Adequate Sleep May Be Another Key to Losing Weight
When you think about losing weight, you think about being active and exercising. At least, that’s the first thing I think about. Recent research is suggesting that lack of sleep is an under-estimated factor in obesity.
Two key hormones produced at night which help regulate appetite were at play, she said.
Grehlin makes people hungry, slows metabolism and decreases the body’s ability to burn body fat, and leptin, a protein hormone produced by fatty tissue, regulates fat storage.
“We have shown that less sleep (two four-hour nights) caused an 18 percent loss of appetite-cutting leptin and a 28 percent increase of appetite-causing grehlin,” she said.
[Via Yahoo.com]
Lack of sleep has also been documented to cause other health problems and even could be deadly when it comes to your heart health.
Last year, I was trying to get adequate sleep at night. I was doing well for a while there, but soon life caught back up with me and I was back to going to bed after midnight almost every night. Unfortunately, that is still my present routine.
I really need to change that and attempt to get at least 8 hours of sleep a night. That amount feels good to my body. Since sometimes it helps to take baby steps, starting Sunday night I am going to try to be in bed by 11:30 pm. The next week I’ll try 11:00 pm. My goal will be to go to bed by 10:30 am. That will allow 30 minutes for some chatting with my husband before falling asleep. We normally wake up around 7 am so that will give me 8 hours of sleep a night.
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