Research shows that losing sleep can lead to weight gain, but there isnt really a relationship between sufficient sleep (defined as 7.5 to 9.5 hours) and weight loss. The Overnight Diet, however, is not the first to make this logical leap. As sleep expert and HuffPost Healthy Living blogger Michael Breus, Ph.D. told WebMD in response to another sleep-touting diet: “It’s not so much that if you sleep, you will lose weight, but if you are sleep-deprived, meaning that you are not getting enough minutes of sleep or good quality sleep, your metabolism will not function properly.” Its true that a deficit of sleep can lead to increased feelings of hunger and overeating as a result, so in that sense, maintaining a healthy sleep schedule does help support a healthy diet. Indeed, the diets creator, Caroline Apovian, M.D., the director of nutrition and weight management at Boston Medical Center points to this very advantage: “That first night, you go to sleep, you sleep your eight hours, you are down two pounds,” she explained to ABC News. “If you continue to get enough sleep every night, you won’t get those hunger pangs. The hunger pangs come from lack of sleep, which induces the hunger hormone to get secreted from your gut.” Those two pounds she promises, however, will be lost water weight rather than fat. Thats not necessarily a bad thing -- as weve previously reported, water weight loss is an important step toward total weight loss -- but it does make the overnight promise less meaningful.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:06:23 +0000
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