Sleep before 11 pm to lose weight and
stay in shape!
When I hear
someone complaining to me about having difficulty sleeping, I constantly try to
figure out why, because it is something that also occurs to me every now and
then. Sleeping difficulties can have different types of reasons, but in our
article, I will only talk about the one that has the greatest influence on the
human body.
Are my
excess calories to blame because of sleeping past 11 pm?
The answer
is, unfortunately, yes. On average, the test subjects slept at 11:23 pm. During
their sleeping hours in bed, the people in the normal weight group who went to
bed every day around 9:30 pm burned nearly 220 more calories than the people
that went to bed very late at night.
Dr. Kristin
Aschbacher,lead researcher of the study and
a psychologist, said people who manage to go to bed early at night
(around 7 pm and 9 pm) eat better. Their diet frequently consists of fruits,
vegetables, fibers, and proteins.
However,
late sleepers are likely to have a diet based on fast foods and saturated fat
and they tend to drink even more alcohol. The reason for the variation of diet between
the two groups of people lies in the overproduction of leptin and ghrelin in
their bodies, these two hormones which are responsible for controlling satiety
and hunger. Bad sleeping habits affect these hormones in a negative way.
