Friday, October 25, 2019

How To Start The Ketogenic Diet | What You Must Know!

I used to wonder how my gorgeous Husband could be attracted to someone as fat & repulsive as me!


Have you ever wondered how your husband or partner could be attracted to someone as fat or repulsive as you?
OR
Do you avoid dating & relationships because of the size or shape of your body?

Did you know that 98% of all diets FAIL.

That means that for every person who starts a new diet, only 2% succeed.

Are you sick & tired of diets that fail?
Do you struggle to stick to a plan?

You are NOT repulsive... but you can't see that

My name is Fiona Burdett. Nickname Fifo

I am a life coach, an NLP practitioner and the Author of the Book Change Your Mind, Change Your Size. More importantly, I am a woman who fought that same battle for 30 years until eventually, sick, in constant pain, and weighing in at something over 100kg… I decided that something had to change!

All the “BEST” diets and all the “INTENSE” fitness regimes that I had tried over the years had not resulted in lasting weight-loss.

I embarked on a life-changing journey that had NOTHING to do with nutrition or fitness and EVERYTHING to do with personal development on a mental, emotional & spiritual level.
THE RESULTS…. Not shabby… and yes….. I say so myself!

The traditional approach to losing weight always aims at the physical strategies:
Those being
A: The food that you do or don’t put in your mouth
And
B: Exercise - How and when to move your body more

The problem with this approach is that those steps are actually only steps 2 and 3 out of what the plan should be. Step 1 gets ignored which is why so many of us give up, or just regain the weight we lose!

My coaching teaches 1st & foremost the mental, emotional and spiritual side that is VITAL if you want to lose weight and keep it off! 

The current product that is at the forefront of my business is my 6-week, online course…

This Mind-Shifting course was designed as a life-changing fusion of inspiration and practical tools, to help you transform and to help you to see your own beauty as you are RIGHT NOW!
You must learn to love and forgive yourself and see your own beauty. Ironically that self love and acceptance is what will support your successful and lasting weight loss journey!

The course is packed with things that will disrupt you deeply as you realize

A: I have done this to myself!
And then
B: That means that I CAN UNDO this for myself!

I will teach you how to do that

Would you, or anyone you know… benefit from that?

Sign up  for this amazing mind-shifting course HERE 


WHAT DOES THE COURSE CONSIST OF EXACTLY?
  • The Course consists of weekly training videos at the start of each new week.
  • Written homework every week that helps you first to understand why and how you have done this to yourself. Then it will help you install habits and methods to transform your relationship with yourself and with food.
  • There are also daily self-care rituals which are fun and liberating....... AND
  • A weekly LIVE masterclass with me and a group of classmates! This gives you the chance to connect and chat live with me every week and also your "classmates" who are on a similar journey to you. This is a place of support, friendship & fellowship for the whole class. This is the space in which many "AHA" moments and breakthroughs are not only discussed but also achieved then and there!

There are maintenance programs and all sorts of fabulous bonuses stacked on to the course that help women to maintain their new-found mind-set and enjoy their journey of health, wellness and weight loss.
My own journey has given me a deep understanding of the cruelty that women inflict upon themselves when it comes to their own internal dialogues. It has also given me an uncanny "bullsh*t radar" when it comes to women convincing themselves that their “stories” about why they cant’ lose weight, are the truth, the whole truth… and... 
as they will learn....
nothing but a BIG FAT LIE! (EXCUSE THE PUN).

