Sleep More Weigh Less

By Philip Wong

There are many causes for overweight and likewise, there are many ways for losing weight. While different ways suit different people, there is one way you must try as you are already doing it every day, though may not be in an effective way. Can you imagine that one way is sleeping? This is not a stupid thought, it is a really workable ways that has already been tested.

Many candidates have been invited to different studies and physically experienced the power of sleep on weight loss. Studies like asking women to sleep for more than 7 hours per night while keep all other things including their diet and exercise the same; asking men to lie on the bed to sleep or to keep awake, all studies give the same result that, people gain weight when they are getting insufficient sleep. In other words, sleep more can help lose weight.

The most accepted reason for the linkage between sleep and weight loss is the effect that sleeping has on hormone. When you are lack of sleep, the level of hormone governs your hunger changes. The less you sleep, the more you want to eat. This is true even you are already full, with the effect of the hormone, you just want to eat. When you keep on eating, you keep on gaining weight.

The other most accepted reason is metabolism, which mainly is talking about the metabolism of the brain. Human brain is one of the largest energy consuming organs of human body. During the rapid eye movement stage, one the sleeping stages, the human brain actually uses a lot of energy. Or, in other words, the metabolism of the brain is high.

There you see the importance of sleep on weight loss. But many people in their younger age think sleep is a way to get charged for their energy and they think they are always charged even without sleep. What you can notice that people start to become fat (at the fastest rate) when they are young. What you need to do is to regularize a pattern or a routine for your sleeping time. Get up every morning at the same time even for weekends. Find out your sleeping cycle that is the best fit hours of sleep for yourself.

In order to have high quality of sleep, other than a regular pattern, you should try to eliminate or minimize the factors that lower your sleep quality. Some internal factors like stress, anger, depression, fear, illness, etc really affect your sleep a lot. Try to relax yourself before you go to bed. Other external factors like light and noise also affect your sleep. Always try to keep your sleeping environment dark and quite (darkness is also a favorable condition to the growth hormone). Finally, avoid food or drinks with caffeine and alcohol (though a small amount of alcohol is good for blood circulation and good for sleep) too late in the night as they keep your brain awake. Sometimes, people really want to sleep and turn out, they are they are so awake because they try it so hard. You should get up at this point and do something usual to calm down and go to sleep again.

Sleep more is not just a way to lose weight, it brings you good health also buy allowing times for body cells to grow and regenerate. Start from tonight, sleep more, lose weight and become healthier. - 29871

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