Seattle Health Blog

More and more studies associate the weight gain to sleep loss. Experts recommend that adults sleep between seven and nine hours per night to stabilize a healthy body weight. Why should we sleep to maintain a healthy weight?

One theory is that the lack of sleep disrupts hormones such as leptin and insulin, which regulate appetite and body weight. But an appetite that goes awry and benchmarks for weight management that are erased, it can make you fat.

Another scientific explanation suggests that deprivation of sleep leaves us too tired to exercise. But it is well known that weight loss and then stabilize the weight lost, there is not enough to follow a balanced diet and healthy, it must also exercise regularly (4 or 5 times a week, at least 30 minutes each time).

Furthermore, as sleep deprivation can disturb our mood (making us uncomfortable or irritable for example), we tend to look to food for our spirits up. We eat when our emotions, without being able to control our portions, and this can cause weight gain.