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Everything You Need to Know About the Keto Diet

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Think! Only You Are Responsible For Yourself

What keeps you non-productive? Are you living your life waiting for someone to validate it?
Do you find yourself looking around to see what others have done just to see if what you are planning fit in? Some will say, "yes, I have done that, and I only end up frustrated and boxed-in." If that is you too, know that you can divorce yourself from labels or being boxed-in.
People ask what you do. Are you a manager? Are you a health professional? Are you a web developer? Are you a marketer? Are you a personal fitness coach? Are you a _____ (you fill in the blank)?
Honestly, you don't have a title. Do you want to be defined or confined in one word?
For example, if you are a motivational type person, you can never be labeled or boxed-in, and you may have always been that way. Can you remember sitting in a room, and people go around the room, stating their name and title? How do you put one label on yourself? There are different elements to you. Whether it holds acceptable or not, you are operating in the assignment that is given to you.

When someone tells you to do something, are you notorious for asking 'why?' Do you ask 'why' or accept the status quo?

A friend took a job where they told him when to go to lunch when to go to the restroom, what he needs to do and how he needs to do it, how he should think, be, and do. We understand it was because a lot of people can think but don't trust what they see or their ability to make a decision. So, management steps in and defines a structured step-by-step rule to aid that set of people. But those rules hinder the creativity of people like you and me.
I believe that working at places like that will hinder creativity as we make every effort to 'fit in,' and that will not work for you. Why?
Created as a free spirit (individualist) who should never be boxed-in, you may find that you'll work well in an unstructured environment. Such an environment allows you to devote your whole self to your work and produce great results.

Have you heard the saying, "If there are boundaries, I will try to knock them down?" Does that describe how you feel? If so, start asking why?

Do you feel like you are intimidated to make certain decisions? Or when someone tells you to do something, you may not feel good about what they are telling you to do, but you do it out of respect.
Be okay with starting to ask why. Why should I do that? Why do you think I should go this way? Or build this kind of business? Why?
Tradition: Effective or Stuck in Time
Many times, people get stuck in tradition. Being stuck says, "this is the way it has always been done, so this is the way you should do it." Reality is the way that we flourish, as a world, at any level of history is because somebody had the vision to see we don't have to do it a particular way. Think about it -- you can fly around the world because the Wright Brothers broke the "rules."

There are so many things in our lives that people tell us we can do or cannot do. We begin to conform to the opinions of others. That tends to limit our potential because your potential lies in your vision.

Realize Your Vision/Dream
Your vision is what you see when closing your eyes and picturing in your thought. It is that moment of inspiration when you imagine yourself doing something, and you are living it out in your mind. And, you feel like you are there, and you are thinking, "Oh my goodness, this is me." Then you ruin it when opening up your eyes, looking around, and thinking, "Oh, that is not realistic."
  • Fulfilling your potential in life is being unrealistic.
  • Fulfilling your potential in life is breaking the rules.
  • Fulfilling your potential in life is being chancy.
  • Fulfilling your potential in life is not to do what everyone else is doing and not conforming.
  • Fulfilling your potential in life is learning how to align your decision-making and taking the actions according to the vision you see.
Set yourself free to be you. You will be a much better person, employee, entrepreneur, spouse, sibling, friend, overall person.
Release the Rebel Inside You (In a good way of course)
You have been a rebel all your life. A lot of it is because you do not see life the way other people see it. You question it and get in long drawn out discussion for the asking why.
It is asking why you should have to do it this way. It has gotten you in a lot of friendly conversations. Most of all, it helps you understand others when they take the time to explain their 'why' to you.
The more you grow in life, you will realize that you are right. You are challenging a traditional way of doing things. And, some people do not like you to challenge them.
If you feel stuck or controlled, you may need to begin owning being a rebel with a cause. Not in a disrespectful way. A rebel fight against something. That is why many people do not like the term rebel. It is okay if you are battling against something that goes against who you are.

Some of the most successful people I know go against any mediocrity. They fight against being typical. They fight against blending in. They fight against doing things the way everybody else does it just because that is the way that they do it.

