Sleep and Weight Loss
Amazingly, one of the most effective weight loss strategies is to get enough sleep. “After a bad night’s sleep, people in a study ate 550 calories (22 per cent) more than normal,” said the findings of a study by the European Centre of Taste Science in Dijon in central France. You can read about the conference here.
It makes sense. Your body needs rest to repair itself. Without proper reset, your body can’t do what it needs to do. You wake up feeling tired and irritable, so what do you do? You eat. Your body craves food to increase your energy, but it’s not lack of food making you sleepy; it’s inadequate sleep.
Diets are fine, but the first step in weight loss is to get proper rest each night.