Want to lose weight and cut your cancer risks associated with weight gain? Get more sleep. Researchers found that women who slept for five hours per night were 32 percent more likely to experience major weight gain and 15 percent more likely to become obese compared with women who slept seven hours a night. While researchers are certain about the results of the study, they cannot explain why women who get less sleep gain more weight. "Prior studies have shown that after just a few days of sleep restriction, the hormones that control appetite cause people to become hungrier, so we thought that women who slept less might eat more. But in fact they ate less," stated Sanjay Patel, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. "That suggests that appetite and diet are not accounting for the weight gain in women who sleep less." They speculate it might be women who sleep less are more tired and somehow not moving as much during the day.
1. My husband thinks that I sleep too much.
I can easily get 9 hrs a night and sometimes an hr and 1/2 nap is agood thing.
I do find that sleeping more seems to make me less hungry, but that also can interfere with an exercse program. I am very active during the hours that I am awake and try not to eat a main meal until dinner and I try to keep that small.
Starting the day with a small bran cereal or yogurt or both. Lunch is a nutritional type shake or a grapfruit, I try to stay away from any snacking.
I am constantly trying to stay on a diet and still manage not to loose the weight that I would like too.
I would like to loose about 20 pds without becoming tired or ill.
I am 5'6" and stay at about 145 no matter what I try .
Posted at 10:52AM on May 24th 2006 by Beverly