Sleep yourself skinny
An interesting article has recently come out in the journal, Obesity Reviews. In it the authors talk about how much weight you can lose by just adding 1 more hour of sleep to your day.
This is great news for those of us who are interested in losing a few of those unwanted pounds. Interestingly, Dr. Sivak found that people tend to eat during periods of wakefulness and inactivity. Each additional hour of sleep he estimates reduces caloric intake by about 6%.
If this does not motivate some people to sleep more, then I do not know what will.
For more on this subject see my new book Good Night: The Sleep Doctor's Guide to Better Sleep and Better Health on Amazon.com.
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15 Comments:
I agree with the idea to sleep yourself skinny. I have noticed that I do tend to eat more late at night when finishing a project. Whereas, if I had finished the project earlier in the day, I would be sleeping, instead of intaking the snack food calories.
I agree with this theory. I am a twenty eight year old female, with two young children. I have gained fifteen pounds in the last two years, my diet is the same and I still exercise an hour a day, yet I am very sleep deprived, due to my young children waking me up throughout the night. I believe the lack of sleep has a lot to do with my weight gain.
I agree with the idea to sleep yourself skinny. More hours of sleep keeps me away from food. It clears my thought process and give me more energy to accomplish my goals.
Do you have any advice for people who work third shift? Any ideas how to eat meals like youre not on 3rd and a word out schedule. Sometimes its just too hard to work out in the morning when you get home. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
I loose more weight when I sleep long hours than any other way. When I get a cold or flu type infection, I always sleep alot, and I have lost up to 10% of my weight.
I do most of my eating during the day. I don't eat at all after my last meal which is 6 or 7 P. M. I could be awake entire night without touching food. So if the cause o loosing weight is food consumption because of being awake I'm sure it is not true for every body.
I have become somekind of an insomniac since I work long hours (12 hours) and sleep about 4 to 5 hours when I am on night shift. Strange enough, I feel pretty refreshed after my 4 to 5 hours of sleep and I am good to go again.
This is a ridiculous generalization. I don't snack late at night, but do burn more calories when awake vs. sleeping. If you want to confirm, use a polar heart rate monitor and check your own calorie burn.
When I get 7 hours of sleep I find that eat less junk food. When I did burn the "midnight oil" I'd eat junk for the "sugar rush" this leading to a sugar crash,leading to more junk food. It may sound illogical... but when I got more sleep - I lost weight.
This makes total sense. I work in a gym, and teach fitness classes regularly, yet don't often lose weight. Everytime I am on vacation, and don't exercise, but sleep in more, I always lose a few pounds. Too bad we can't all go on vacation every couple months.
I suppose WILL power is a thing of the past. Lets knock ourselves out 23 hrs/day and really get skinny, with the remaining hour for self-adulation. We sure WANT a lot for FREE don't we?
This makes no since at all. The title alone is misleading. It sounds like if I sleep more then I loose weight, but what it really means is yes i am sleeping but thats not why I am loosing weight, I am loosing weight because I am not eating, That I can do awake. You cant make people sleep more by lying to them. ALL you have to do is eat a little less then normal. That won't help much without a little exercise too. Come on America we choose to be fat, atleast most of us. loosing weight is not supposed to be a walk in the park all though that would help. Try a little will power and less McDonalds and you might loose more then if you got an extra hour of sleep. Lets wast our money on better things.
I have never slept more than 7 hours a night. Now that I am middle aged I sleep a consistent 6 hour night. The only thing I take for sleep is Melatonin and I sleep for seven, sometimes eight hours. I still wake up for the baathroom, etc. but I do feel rested.
Would Melatonin interfere with weight loss?
it is INSANE to think sleeping will cause you to lose weight. use the extra hour you would sleep exercising.
People need to understand the difference between weight and calories. Most of the time when you lose weight as you sleep most of it is water.
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