Ensure that you are doing your work and doing the research about things you doubt you should do. Your work and research will allow you to have an honest conversation and let others see why you should not do it a certain way.
If doing something for the sake of 'it has always been done this way' does not fall into alignment with the vision that you have, you may choose not to do it. You can ask, 'why?' And, if still, people tell you that you cannot do something your way, you ask why and then go out and show everyone that it can be done.
I hope this article jump-starts your progression to a more successful personal and work life. I wish you well.
__________
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Open Your Mind To New Possibilities! Fiona Burdett

 Open Your Mind to New Possibilities

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” Albert Einstein

Do you feel that all the “normal” weight loss methods are just not working for you?

Are you ready to try another “normal” diet or fitness program or both… when you already feel that it is going to be really difficult and you are going to have to be so strong?

Have you tried before to lose weight but just struggled to stick to the plan?

Have you lost weight before… and then just regained it all again?

Do you feel that you just can’t fit a healthy regime in for yourself… what with the demands of family and career, it’s too difficult?

Was Albert Einstein an idiot?
He was a genius!

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” Albert Einstein

I am not suggesting you just try another type of diet or change your fitness regime… YET

I am saying that those physical strategies (Diet and exercise) are only steps 2 and 3 of a healthy regime. Step 1 is missing!

My methods are unusual and they can revolutionize your experience of losing weight and living a healthy lifestyle… but you must open your mind first, to new possibilities.

When I tell my clients that I teach the mental, emotional and spiritual side that is vital to successful and lasting weight loss; the usual response is that I first get asked for a meal plan or “diet” or fitness program… they all first want to know the physical strategies (step 2 and 3) of how I transformed my body.
They get a bit of a shock when they realize that they have missed the point!

The physical strategies that I used on my final fabulous weight loss journey, were ones that I had used before.
I already knew that they worked for my body but I still kept giving up and/or regaining all the weight again and then…. I developed a belief that my age and my metabolism and hormones etc etc were all working against me to make weight loss damn-near impossible for me!

Weight loss had become extremely difficult, it seemed that I basically had to stop eating and over exercise to achieve any results at all!

And then I learned to Change my Mind!

With good-ole Albert’s words ringing in my head, I researched and learned as much as I could about how our minds work. I needed to understand what I was doing wrong.

Do you have a friend who had her baby, managed to look gorgeous all the way through her pregnancy and then… to add insult to injury – her figure was back to gorgeous within just a few months after her baby was born?

Perhaps you know someone who puts on a little weight when she goes on holiday and then easily loses it again after she gets home… and then… she maintains that weight easily?

I wanted to be one of those people that find it easy to lose weight and easy to maintain a healthy weight.

“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
Robin Sharma

With the wise words of Robin Sharma in my head, I decided to approach weight loss with a brand new mind-set. 

Had I created this reality myself?
I knew that I had

Now it was time to create a new reality!

If you could open your mind to positive new realities, what could you create?

As you follow my blog and my teachings… I ask you to open your mind.
Hush the doubts that say you need first a practical physical day-to-day guide.

If you have read this far… then you are interested…
If you are still reading… then you are wondering…

“Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.”
Stephen Covey

You too have the power to choose, to respond and to change. It is not in your own hands… it is in your mind!
Walk with me, open your mind, create and achieve new possibilities!



Complete Women's Guide to Intermittent Fasting

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Best Weight Loss Solution That Works Like Magic

