Why is Sleep so important when losing weight?

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Sleep Controls Your Diet

Do you want to look better eat less and move more. Sometimes you want to eat less and move more, but it seems impossible to do so. And the reason you cant may be you’re forgetting to sleep enough. Enough and sound sleep is the key to success in weight loss.

Not sleeping enough—less than seven hours of sleep per night—can reduce and undo the benefits of dieting.  When you diet and sleep well – half of the weight you lose is from fat. However when you cut back on sleep, the amount of fat lost can be cut in half.

Less sleep also makes you significantly hungrier, less satisfied after meals, and lacked energy to exercise.

 

Poor Sleep Changes Your Fat Cells

Think about the last time you had a bad night of sleep. How did you feel when you woke up? Exhausted. Dazed. Confused. Maybe even a little grumpy? It’s not just your brain and body that feel that way—your fat cells do too. When your body is sleep deprived, it suffers from “metabolic grogginess.”  The hormones that control your fat cells demand and need good sleeping patterns.

 Within just four days of sleep deprivation, your body’s ability to properly use insulin (the master storage hormone) becomes completely disrupted.

When your insulin is functioning well, fat cells remove fatty acids and lipids from your blood stream and prevent storage. When you become more insulin resistant, fats (lipids) circulate in your blood and pump out more insulin. Eventually this excess insulin ends up storing fat in all the wrong places, such as tissues like your liver. And this is exactly how you become fat and suffer from diseases like diabetes.

 

Lack of Rest Makes You Crave Food

Many people believe that hunger is related to willpower and learning to control the call of your stomach, but that’s incorrect. Hunger is controlled by two hormones: leptin and ghrelin.

Leptin is a hormone that is produced in your fat cells. The less leptin you produce, the more your stomach feels empty. The more ghrelin you produce, the more you stimulate hunger while also reducing the amount of calories you burn (your metabolism) and increasing the amount fat you store. In other words, you need to control leptin and ghrelin to successfully lose weight, but sleep deprivation makes that nearly impossible.

Sleeping less than six hours triggers the area of your brain that increases your need for food while also depressing leptin and stimulating ghrelin.

When you don’t sleep enough, your cortisol levels rise. This is the stress hormone that is frequently associated with fat gain. Cortisol also activates reward centers in your brain that make you want food. At the same time, the loss of sleep causes your body to produce more ghrelin. A combination of high ghrelin and cortisol shut down the areas of your brain that leave you feeling satisfied after a meal, meaning you feel hungry all the time—even if you just ate a big meal.

 If you have insomnia: Sleeping pills perecription or so called natural will not CURE the problem. The problem is your body is lacking in Seratonin. The corrcet balance of seratonin stops sugar and wheat cravings, helps to develop restful sleep and relieves stress.

A natural amino acid capsule you can take if you have insomnia is L-tryptophan. You can buy this cheaply on-line. Tryptophan is used for stress, relaxation, insomnia, sleep apnea, depression and anxiety. Check with your Doctor if on medication to make sure it is compatable.

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