Sleep and Lose Weight

Thanks to the delicious food everywhere around us, many of us are facing the overweight problem. Many of us choose the solutions of excises, fasting or even medicines, but it seems they may not work that well. If this is your case, you may consider one ingredient that is missing from your solution. That is one important part of your life that you cannot imagine. That is sleep.

There are tones of researches stating that getting enough sleep is one effective way to lose weight. One of them actually concluded that weight gain of 12% to 32% more for women sleep for 5-6 hours than women sleep for 7 hours. The other way round, it is not difficult to see most of the overweighed are actually having sleep problems. It is so difficult for them to lose weight as the bigger the sleep problems, the more weight they are possibly to gain.

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.

From the various studies, there is no way to deny the effect of sleep on weight loss. Sometimes, when you want to try to sleep more, you find it difficult to sleep when you intentionally want to do that. One point to note is to keep a regular pattern for you sleeping time. It may take a little bit time for you to adjust the best sleeping pattern for yourself by setting up a regular get up time and bed time. Most importantly, once you have setup your sleeping schedule, stick to it and avoid changes even in the weekends.

Not just sufficient sleeping hours, high quality sleep is also important. To those who can always sleep well, congratulations. But, there are actually many out there face sleep problems. The first thing to do in order to have good sleep is to relax, by that I mean not just to relax your body but your brain. If your brain keep active, it is difficult for you to fall asleep. You should relax yourself in a dark and quite environment for a while before you actually go to bed. Throw away all the things happened during the day and imagine you are in a very comfortable place and breathe regularly. If you really cannot calm down to sleep, do not force yourself to do that. Get up and do something else like reading a book, listening to some peaceful music, praying, etc. You will get you physiological schedule setup when you keep on doing that.

Losing weight through sleep is not a dream, it is scientifically proved to be workable. Just lie down on your bed 7 hours a night, you have get the result for your weight loss and good health as your bonus.

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