How does sleep affect our weight loss?
In fact, in addition to doing aerobic exercise for a long time, it can help us burn fat, and sleeping is also a very good time to burn fat.
The influence of sleep on our slimming effect is mainly caused by the amount of hormones secreted by our body.
The pituitary cells in our body secrete the growth hormone that our body needs. This growth hormone will promote our protein synthesis, effectively promote the decomposition of carbohydrates in our body, and accelerate the fat metabolism in our body. During our sleep, the secretion of this growth hormone will increase obviously, and the peak of secretion is 0:00- 2:00 in the morning. If you haven't slept, you will miss it.
In order to make the fat burning effect better during this sleep time, we should always ensure a small amount of dinner (from a health point of view: avoid long-term fasting) and eat less sugary food, because when we sleep at night, our body's metabolism also gives priority to consuming sugary substances in the body to provide energy. If there is less sugar, you can enter the stage of fat consumption faster.
Some people will say, then don't eat sugary substances directly, no problem, because it depends on one of your own eating habits to adjust your eating results. Because this is the reason why you can keep this eating habit all the time. Of course, you should always keep the principle of low sugar, low oil and low calorie.
You can tell from the name that leptin has something to do with our slimming effect. Leptin is actually a hormone that regulates our appetite. When we sleep at night, the fat cells in our body will release leptin, and its hormone level is determined according to the fat level in our body. If leptin is low, it will stimulate our brain to send out a signal to eat, enhance our appetite and let us eat more and eat more fat to maintain our fat level.
Therefore, if we don't sleep well at night, the level of leptin secreted by the body will drop, so when we wake up the next day, it will enhance our desire to eat and make us unconsciously eat more food. This is why some people who stay up late eat more "half meals" than those who don't stay up late, mainly because of the low level of lean body mass and the chaotic balance of breakfast fat level.
Insulin, a hormone, has been mentioned to you many times in the past articles, because insulin is our hormone for regulating blood sugar levels. When we ingest sugar, when the blood sugar level in our body exceeds the normal level, we will secrete insulin and promote the blood sugar in our blood to synthesize glycogen. When the glycogen storage in our body reaches saturation, the excess sugar will be converted into fat and stored in our body.
People with insufficient sleep have 50% higher insulin levels than those with normal sleep, so it will make it easier for the body to store fat, which will increase our body fat rate.
Energy recovery, our daily sleep is actually to give the body a rest time, so that the energy consumed by our work, study and life during the day can be restored, and adequate sleep can make us more energetic.
Energetic makes it easier for us to lose weight. To give a simple example: if a person has enough sleep and is full of energy, then when he goes to exercise, it is more of a kind of pressure, even an emotional catharsis, and he can appreciate the fun and strength that exercise brings to himself. However, if a person who lacks sleep is asked to do exercise, all he can feel is fatigue.
Have a good sleep, then you can lose weight better and the effect of losing weight will be more obvious! Although I stayed up late in party member!