Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Sleep more, lose weight, says study

Thursday, October 21, 2010

[fast5] Re: Sleep more, lose weight, says study

I have personally noticed this phenomenon in my own life. Since I started Fast-5, I felt like I needed less sleep. So I feel pretty good on 5.5-6.5 hours of sleep. HOWEVER, and this leads to a big BUT(T), I found that paradoxically, if I sleep less, I get ravenously hungry during my eating window and I actually begin to GAIN weight on Fast-5 because I counter-surf all night long! My hunger is just off the charts. But If I go to bed earlier and get 7-8 hours of sleep, the next day, I'm really not hungry at all.

-Rick

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "tamaratornado" <tamaratornado@...> wrote:
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> Sleep more, lose weight, says study
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> Are you trying your best to eat right and exercise, but still not losing weight? One study suggests that lack of sleep could throw off a diet.
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> Research from the University of Chicago showed that dieters who slept for 8.5 hours lost 55 percent more body fat than dieters who slept 5.5 hours.
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> "Lack of sufficient sleep may compromise the efficacy of typical dietary interventions for weight loss and related metabolic risk reduction," the study authors concluded in an article released Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a journal of the American College of Physicians.
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> Not having enough sleep could affect a hormone called ghrelin, known to affect appetite and weight. An increase in this hormone level has been shown to make people hungrier and cause higher fat retention.
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> The dieters who slept less reported feeling hungrier throughout the course of the study.
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> http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/04/sleep-more-lose-weight-says-study/
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