How Important Is Sleep For Weight Loss?

There are lots of important steps for losing weight. As any diet coach or personal trainer will tell you, your exercise routine, dietary habits, and hydration level are some of the most important factors in staying healthy, losing weight, and building muscle growth. However, there is one important factor for weight loss that often goes overlooked by newcomers and experts alike. It’s a vital step to not only weight loss, but also your physical and mental well-being. Of course, I’m talking about sleep.

“Really? Sleeping will help me lose weight?! That doesn’t make sense!”. But it’s true. Studies have routinely shown that not getting enough sleep is a huge indicator of obesity and weight gain in both adolescents and adults. But why is that?

Not getting enough sleep can have dramatic impacts on your health. One of the primary ways that sleep deprivation causes weight gain is by altering the amounts of two hormones that your body produces called ghrelin and leptin. Ghrelin is a hormone created in your stomach that makes you feel hungry. Leptin, meanwhile, is released when fat is stored, causing you to feel full. Not getting a healthy amount of sleep will increase the amount of ghrelin that your body produces, but it will also decrease how much leptin you produce. This means that you will feel hungry more often, and you won’t be satisfied as easily when you eat. This means you will eat more than usual and crave fattier, more unhealthy foods. A lack of sleep also causes the brain’s cerebral cortex to become more active, making food seem more rewarding. These problems combine and intensify each other, causing rapid weight gain. Even worse, weight gain and unhealthy eating itself can lead to the development or worsening of sleep disorders, leading to a vicious cycle of unhealthy habits and health problems. 

But that’s not all. A study from the National Institutes of Health has shown that sleep deprivation can lead to an increase in cortisol, a hormone that regulates stress and causes fat build-up to increase. It also decreases protein synthesis and reduces muscle growth. All of these studies show that not getting enough sleep not only will cause you to gain fat, but it can halt all of your hard-earned muscle gains. 

The best way to counter sleep deprivation and its side effects is to stick to a healthy exercise routine and sleep schedule. Unfortunately, many of the highest-rated weight loss supplements are stimulants, which can keep you wired all day and lead to all the negative consequences of sleep deprivation. However, one of the best non-stimulant alternatives is FINNAFLEX’s PURE CLA, which is designed to help both men and women lose weight without keeping you up all night!

It's never too late to start losing weight, building muscle, or even just finding a healthy sleep schedule. Start redefining yourself today by redefining your sleep schedule to a healthy 8 hours a night, and soon you’ll be on the right track to healthy and noticeable weight loss. 

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