The Downside to Weight Loss

The health experts didn’t tell me there would be days like this, ones where my bones get in the way of sleep. It is almost four a.m. and I’ve been awake for a couple hours now, after finally giving up and getting up to make coffee. Lately I have been tossing and turning, trying to find a comfortable position for sleep. I’ve lost enough weight now that my bones are not as padded as they used to be, and the positions I used to sleep in are no longer viable. This morning, after my second cup of coffee and further contemplation, I’m trying to come up with some solutions. This may not seem like a serious post, but I’ve lost enough sleep that I feel the need to write about it. Weight ‘gain’ is not one of the options, so mentally crossing that one off. Would building muscle help ‘pad’ my bones? Leg pillows? A different mattress?

I have found there are other downsides to weight loss and might write about those in the near future, but this one is the one that has me deep-thoughting this morning.