Cutting those pounds right now!

Cutting those pounds right now!

Here’s a weight loss technique that I can get behind: sleeping more. Or at least it’s a good way to prevent weight gain. Recent studies claim that those who sleep less than seven hours a night are at a greater risk of weight gain and obesity, and the risk increases with every hour of lost sleep.

One published this year in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition took a small group of men and measured their food intake across two 48-hour periods, one in which they slept eight hours and another in which they slept only four. After the night of abbreviated sleep, the men consumed more than 500 extra calories (roughly 22 percent more) than they did after eight hours of sleep.

A University of Chicago study last year had similar findings in both men and women: subjects took in significantly more calories from snacks and carbohydrates after five and a half hours of sleep than after eight and a half hours.

The more time you spend awake, the more you need to eat. That makes perfect sense to me. I like losing weight. I like sleeping. This could work. Unless you’re sleep eating.

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