1. Sleep: An Essential Factor in Weight Loss

2. Sleep: An Essential Factor in Weight Loss
Sleep is essential to losing weight.
Experts agree that getting enough sleep is as important to health, well-being, and your weight as diet and exercise.
If you don’t get enough sleep, you will not lose as much weight as you would if you did get enough sleep.

3. Losing Weight with and without Enough Sleep
A recent study from the University of Chicago compared the weight-loss results from sleeping eight and a half hours a night versus only five and a half hours a night.
The study concluded that more than half of the weight the well-rested participants lost was fat compared to only a quarter for tired participants.

4. Managing Your Metabolism with Sleep
Elevating your metabolism is essential for losing weight.
You can elevate your metabolism by controlling:
Your diet
Your stress
YOUR SLEEP

5. Sleep & Weight: Cause & Effect
Sleep is critical to maintaining an elevated metabolism.
Recent findings suggest that sleep problems precede weight gain.
A common misconception is that gaining weight causes snoring and sleep issues.
It’s the other way around: Snoring and sleep actually cause weight gain.
Insufficient & poor quality sleep lead to fatigue and low metabolism—and therefore gaining weight.

6. Insufficient Sleep and Hunger Hormones
Getting less than 7-9 hours of sleep a night will lead even the most determined dieter to make poor nutrition choices.
Why? Insufficient sleep impacts your hunger and fullness hormones—ghrelin and leptin
Ghrelin signals your brain that it’s time to eat. When you’re sleep-deprived, your body makes more ghrelin, making you eat more.
Leptin cues your brain to stop eating. When you’re not getting enough sleep, leptin levels plummet, signaling your brain to keep eating.

7. Insufficient Sleep and Hunger Hormones
Put the two together, and it’s no wonder sleep deprivation leads to overeating and extra pounds.
Sleeping too little also causes cortisol levels to spike.
A stress hormone, cortisol signals your body to lower your metabolism to conserve energy to fuel your waking hours.

8. Sleep: An Essential Factor in Weight Loss
Sleep problems contribute to gaining weight. You need to consider sleep when you’re trying to prevent and manage weight gain and obesity and establish an overall healthy lifestyle.

9. 10 Sleep Center Locations
For questions about your sleep health and weight management, please reach out to the experts at Chicago Sleep Center.
Phone: (773) Fax: (773)
10 Sleep Center Locations
8930 Gross Point Road Suite 700 Skokie, IL 60077