Are you prepared to lose some pounds but tired of paying attention to all the out of date tested-and-real weight loss counsels such as working out more, limiting food portions, and eating more vegetables? All you need is weight loss solution that works like magic.
As a matter of fact, there are some diet tips and strategies you've never heard, but will help you shed that excess pounds.
Here are little-known diet tips you must implement to lose weight fast.
1. Limited Variety
All of us have at one time or another heard the advice that when you are at a buffer, you should just eat all that comes your way. But the truth is that variety does not deserve its good reputation. Variety allows you to eat more. If you take diets with limited variety, you will maintain weight loss.
2. Make Barley Your Breakfast
After it was discovered that taking barley for breakfast will keep blood sugar on constant level, this oatmeal comes with its hunger-fighting reputation. This is due to the fact that low glycemic index are in the carbs present in barley or rye kernels.
This means that unlike some other carbohydrate foods, they increase blood sugar more slowly. This helps you keep away from a spike and a fall in blood sugar, leaving you hungry.
One warning: "Don't buy pearl barley but hulled barely as hulled barley was used for the research conducted.
3. Enrich and Dress Your Lunch Salad
Eating vegetable salad for lunch with little or no dressing is one of the most common mistakes dieters make. By mid-afternoon, they are already starving. For this reason, top your salad with a 3 oz chicken breast. By so doing, you must have added almost 26 grams of protein but only 140 calories.
In addition, put two tablespoons of light salad dressing, making your salad filling enough to make you survive the 3pm hunger slump without breaking down.
4. Stock Your Freezer with Frozen Vegetables
Of course, fresh vegetables are nutritious and mouth-watering. But you have to cut broccoli into florets, wash and slice zucchini, or scrape a carrot. Instead, stock up your freezer with frozen vegetables to make things easier. They are cleaned already, cut and ready for cooking.
Prepare the frozen veggies in advance; microwave all the green beans, and stock them in the refrigerator. You can add to your salad, dump into canned soups, or just eat by the handful.
5. Make Yourself a Big Vegetable Platter
Prepare a big vegetable platter and add some low-fat dip and put it on the buffet for your guests who are weight-conscious. This is only for you and whoever is interested among your family members.
Put it in the refrigerator as it will encourage you to avoid the higher calorie content of the fridge and encourage you to snack healthy.
6. Reduce the Thermostat
The fat-burning power of the brown fat in your body is boosted when you spend quality time at about 61 degrees Fahrenheit in the chilly house. Unlike the white or regular fat which stores calories and accumulates, brown fat is considered good fat.
7. Go Out for Treats
Make yourself work a bit for your preferred treats, if you are kind of person that loves snacks and sweets too much. Don't keep these items at home but permit yourself to go out and buy them when you actually need to.
You have to go to the bakery if you need a brownie. You have to look for the nearest frozen yoghurt shop if you are longing for a frozen yogurt. The more irritating delicious treats are, the less likely you will eat them.
8. Serve Your Meals on Smaller Plates
The bigger your plate, the more food you will probably inside, as said by the experts. Therefore, serving your foods on smaller plates will make you eat less. Nevertheless, do not throw those dinner plates of your away. Use your dinner plates for salads and use your smaller plates to serve dinner.
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How to Cycle Your Fasts & How Long Should You Fast

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Best Weight Loss Solution Requires No Long Hours of Work Out In The Gym

Are you one of those who eat tasty food and pray not to gain weight? Do you feel worn out about your normal workout regimen? Do you feel your heart beating dreadfully when you complete your gym session?
Then you must be desperately looking for a weight loss solution that will keep your body fit without having to spend long hours performing exercises in the gym.
High cholesterol levels and obesity in your body can cause conditions such as diabetes, blood pressure, and even a heart attack. Therefore, healthy living is the best way to keep your body fit. Moreover, you will experience shortness of breath and unable to enjoy exciting moments of your life, when you are obese or overweight.
Losing weight does not have to be complicated or stressful. However, it is imperative for you to explore a number of different useful resources, if you are determined to lose weight. With many products on the market, choosing the best weight loss solution can be very difficult.
Once you identify one, it will make you avoid heavy and rigorous workout you may be subjected to by your trainer in order to make sure you get in shape.
It's a common false impression that losing weight is not an easy task just for the fact that people have all been tricked into believing that you have to work out for many hours every week in the gym, purchase a costly gym membership, and eat a super preventive diet.
The best solution to lose weight will make you achieve the utmost results of your campaign spending little time exercising. It will show you easy tips and tricks of burning fat without working out for hours. Apart from the fat burning advantages of the program, best solution will also provide you with general well-being and positive response.
All you need to do is to perform the right movements that will boost the fat burning capabilities of your body. It must be 100% safe and natural, and needs nothing more than few minutes of exercises every day.
With the best solution for weight loss, there is no need of buying expensive gym equipment and you can exercise in the convenient of your home and see the results you want.
How Does Best Weight Loss Solution Work?
If you spend some time each day doing regular workouts for months and fail to accomplish your goal, you will feel disappointment. This alone will make you lose your hope and self-confidence.
But there is nothing like that with the best solution. In fact, it is all about learning scientifically proven stylish workouts. It works by targeting your belly fats and getting rid of them from your body.
This solution must deal with the fat and drive it out of your body completely. You will experience a significant improvement in your physical health. Moreover, it is capable of reducing your body fat, keeps your blood pressure at lowest levels, and reduces your cholesterol level.
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Irrespective of the weight and size, everybody is striking in their own way. The cholesterol accumulating in your body is what is not attractive. When you fail to keep track of the cholesterol level of your body, then your life is in danger. With the best solution you just have to spend a mere 60 seconds each day. You will feel a fantastic and drastic change in your body.
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Friday, October 4, 2019

