I know it’s a choice thing - I know I’m not going to sleep as well. Once in a while I enjoy that, so I do it. I also changed my bedroom around. I got it painted. I took anything out of there that wasn’t meant for sleeping, like piles of things, I had a bunch of books and things like that, or projects, or stuff I was working on. So that’s all gone out of there. I also use one of those sleep masks
How things have improved
 I have not felt this good in a long, long time. I feel awake. I feel rested. I feel focused. I’m sleeping more! Instead of sleeping six or less, I am sleeping seven to eight. I can’t tell you, I was to the point where I had trouble reading the newspaper, I was so fatigued. I would read a paragraph, and I wouldn’t remember what I read, so I would try reading it again, maybe I’d read it five times, I mean that’s stupid! But I have three books going again now. Now I’m able to keep enough focus to have not just one newspaper, but also multiple different plotlines in three different books! I think I must be nicer to be around. I just have this feeling of enthusiasm. I have energy that I haven’t had in a long time. When I had to take care of my grandsons, I was just excited to play with those little boys! But I would say I looked forward to them taking a nap. I would get tired. I felt like I needed my husband to help me watch them. But I don’t think that anymore! Before I had to force myself to exercise just because I know that it’s the healthy thing to do. Now I look forward to exercise. I went hiking with my daughter, and we were climbing up 1000 feet, down 400, and then up another whatever. I didn’t think it was hard, when in the past I would have thought that was work. I’m doing things easily now before I would have thought was an effort. Zeo has improved my sleep a lot, and I feel so much better! I would recommend it to anybody. It really bugs me when people complain about their sleep but don’t want to try Zeo because I think it would help them! I really do! It was absolutely worth it. |