6 ways to lose weight while you sleep: Get back the control of your metabolism

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• If you check your weight before going to seep in the night and again in the morning, you may notice that you may weigh less in the morning – primarily because you have lost water throughout the night as you breathed and sweated.

• But even as our body rests, organs and organ systems do not switch off, and their working consumes calories, however less it may seem as compared to the waking hours burn.

• It is not impossible to burn calories during the night. However, the loss of water weight is more significant than the loss of fat.

• Edward Lane and Anna Davies write in Men’s Health that getting a poor night’s sleep doesn’t just make you cranky—it can also make you gain weight. After research, the sequence is assumed to be as below:

1. Logging less than eight hours a night increases your levels of the stress hormone cortisol.

2.  A spike in the cortisol level in your blood negatively affects the microbes in your gut.

3. A disbalance in the levels of microbes ultimately slows down your metabolism.

4. Loss of sleep can disturb your hunger hormones, making you more likely to eat junk food.

5. This causes a spike in blood sugar, which can contribute to weight gain and other complications.

Repeatedly, research has highlighted the fact that just one night of bad sleep can slow down your metabolism the next morning, reducing the energy you expend by up to 20 per cent. according to a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.