Get some beauty sleep

Apart from Homer, aren't the others cute when they're sleeping? Well it is sorta related to what I'm blogging later, thou not utterly related.

Lose weight seems to be everyone’s number one New Year resolution. However, many dints know that these resolutions meet with little to no success. While lose weight when you are asleep, sounds like something you’d hear on a late night infomercial – just around the time you’re reaching for that packet of chips, well, Because you don’t sleep well! Cutting back on sleep is a behavior that is ubiquitous in modern society that appears to compromise efforts to lose fat through dieting as it reduces fat loss by 55 percent.

As wild as it sounds, substantial medical evidence long known some fascinating links between sleep and weight. How much you sleep and quite possibly the quality of your sleep may silently orchestrate a symphony of hormonal activity tied to your appetite. And also, hormones are affected by sleep.

Now isn't that wonderful? Lose weight when you're sleeping? Here are some explanations to make you cut down all those midnight activities..

#1

Sleeping late also changes a person’s metabolic rate which is the number of calories burnt when you rest and also affects your overall health. Because it interferes with the body’s ability to metabolize carbohydrates and causes high blood levels of glucose, which leads to higher insulin levels and greater body fat storage. When leptin hormones are driven down, your body will tend to crave for carbohydrates. That desire increased by a whopping 45%!

#2

Lack of sleep can cause release of additional cortisol (stress hormone) that stimulates hunger.

#3

Leptin and ghrelin work in a kind of “cheeks and balances” system to control feelings of hunger and fullness. Ghrelin stimulates appetite while leptin sends messages to the brain when you’re full. So what’s the connection to sleep? Inadequate sleep drives leptin levels down which means you don’t feel satisfied even when you’re full. And also, lack of sleep causes ghrelin to rise which means your appetite is stimulated.

#4

Higher ghrelin levels have been shown to reduce energy expenditure and promote retention of fat and increase hepatic glucose production to support the availability of fuel to glucose dependent tissue.

Logging in a few extra hours of sleep a week is not a bad idea at all! If you get at least 6 hours of sleep every day, you will find that you’re less likely to be hungry and your sudden craves for sugary food will reduce. You’re also less tired, and don’t need sweets to keep you awake. Translate? You consume fewer calories!

Let me sum it up for you

Lack of sleep + Ghrelin – Leptin x Overeating = Obese

(Not really obese, I meant to say gain weight) hehehe

Good night sleep –Ghrelin + Leptin + Money + Health = Awesome Beautiful Life