Saturday, December 15, 2012

How to Lose Weight by Sleeping

A lot of scientific research has revealed that there is a definite relationship between sleep and weight loss. When we get tired without getting enough sleep, our basal metabolic rate decreases and the rate at which our body burn fat also goes down.
Furthermore, scientific trials have revealed that people that get only around 5.5 hours of sleep at night will lose 55% less fat than overweight people that get full night's sleep.
The quality and quantity of sleep that you get when you are on a weight loss diet is one of the things that will determine the success or failure of your slimming diet; if you do not get enough sleep, you might not be able to achieve your fat loss goals.
Moreover, lack of good sleep also increases your risk of developing heart diseases and other serious diseases.
So how can you improve the quality and quantity of your sleep to aid your fat loss?
You can make use of these two tips to improve your sleep:
1-Sleep in a dark room
When you sleep in total darkness, you sleep better and longer than when you sleep in a room that has light even, if it is a dim light.
Furthermore, scientific research carried out on mice revealed that a set of mice exposed to dim light at night for 8 weeks gained about 50% more weight than another set of mice that were made to sleep in total darkness. Also, the set of mice that slept under dim lights developed an increased accumulation of epididymal fat and poor control of blood glucose which also increases the suspicion that sleeping under light could also predispose to the development of type 2 diabetes.
2-Avoid sleeping late
The advent of late night television and twenty four hours internet to read e-mails and visit our favourite social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter has put a lot of strain on the quality of sleep of a lot of people get.
All these night activities eat up the number of hours that we should use to sleep and the amount of light that they expose us to at night stimulates our brains to prime our bodies to crave for midnight snacks that contain lots of sugar.
So, if you want to lose body fat, do not stay up beyond 10 pm watching television or working on your computer; if you want to shed excess body fat, you must make sure that you get at least 8 hours of good night's rest.
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