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lack of sleep and weight gain

Thursday 8th November 2007 at 11:44:10 PM

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hello to everyon, I'm new here I want to congratulate the website for having substantial content about health and fitness. Anyhow, just want to find out if there' s really a connection with lack of sleep and gaining weight? what i'm trying to say is does it mean that if you didn't have enough sleep for the night then your craving for food will be higher.is there really a truth to this one?

Sunday 11th November 2007 at 9:11:02 PM

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yes this is true Brit, lack of sleep results to change in hormone which at the same time increases our appetite. It's like if we are tired we tend to eat more since our brain tells us that we are weak.

Monday 12th November 2007 at 9:36:30 PM

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hi I read somewhere that lack of snooze has something to do with weight gain and not too mention obesity.
Oh well, to prevent this I think it will be good for all of us to have atleast 7 hours of sleep. What dya think guys?

Wednesday 14th November 2007 at 12:34:11 AM

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yup, my workmate used to tell me about this. At first i though it was only a myth until I read some articles which reports on the link between sleep and gaining weight, now it somewhat makes me paranoid whenever i sleep late! lol.

Wednesday 14th November 2007 at 4:29:45 AM

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Hello friend !
I think it is not true fact that lack of sleep is increase the weight rather
than it increase the tension in our mind and also other disease like it .

I love fitness

Wednesday 14th November 2007 at 4:30:42 AM

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Hello friend !
I think it is not true fact that lack of sleep is increase the weight rather
than it increase the tension in our mind and also other disease like it .

I love fitness

Tuesday 20th November 2007 at 5:11:32 PM

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Inadequate sleep:

interferes with the body�s ability to metabolize carbohydrates and causes high blood levels of glucose, which leads to higher insulin levels and greater body-fat storage.
drives down leptin levels, which causes the body to crave carbohydrates.
reduces levels of growth hormone�a protein that helps regulate the body�s proportions of fat and muscle.
can lead to insulin resistance and contribute to increased risk of diabetes
can increase blood pressure
can increase the risk of heart disease
Even in young, healthy people, a sleep deficit of three to four hours a night over the course of a week has a triple-whammy effect on the body.

So, if you are trying to loose weight, get to bed and drop the weight.

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Friday 23rd November 2007 at 11:22:43 PM

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It can be hormonal imbalance. This is very common specially in cases when your body is submerge in a lot of stress recently. This causes the normal function of your body to take the wrong course. Thus, you end up having weird feeling that something is wrong with your body. Yes, lack of sleep can cause you to become very hungry. Lot of people who work on night shifts easily gets hungry compared to those who have all the sleep they could have during bed times.
Maybe you should stop stressing, relax and get more sleep then probably your normal body function will go back on track.

Sunday 25th November 2007 at 2:50:44 AM

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I would just like to ask if during the times when you are not having enough sleep do you eat so much? or do you crave for specific food? Because I was once working on a night shift and I noticed that I crave for food more than ever and I also gained weight. I have read about it in articles from the internet and have seen some of my colleagues who admitted that they are experiencing the same thing. I'm wondering maybe we have the same situation. But just so you know I did some workout to go back to my original figure and I was successful.

Monday 26th November 2007 at 6:40:05 PM

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I read in some article way back before that lack of sleep is one of the possible cause why a person gains weight.

Lack of sleep affects our hormones that triggers the brain chemistry which leads to increase in appetite.

Tuesday 27th November 2007 at 8:41:50 AM

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Also, your body burns calories when you are sleep. If you aren't sleeping at least 6-7 hours, you are minimizing the calories your body burns at rest. This is called your RMR (resting metabolic rate). Your RMR will increase with regular exercise.

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Wednesday 28th November 2007 at 2:56:52 AM

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that's very informative lt thomas! follow up question though, so 6-7 hours is good enough sleep? i've always thought 8 is the ideal, even for adults.

Wednesday 28th November 2007 at 7:48:23 AM

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try2bfit posted the following on Wednesday 28th November 2007
that's very informative lt thomas! follow up question though, so 6-7 hours is good enough sleep? i've always thought 8 is the ideal, even for adults.

8 hours is ideal. But we don't live in a perfect world. So, 7 hours is great. I usually always aim for 7 hours when I calculation my sleep. Everyone is a little different. So people feel great with 6 or 7 and some people have to get 8 hours of sleep in. As long as you don't feel tired and ranned down you should be fine. Anything less than 6 hours is not a good thing. I actually have a brother that works over night and he gets 4-5 hours of sleep. He is so use to it that he thinks that's enough sleep. Your body can adapt to less sleep. This doesn't mean that it's ok. At 4-5 hours you are not well rested.

There are four stages of sleep. Stage 3-4 or the most important.

� Stages 3 and 4: These are deep sleep stages, with stage 4 being more intense than Stage 3. These stages are known as slow-wave, or delta, sleep. If aroused from sleep during these stages, a person may feel disoriented for a few minutes.

During the deep stages of NREM sleep, the body repairs and regenerates tissues, builds bone and muscle, and appears to strengthen the immune system. As you get older, you sleep more lightly and get less deep sleep. Aging is also associated with shorter time spans of sleep, although studies show the amount of sleep needed doesn't appear to diminish with age.

How Much Sleep Do You Need?

The amount of sleep a person needs depends on the individual. The need for sleep depends on various factors, one of which is age. Infants usually require about 16-18 hours of sleep per day, while teenagers need about 9 hours per day on average. Most adults need about 7-8 hours of sleep per day.

The amount of sleep a person needs also increases if he or she has been deprived of sleep. People do not seem to adapt to getting less sleep than they need.

- Edited by Leonard J. Sonne, MD on January 01, 2007

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Wednesday 28th November 2007 at 8:12:12 PM

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i'm not doing so bad then. i do sometimes work graveyard, but i make sure i get enough sleep in the daytime before i go out for errands and do pretty much everything else.