If you're trying to lose weight, getting enough sleep is critical. It can help control your appetite and improve metabolism—so you burn more calories throughout the day. There are many other benefits of sleep as well, including reducing stress and anxiety so that you're less likely to binge eat when under pressure. Even one night of poor sleeping habits can have negative effects on your body.
Sleep and Weight Loss
Sleep and weight loss are related for many reasons. Sleep is important for good health, but it can also help with your weight loss efforts. Here's how:
- Sleep helps you manage stress better. Stress is one of the main reasons why people start eating more food than they need; it makes them crave comfort foods like chocolate and ice cream. When you're stressed out or worried about something that's happened during the day, you may find yourself reaching for those treats because they make you feel better in the moment--but then later on when those cravings have passed, all that sugar will come back to haunt you in terms of weight gain! Getting enough sleep allows us time away from our worries so we don't feel as much need for these types of unhealthy coping mechanisms (like bingeing on junk food).
- Getting enough rest helps us avoid overeating at night because it boosts leptin levels throughout the day which makes us feel more full after meals instead of hungry all the time.
Helps Appetite Control
Sleep deprivation has been shown to increase hunger, leading to increased calorie consumption. This can be attributed to the fact that sleep deprivation decreases leptin (a hormone that tells your brain when you're full), while increasing ghrelin (a hormone associated with hunger).
Sleep deprivation also leads to decreased fat burning and increased fat storage. One study found that people who slept less than 6 hours per night had higher levels of insulin resistance (which increases risk for diabetes), higher blood pressure, and larger waist circumference compared with those who slept 7-8 hours per night.
Improves metabolism by increasing your basal metabolic rate (BMR) by 13% or more!
Your basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the number of calories you burn when you are at rest. It's the same thing as your resting metabolic rate (RMR), which is how many calories you would burn if all other factors were equal and there was no activity or exercise involved.
In order to lose weight, it's important to increase your BMR by 13% or more! This can be done through dieting and exercise but also through sleep! Sleep helps increase BMR by 13%. This means that if someone gets 8 hours of sleep every night for one week, they will have an increased calorie burning capacity compared to someone who only gets 6 hours of sleep each night during those same seven days.
Conclusion
If you're trying to lose weight, getting enough sleep is one of the most important things you can do. It helps control appetite, stress levels, and helps increase your basal metabolic rate (BMR)! While most associate weight loss with nutrition and exercise, we must not forget one of the most important pillars in weight loss either.
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