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Yup. That's why you see so many fat flight attendants and nurses these days. I went to a nutritionist who told me that I would never lose weight until I quit flying and learned to sleep again. A few years later, I was forced to quit flying, but still struggled with sleep issues. Ugh. So a couple months after I quit, I decided, dammit, I'm losing this weight - I'm going to train for a triathlon. Since I used to love working out, and I'd always admired people who did triathlons, it seemed like the thing to do.

It's a really long story, but I ended up in much, much worse shape after 4 months of training. Since my hormones were already so screwed up from not sleeping, working out twice a day 6 days a week was definitely NOT what I should have done. I pushed myself until eventually I crashed (it happens to a lot of triathletes, I found out later). I was in the pool one day and suddenly felt like I was swimming in mud. My body just completely shut down. It was awful. I had fried my adrenal glands and my thyroid - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I'm still dealing with it 3 years later.