Weight Loss Tip: no.4546

Getting enough sleep can decrease hunger and cravings throughout the day, which can make it easier for you to lose weight by driving down the desire to consume more food.

Care to guess why?

Yup, you should get more sleep because the lack of it can alter the balance of several hormones responsible for hunger and satiety, such as leptin and ghrelin, for example. In turn, the disrupted appetite regulation can make you more susceptible to increasing your calorie intake by making poor food choices and/or eating past fullness because you’re not as easily satisfied.

That’s a very brief overview of why sleep is so important for weight control and why you should make it a point to get at least 7 hours of the stuff. As for how you can get more and better sleep, among the things you should do is go to bed at the same time every day to sync your body’s internal clock to when it can expect activity and rest; work out regularly to help tire the body and reduce stress that might keep you up at night; and limit the use of substances that interfere with sleep.

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Monster Longe

Monster Longe is a personal trainer in San Diego. He has been lifting weights for +25 years and training clients in the gym and online for about half of that time. When not working with clients or making content that's easy to read, understand, and apply to everyday life, he enjoys long walks and leaving buildings crushed and entire city blocks decimated in his wake.

Weight Loss Tip: no.4546

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