Sep 10
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Long time no sleep
Have you ever tought about how sleep deprivation can impact your weight loss goals? Well, you might be surprised to learn that sleep deprivation can make it harder to lose weight/fat. But if I tell you that in fact, sleep deprivation can make you GAIN weight, would you believe me?
Well, you should, but please don’t cry 
. This is very far from a drama. In fact, it’s kinda good news, because you can directly modify this aspect of your life. You cannot change your heredity, nor your hormones. But you can DECIDE to go to bed sooner. You can DECIDE to improve your sleep quality with a good matress, a good pillow, healthy sleeping habits and a globally healthy lifestyle. You have the power to change the situation.
How sleep deprivation can have such an impact on your weight management? It’s quite simple (which is also quite frustrating). Several researches showed that stress hormones like cortisol have impacts on weight management. They tend to make us fatter by bypassing our glycemia controls. They makes us feel hungry when in fact we’re stressed out. They bypass our hunger signals and makes us eat more than we need. Stress can cause us to have some sleeping problems. But you knew all that already .
Researchers recently linked sleep deprivation and weight management through stress impacts on human bodies. Sleep deprivation, if repeated over a long period of time, is a stress on human body. Which means that as any other stress (yes… like ANY other stress, like finding a tiger in your wardrobe… ), sleep deprivation will entice your body to produce stress hormones. And, adding this stress to your whole everyday life stresses, don’t be surprise to have a hard time managing your weight.
I don’t have a magic solution for this problem. There’s only one solution: improve your quality and amount of sleep. You can try to make a 8 to 9 hours sleep during the night. If it’s difficult for you to do so, you can try to incorporate several 15-30 minutes naps during your daytime schedule. Find a way, find YOUR way to a longer and better sleeping schedule.
I personally try to go to bed sooner to have a 8 hours sleep during the night, but I also naps in public transportation and on my lunchtime. I first tried to sleep for 9 hours or more during the night, but when I did I usually woke up moody.
My new sleeping habits didn’t made me lose 50 pounds (I would be to thin anyway if I did so!!!), it’s not miraculous. But you know, when you train very hard and you eat well but still GAIN weight, you kinda wonder WTF is happening … so I wonder and decided to give it a try. I found my way, and my kids are very happy because I’ve never been in such a good mood! To me, naps are my little miracle 
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I found my way to healtier sleeping habits.
What’s your way?
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