If you spend many hours at gym and sleep less it means that you are losing the fastest way to lose weight- sleep. Let’s consider how your sleep can affect on your fat loss.
The assistant professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio Sanjay Patel states that many researches prove that people who don’t sleep well are gaining weight. Recent research described in the Archives of Internal Medicine studied nearly 1000 people and they managed to find out the dependence between human weight and sleep time. Generally people with excess weight sleep 16 minutes less than people who have normal weight. This dissimilarity is very small but plays an important role. Also Patel held a research on 68,183 women and found out that nearly 1/3 of women that sleep less than 5 hours have a tendency to gain more than 30 pounds than women that sleep 7 hours.
There are also many other reasons where lack of sleep may affect weight gaining. The investigations held by the University of Chicago showed that skipping sleep may change your appetite and you can tend to consume more food. Also Patel notices that you can start to eat more unhealthy food like the products containing fats and carbohydrates. People who sleep less are more tired and exhausted that’s why they can’t spend much time for the workout. Sleep deprivation lower your metabolism which leads to the fact that less calories will burn even while you are breathing or preserving body temperature.
You shouldn’t cut off the hours of your sleep
Patel explains that it is not obligatory for everyone to sleep 7 or 8 hours. Every person is individual and the time of your sleep should depend on how he or she feels him or herself throughout the day. Find out when you feel tired or sleepy during the day. Whether you are active in the morning or want to go to bed and  sleep more. If you feel that you want to doze every time it means that you have sleep deprivation. Gerard T. Lombardo, MD, director of the Sleep Center at Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, and co-author of Sleep to Save Your Life: The Complete Guide to Living Longer and Healthier Through Restorative Sleep proposes that if you find out the hours that you needed to sleep you should start counting them from the time when you get up.
Consider medical conditions
Patel states the other important factor which makes you feel drowsy - medical condition. Also Lawrence J. Epstein, MD, medicine instructor at Harvard Medical School, regional medical director for the Harvard-affiliated Sleep HealthCenters, and co-author of The Harvard Medical School Guide to a Good Night's Sleep says that there are more than 75 different deceases that can interfere with your sleep. The most widespread are sleep apnea, problems with sleep and breathing; the syndrome of restless legs which is causes painful and discomfort feelings that don’t allow you to sleep well; insomnia that makes you wake up all the time and prevent you from sleeping. Also sleep deprivation can be caused by arthritis which leads to chronic pain, emphysema which interferes with normal breathing when you lie in bed, chronic bronchitis and heart deceases. That’s why it will be useful to consult a doctor to determine whether you have these medical conditions.
Create comfortable sleep environment
Professor Lombardo suggests that you can sleep better if you provide comfortable environment for your sleep. You should get rid of the light with the help of thick curtains or blackout shades. Eliminate noise using ear plugs or a white noise machine. If you alarm clock makes you furious you should turn it out from you or just cover it with something. Switch off the phone if you suffer from sudden night calls.
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