What are your sleeping habits like?
- mariaolympiagiannali
- Jan 13, 2023
- 2 min read
Do you sleep late at night, too few hours, is your sleep interrupted?
Lack, poor quality of sleep, irregular sleeping habits and obesity are directly linked to each other.
There are studies on how the hormones ghrelin and leptin, which balance appetite and calorie intake, can be affected by too little sleep. When the level of these hormones is destroyed, you can end up in a situation where you consume a large intake of calories from mostly sugar and fat in the form of various snacks and less from fruit and vegetables.
If you sleep too little, ghrelin, which stimulates hunger, rises and at the same time, leptin, which regulates the feeling of satiety, decreases. Quite simply, the body needs to survive stress and fatigue through large intakes of fat and carbohydrates and screams for what will save it quickly.
Even the quality of sleep or irregular sleeping times can lead to specific consumption of certain types of food, especially late at night. In addition to the body trying to compensate for fatigue with something that provides quick energy, the brain's reward system is also stimulated, which requires food with a more hedonic stimulus, usually without having the ability to choose the right type of food at that particular moment.
How can you break these patterns? How can you stop these habits?
In order to be able to put an end to such habits, you need to have motivation and be open to changes. Setting goals through self-empowerment is a way to take action and change your situation.
When will you take the first step?
Sources:
Papatriantafyllou E, Efthymiou D, Zoumbaneas E, Popescu CA, Vassilopoulou E. Sleep Deprivation: Effects on Weight Loss and Weight Loss Maintenance. Nutrients. 2022 Apr 8;14(8):1549. doi: 10.3390/nu14081549. PMID: 35458110; PMCID: PMC9031614.
Dashti HS, Scheer FA, Jacques PF, Lamon-Fava S, Ordovás JM. Short sleep duration and dietary intake: epidemiologic evidence, mechanisms, and health implications. Adv Nutr. 2015 Nov 13;6(6):648-59. doi: 10.3945/an.115.008623. PMID: 26567190; PMCID: PMC4642416.
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