Sleeping Well Helps you Lose Weight

Discover how the hours you dedicate to sleep influence, and in what way, your weight

Sleeping well is fundamental. This phrase has been heard thousands of times, but now we are going to give you one more reason to rest the hours you need: sleep helps you lose weight.

Well, sleeping well is fundamental, both in the growth of children and adults, because rest helps  regenerate cells quickly .

The recommended rest hours can never be less than seven and neither above nine. If you sleep less hours and are used to physical exercise, the muscles do not regenerate and therefore do not recover. So you can continue practicing physical exercise and develop muscle properly, you should sleep more than 7 hours.

Also when rest is inadequate we eat worse the next day, since we are tired, which is often confused with the feeling of hunger. We are also more willing to not respect meal times. 

It can happen to you, sometimes, that some days that you do not sleep enough and do not respect the schedules, nothing happens.

However, if this is prolonged in time, our body reacts internally searching for the energy necessary for fatigue to disappear instead of fulfilling the function of burning fat and transforming it into energy.

In fact, when you sleep less than 7-9 hours the production of 2 hormones involved in weight loss is altered:

• Ghrelin, which stimulates the appetite, when you sleep poorly, is produced in greater quantity.
• Leptin, which sends the signal to our brain that we are full. In this case, its production decreases.

When we are deprived of sleep, ghrelin levels increase and leptin levels decrease. The lack of sleep can also activate the hormone cortisol, which encourages our body to store abdominal fat.