7 Keys to Good Health by Good Breathing

A very common slogan among asthma sufferers is "When you can't breathe, nothing else matters", alluding to the desperateness of one who can't inhale the life-giving air. Is life-giving air the full story on breathing? This article takes common breathing advice and gives reasons for its efficacy. It goes further and provides essential elements in breathing technique for better health.
Breathing is perhaps one of the most centrally integrated autonomous behaviours that reach well beyond a simple filling of the lungs. Garcia AJ writes in 2011:
"Breathing emerges through complex network interactions involving neurons distributed throughout the nervous system. The respiratory rhythm generating network is composed of micro networks functioning within larger networks to generate distinct rhythms and patterns that characterize breathing."
The outworking of Garcia's study can best be observed when a person is affected by strong emotions like fear & anger.
Mainstream advice for breathing is to override the autonomous control and consciously inhale deeply through the nose and exhale through the mouth slowly with pursed lips.
Dr Carla Naumburg PhD of 'Ready, Set, Breathe' fame suggests breathing exercises bring mindfulness into daily life. By remembering to breathe, a space is created to restore calm and reduce blood pressure and stress hormones so creating opportunity of situation control.
Professor Konstantin Buteyko (Russia 1923-2003) is credited for a technique characterised by slow and reduced breathing combined with spaced pauses of no breathing allowing Carbon Dioxide to build up to bursting point.
Breathing is a relevant component of the practice of Yoga. Yoga breathing techniques typically accompany either different poses or some form of meditation. Thus it is difficult to separate and ascribe the result to the breathing, poses or the meditation.
Pandit JJ, in 2003 tested 3 breathing techniques for optimum Oxygen uptake, as follows:
1. Three (3) minutes of tidal breathing
2. Four (4) deep breaths taken within 30 seconds
3. Eight (8) deep breaths taken within 60 seconds
The Oxygen uptake was the same for Items 1. & 3 and a higher efficacy than for Item 2. His work illustrates that breathing technique is important.
Enter Nitric Oxide (NO), a colourless gas with a half-life of merely seconds. Nitric Oxide (NO) was named "molecule of the year" in 1994 by Science Magazine.
In 1998 the Karolinska Institute awarded the Nobel prize to US pharmacologists Robert F. Furchgott, PhD, Ferid Murad, MD, PhD, and Louis J. Ignarro, PhD for their discoveries of the role of Nitric Oxide (NO) as being a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system.
NO relaxes the smooth muscle in arteries providing a larger flow area for blood, thus reducing blood pressure and bring more nutrients to where they are needed. The importance of NO in the human bodily functions cannot be overstated. Even though 1000's of research papers have been written, World research goes on. NO is implicated in heart health, lower blood pressure, better quality of sleep and even erectile dysfunction.
NO is produced in the sinuses, the biggest being the maxillary sinuses either side of the nose. They are closed chambers except for a small soft-tissue opening called the ossium which is open the olfactory airways.
There is no right or wrong way to breathe - the autonomous brain function sees to it that you get adequate oxygen into your system. However, there are ways to breathe to get maximum NO into your system. Here are 7 pointers to help get this amazing gas into your bloodstream.
