Sleep controls your diet
Our lives are busy. Between socializing, working, eating, and exercising, we’re running out of time for sleep, or putting sleep off—it isn’t our priority because our lives demand so much from us. The thing is, what most don’t realize is that sleep is the key to being rewarded for our dieting and exercising efforts.
Let’s take a look at the stats. According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), around 30 percent of adults don’t get enough sleep. Now considering the statistics for obesity is nearly identical, it’s not hard connecting the dots. When you put one stat up next to the other, there’s no way the connection is a coincidence.
And what about sugar?
Many people think hunger is related to willpower and learning to smother those cravings, but in fact it’s the lack of sleep that makes your body beg for sugar. Research published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found that sleeping less than six hours triggers the area in the brain that increases the need for food. In fact, lack of sleep pushes you in the direction of the foods you know you shouldn’t eat.