Lack of sleep hinders weight loss

Good sleep is more important than you might think and assume.

Of course, starting to sleep more doesn’t mean you’ll automatically start losing weight, but you’d be surprised to see how much a lack of good sleep is hindering your efforts to lose weight and get in shape.

Some scientists are even quite extreme and believe that a good night’s sleep is almost as important as the calories we take in.

There are two hormones, ghrelin and leptin, which are strongly influenced by the amount and quality of sleep a person gets. With insufficient sleep, more ghrelin is released, which acts as a hunger stimulant and makes you eat more.

Leptin, on the other hand, acts in exactly the opposite way – that is, as a “stop” hormone. It makes you hungry less often and eat less, and its quantity is greater when you have secured enough sleep.

Lack of enough sleep also has a direct connection with insulin levels, which rise and fall more quickly when we are tired and sleep-deprived. In turn, increased levels of insulin in the blood cause the human body to store larger amounts of fat than usual.

Of course, it’s important to emphasize that getting enough sleep won’t automatically fix everything and make you lose fat and extra pounds quickly.

In other words, starting to sleep eight or even 10 hours a day won’t make you look like an ancient Greek statue.

But still, if you’re dieting, not getting enough sleep can prevent you from seeing good results. Scientists advise that the mandatory minimum is at least seven and a half hours a night.

So for your own good, do a little analysis of your sleep. If you find that your sleep quality is low and you are not getting enough rest, then try to cut back on eating in the evening, especially before bed and you will notice an improvement. Other tips that will help are some technique in the bedroom before bed and no alcohol before sleep.