1. BREATHE IN FAST THROUGH YOUR NOSE.
Nose hair and constricted nose ducting ensure there is a negative pressure in the airways. This partial vacuum causes the sinuses to deliver a small amount of NO-laden air into your inhaled breath. The harder you breathe in the more NO the sinuses will deliver.
2. BLOCK ONE NOSTRIL AND BREATHE IN.
Blocking one nostril and in turn the other nostril will increase the partial vacuum to cause NO-laden air to be injected into your inhaled breath.
3. BLOCK BOTH NOSTRILS AND TRY TO BREATHE IN.
Close both nostrils and try to inhale. This creates the greatest amount of vacuum in your respiratory system allowing NO-laden air to be sucked from the sinuses. Of course you can only do this for a short time before resuming normal breathing.
4. BREATHE OUT SLOWLY THROUGH YOUR MOUTH.
NO needs time to be absorbed into your bloodstream. Accordingly it is good to hold your breath for as long as it is convenient. Alternatively exhale slowly to allow the lungs time to absorb the NO.
5. HUM OR SING
Lundberg et al showed in 2003 that humming increases exhaled NO by 700%. Other researcher found an even greater increase in exhaled NO during humming. Problem is that it is difficult to inhale while humming. Thus the sequence suggested is to hum for 3 seconds then immediately inhale..
6. PRETEND TO SNORE
To overcome the problem of simultaneously humming and inhaling, it is suggested to pretend to snore, making the sound as if you were snoring. The snoring sound frequencies are in the range of the maxillary sinuses natural frequencies approximately 110 to 350 Hz. Allowing the maxillary sinuses to resonate will pulse NO-laden air into the inhaled breath volume. Because snoring is an inhaling manoeuvre the NO will reach the lungs in greater volume.
7. VALSALVA MANOEUVRE
During a descent procedure in an aeroplane headaches are often avoided by use of the Valsalva manoeuvre. This manoeuvre involves closing both nostrils while attempting to exhale until the ear drums 'pop'. This has the effect of pressurizing the sinuses which upon subsequent inhalation release the pressure and inject NO-laden air into the olfactory airways.
FAQ's
A. NO in the sinuses is a finite resource and can be depleted. How can it be replenished? Eat plenty of food rich in Nitrates eg Beetroot, Fenugreek, etc and give your body time to convert the Nitrates into NO.
B. Why not breathe in NO gas like they do for babies with pulmonary hypertension? The dosage of NO in a medical setting is carefully controlled. Exposure of animals to NO has caused drowsiness, unconsciousness and death.
C. Why not sit in a high traffic area and breathe in the NO produced by cars? Motor vehicle exhaust gases do contain NO. However, exhaust gases are a toxic cocktail of other gases such as Carbon Monoxide. The risk of poisoning far outweighs any benefits to be gained.
After about 5 years of buying women's wear from China, India, Thailand, Bangladesh and Indonesia we found a need to ensure supply is according to the following:
• No child labour
• No Azo dyes that cause cancer
• No harsh processing chemicals that hurt the environment.
• Fabric from renewable sources
• Natural fire retardant fabric
We went a little further, and asked ourselves the question:
What can we add to our range of clothing that enhances wellness in the wearer?
We came up with some surprising answers. Watch this space.
WELLNESS-WEAR (Reg TM)

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Wednesday, October 2, 2019

KETO MEAL PREP FOR BEGINNERS | EASY & DELICIOUS!!!

