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A lack of sleep can make you gain weight. Once again, it is the hormonal upset at work.
It was reported by Professor Francesco Cappuccio, of the University of Warwick (UK), in 2006, that a lack of sleep lowered the production of leptin and raised the production of ghrelin.
When you can't get a good night's sleep (repeatedly!), your body can't produce adequate levels of leptin. Leptin is the hormone produced by your fat cells which tells you that you've had enough to eat. Without leptin, you still think you're hungry.
Likewise, a lack of sleep interferes with the mechanism of formation of the hormone ghrelin, which is produced in your stomach. Ghrelin tells you that you are hungry, and its production is supposed to be suppressed when it senses glucose from your meal. Once again, when the ghrelin production is not suppressed, due to sleep deprivation, you think you are still hungrry.
Both these results of sleep deprivation tend to lead to overeating, which can cause one to become overweight, when overeating is more than very rare.
For more information on how these hormones work, please see my report on Hormones and Excess Weight.
For a free copy of my special report, entitled "Hormones and Excess Weight", just send an e-mail to: HormoneReport@theweightlossresource.com, and I will be happy send it to you.
On a more humerous note, I always enjoy the ads that one sees on the Internet, which advertise that with their program, you will lose weight while you sleep. That's very funny! Everyone loses weight while they sleep, whether they are on a diet or not! As a matter of fact, anytime you are not eating or drinking, you are certain to lose weight — for example even between breakfast and lunch. Remember that a person's weight is simply the result of input minus output. If your input is zero between breakfast and lunch, and you are standing sitting, walking, talking ,etc. or simply breathing, maintaining a heartbeat, keeping a reasonably constant body temperature, having a thought, hearing a sound, etc., you are consuming energy. Since you haven't taken anything in during that period, but you have spent energy, you have lost some weight. Perhaps it was very little, if you were relatively inactive, or perhaps it was measurable, if you worked hard physically. But you lost weight, whether asleep or awake, as long as you weren't eating or drinking.
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