Sleep More Weigh Less

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.

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 that is happen? How can one lose weight while he is doing nothing but lying down on bed? Studies conclude that one of the reasons is the relationship between sleep and change in hormone. When you are getting insufficient sleep, the production and secretion of hormone that controls your appetite is affected. The result is you feel hungry and want to keep on eating.

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.

There you see the importance of sleep on weight loss. But many people in their younger age think sleep is a way to get charged for their energy and they think they are always charged even without sleep. What you can notice that people start to become fat (at the fastest rate) when they are young. What you need to do is to regularize a pattern or a routine for your sleeping time. Get up every morning at the same time even for weekends. Find out your sleeping cycle that is the best fit hours of sleep for yourself.

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.

Just sleep, without the painful workout, we can lose weight. What a piece of good news to us. It is not expensive and is yet proved to be workable. Do not wait, try it tonight to experience the power of sleep.

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