5 Weight Loss Tips by Liz Josefsberg

Sleep Deprivation and Weight Gain

Sleep needs vary across ages and are especially impacted by lifestyle and health. Researchers cannot pinpoint an exact amount of sleep need by people at different ages. However, sleep requirements vary from person to person even in the same age group.
There is a big difference between the amount of sleep one can get by on and the amount one needs to function optimally. For instance, if one is able to operate on six or seven hours of sleep doesn't mean one wouldn't feel a lot better and get more done if one spends an extra hour or two in bed.
The new recommendations of the daily sleep requirements for adults by the National Sleep Foundation include:
  • Younger adults (18-25) - Sleep range is 7-9 hours
  • Adults (26-64) - Sleep range is 7-9 hours
  • Older adults (65+) - Sleep range is 7-8 hours
New born babies, infants, toddlers, children and teenagers have more daily requirements of sleep, which vary depending on their age.
Sleep deprivation occurs when an individual gets less sleep than they need to be attentive and alert. People vary in how little sleep is needed to be considered sleep-deprived. Some people such as older adults seem to be more resistant to the effects of sleep deprivation, while others, especially children and young adults, are more vulnerable.
Science has linked sleep deprivation with all kinds of health problems, from weight gain to a weakened immune system. Observational studies also suggest a link between sleep deprivation and obesity. Similar patterns have also been found in children and adolescents.
The following mechanisms have been found to underlie the link between sleep deprivation and weight gain -
Increase in ghrelin level -
In a research published in the Journal of Sleep Research in Sep. 2008, it has been found that a single night of sleep deprivation increases ghrelin levels and feelings of hunger in normal‐weight healthy men, whereas morning serum leptin concentrations remain unaffected. Thus, the results provide further evidence for a disturbing influence of sleep loss on endocrine regulation of energy homeostasis, which in the long run may result in weight gain and obesity.
Ghrelin is a hormone produced in the gut and is often termed the hunger hormone. It sends a signal to the brain to feel hungry. Therefore, it plays a key role in regulating calorie intake and body fat levels.
Interference in carbohydrate metabolism -
Sleep deprivation interferes with the body's ability to metabolize carbohydrates and causes high blood levels of glucose, which leads to higher insulin levels and greater body-fat storage. In one experiment, scientists disrupted participants sleep just enough to keep them from entering deep sleep but not enough to fully wake them. After these nights of deep-sleep deprivation, the subjects' insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance went down by 25 percent.
Reduction in growth hormone -
Sleep deprivation reduces levels of growth hormone - a protein that helps regulate the body's proportions of fat and muscle. Experts estimate that as much as 75 percent of human growth hormone is released during sleep. Deep sleep is the most restorative all stages of sleep. During this stage of sleep, growth hormone is released and works to restore and rebuild our body and muscles from the stresses of the day.
Increase in cravings for high-calorie junk food -
Sleep deprivation even for one night creates pronounced changes in the way our brain responds to high-calorie junk foods. On days, when people don't have proper sleep, fattening foods like potato chips and sweets stimulates stronger responses in a part of the brain that helps govern the motivation to eat. But at the same time, they experience a sharp reduction in activity in the frontal cortex, a higher-level part of the brain, where consequences are weighed and rational decisions are made.
Increase in cortisol -
Researchers have found that sleep deprivation increases the level of cortisol hormone and other markers of inflammation.
Decrease in resting metabolic rate -
There is evidence indicating that sleep deprivation may lower the resting metabolic rate of the body. It is the number of calories our body burns when we're completely at rest. It's affected by age, weight, height, sex and muscle mass. This needs further validation but one contributing factor seems to be that poor sleep may cause muscle loss.
The bottom line -
Besides, eating right and exercising regularly, getting quality sleep is an important part of weight maintenance. Therefore, establishing healthy sleep habits can help our body maintain a healthy weight.


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