Belly Fat: The Healthy Eating Guide to Lose That Stubborn Belly Fat - No Exercise Required (Belly Fat, Healthy eating, weight loss for women, low fat, ... wheat, detox, grain free, gluten free) by Emily Hoskins

Author:Emily Hoskins [Hoskins, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi, pdf
Published: 2015-01-27T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5: The Importance Of Sleep

Often people who have busy lives don’t get the sleep that they need, or feel tired for much of the time. The quality of your sleep matters as well as the duration. Some people need less than others, but you may just be going to bed with too much undigested food in your system and may need to change a few habits to help you to get sufficient rest.

If you are lethargic, this is a good sign that you’re not getting the rest you need and believe it or not, during the sleep cycle, your body is healing and recovering from the day before, making it ready for the day to come. There are many other things that happen during sleep but if you are trying to lose belly fat, you need that extra energy the next day, so that you can function at an optimal level and be more inclined to exercise, even if that just means going for a walk.

Many obese people don’t get enough sleep or go the other way and becometoo lazy, staying in bed for far too long. Striking the balance is essential to good health. The danger is that people who are inactive encourage the build-up of visceral fat in the belly region and that’s deep fat that is harmful to areas of the body such as your heart or your lungs. Thus, it’s important to be active, but if you are sleepy, that’s hard.

So how much sleep is healthy?

There have been studies into this aspect of life and although some people believe that 8 hours is correct, they may be doing themselves a disservice. Between six and seven hours a night is enough, but it should be quality sleep.

How does that affect the belly region?

If you sleep well, you are much more energetic the next day and are able to use that energy to give yourself a head start when it comes to being active. The vision that people think of when they associate thoughts with obesity is inactivity and that’s the same for belly fat too. If you are constantly inactive, don’t get enough sleep and eat all the wrong things, you don’t stand a chance of losing belly fat.

If you sleep well and don’t allow stresses to keep you out of bed, you will give yourself a better start the next day. If you have eaten too close to bedtime, and usually these are snacks, you can’t get the quality sleep that you need and thus, you wake tired and spend much of the next day feeling like you have no energy.

Food before bedtime

There are all sorts of myths about how soon before bedtime you should stop eating. You do need your evening meal, so don’t skimp on that, but the area when you really put your belly fat at risk of increasing is when you eat high calorie, high sugar or fat foods as a snack before bedtime. The kind of snacks that should be

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