Dr. Michael Grandner

I know you can eat that.

So you eat the two pieces of broccoli and then they say, but I'm still hungry.

And then you say, great, you will get three tomorrow.

Let's see if you can eat those.

Then they can eat the three pieces, but I'm still hungry.

It's like, okay, hold off on, don't eat anything else.

But the next day you'll be hungry enough to eat four.

And then you slowly, you start with what they can already do and

But you don't give the other stuff that that will so you you don't let them stay in bed when they're not sleeping.

At least give them the opportunity they're already able to fill.

At first, all the mental blocks and stuff will be there.

So it might drive down their sleep a little bit in the short term for for several days, maybe even up to a couple of weeks.

But they eventually eventually they get hungry enough where they can eat all the broccoli on their plate because you're not giving them anything else.

Then all of a sudden you start introducing other foods back that they actually like, but they've gotten over their broccoli deal.

And that's what it is with sleep.

You drive up their natural sleep pressure.

You separate out the time in bed that's not awake.

You make it so that being in bed, you go from not being able to fall asleep to not being able to stay awake because you drive up that natural sleep pressure.

And it's like, well, you have problems with your appetite?

Fast for a little bit.