"Eat, you can sleep, sleep, you can eat!" — your new slogan for the time of the diet! It turns out that a good sleep is important not only as an element restoring normal brain function. Regular medical studies have shown a link between dieting, good sleep and weight loss.
A study was published in the Medical Yearbook showing that healthy sleep shows an incredible effect on weight loss. Of course, this does not mean that you can now eat up at night with impunity in the hope that after sleeping 8.5 hours you will not only be cheerful, but also lose a couple of kilos. But these most cherished 8.5 hours together with a diet really allow you to get rid of extra pounds much faster.
The studies were conducted with two groups for 14 days. One group slept for 8.5 hours, the second for 5.5 (which is considered normal for people of this age). Both groups consumed 1,450 calories a day. As a result, after the deadline, it turned out that the group that slept for 8.5 hours a day lost about half of the total weight loss in their sleep. The group in which they slept for 5.5 hours lost only a quarter of the total weight in their sleep.
Moreover, those people who slept for 5.5 hours eventually lost more muscle mass than fat. The loss of these cherished 3 hours triggered the body's process of storing fat in reserve at the expense of muscles. Also, people who slept for 8.5 hours woke up less hungry.
So if you are on a diet, you would do well to sleep at least 8 hours a day. A good, healthy sleep has never bothered anyone.
