SLEEP DEPRIVATION
VS WEIGHT LOSS
Abs are made in the bedroom… not the kitchen.
Do you ever feel as though life and work are getting in the way of your weight loss goals? Do you get home already exhausted and can’t even make it to the gym?
Skipping the gym may not be the only reason why the numbers on the scales aren’t shifting. Even if you are eating right and putting 100% into your training regime, if your quality of sleep is lacking you are going to struggle to lose weight. Sleep controls your diet more than you would think and experts agree that getting enough quality sleep is as important a factor in weight loss as diet and exercise.
Sleep is vital for weight loss. We’ve all heard that to lose weight you have to eat less and move more, but it’s not always that simple. Most people don’t realise how important sleep is in the weight loss equation. A recent study by the Sleep Foundation Survey, found that the average Australian over 14 gets 7.22 hours of sleep, with 23 per cent of those surveyed saying they didn’t get enough sleep
LACK OF SLEEP CHANGES YOUR APPETITE
Sleep deprivation can have a flow on effect and negatively impact your diet. Studies show that shortened or disturbed sleep can increase the likelihood of overeating, because your body craves high-calorie foods. However, this isn’t because you are hungrier, it’s due to a shift in both your leptin and ghrelin levels.
There is a common misconception that hunger is connected to your willpower, but that isn’t the case. Hunger is controlled by two hormones, leptin and ghrelin. To lose weight you need to control both of these hormones, but a lack of sleep makes this virtually impossible. Ghrelin controls your appetite and stimulates feelings of hunger while leptin suppresses the appetite. A lack of sleep raises the ghrelin levels in the stomach while causing leptin levels to go down.
Ghrelin effectively stimulate your metabolism, the more you produce the more you stimulate your hunger levels while at the same time you are reducing the amount of calories you burn. While, leptin is a hormone that is produced in your fat cells, the less leptin you produce the more your stomach feels empty. In essence, the impact of both of these hormones can increase your appetite and also reduces the amount of calories that your body is burning- which is not good for those wanting to lose weight.
Sleeping less than 7 hours a night can significantly reduce or even undo the benefits of training and eating healthy.
LACK OF SLEEP SABOTAGES YOUR GYM TIME
Sleep deprivation doesn’t just negatively impact your diet; it can also spread into your workouts.
Having muscle on your body is vital for weight loss, the old saying runs true muscle indeed does burn more calories than fat. Lack of sleep makes it harder for your body to recover after intense training sessions, by slowing down the production of your natural growth hormone, which helps with anti-ageing, fat burning and also facilitates recovery.
There are two different ways that lack of sleep makes it harder for the body to recover:
1. Your growth hormone is released during your slow-wave sleepless sleep means less slow-wave sleep which results in less growth hormone is being released.
2. A poor nights sleep can increase the stress hormone Cortisol, this slows down the production of growth hormone. Lack of sleep already reduces the production of growth hormone and can also be further reduced by Cortisol.
When you suffer from sleep deprivation everything you do will feel like a chore, if you already struggle exercising or eat healthy than a lack of sleep will only amplify this.
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