Sleep and Lose Weight
Losing weight is one of the most common words that people search in the internet. There are many different ways introduced by different website but from unofficial study, 90% of those solutions actually fail. Do not feel desperate because you have tried many of the solutions, as you still have one solution to go with which has been studied a lot and proved to be effective.
Losing weight while sleeping is actually not a very new idea or a hypothesis, there are a lot of studies to support that you can lose weight or gain less weight by sleeping more. Some of studies actually quoted that the weight loss is 3 times more for sleeping compared to just lying on the bed. The other studies stated that sleeping 5 hours per night can bring up to 30% more weight gain than sleeping 7 hours per night.
Why sleep and losing weight are linked? According to many different researches, the lack of sleep causes the change in hormone which controls your appetite that is your hunger. When you are not getting sufficient sleep, you feel hungry even when you are actually full, therefore, you keep on eating.
The other point for the relationship between sleep and weight loss is metabolism. Studies concluded that the brain is the brain consumers a significant portion of energy intake. When we are in the rapid eye movement stage of sleeping, the metabolism of the brain is very high. Therefore, a lot of energy intake is consumed, that means you are burning your calories away.
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.
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.
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