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[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

This is actually decent advice

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Indeed. Optimal sleep and low stress will not only make hormones more favorable to burning fat but also to appetite regulation.

Tired people overeat in a way rested people do not.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not to mention the massive benefits they provide to muscle generation and overall fitness. You can lift every day but if you don't sleep, recover and eat enough protein it ain't going to bring results.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. You know what you do in your sleep? Rest, rebuild muscle, and not eat.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You also exhale CO2, which is the primary way we lose weight. Burned fat mostly comes out as water and CO2.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Definitely. Now, if there weren't insomnia...

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

THC hinders REM sleep. Melatonin supplementation negatively impacts Melatonin production of the body.

No, I think getting the everyday stress level down and finding room for workout again is the solution but it's not easy.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Super small sample but most people in my family, like all but three, have suffered from insomnia. The majority went to the doctor and got pills or self medicated with alcohol and weed. Their lives get worse and worse. They still suffer from insomnia. A few of us changed our lives until the insomnia subsided. I got a divorce, my brother changed jobs, my aunt moved to a different state. Our insomnia went away and were are all better for the changes we made after the initial difficulties.

Drawing out an intolerable situation is harder than changing it in the long run. Sounds like you agree. More power to you and good luck.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Bold of you to assume that I can't be stressed while laying in bed.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Good exercise also helps sleep though

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I think excessive sleeping also cause weight gain

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Can't gain weight if you never eat. Stay asleep and just cause your body to enter a state of endlessly losing and gaining equal weight. It's like time travel but only forward!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Time travels face bags am's dildoes

I'm more of a pelvic thrust mace belt kinda guy.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It doesn't "cause it" in the sense that you must eat to gain weight.

The laws of thermodynamics will not be denied by a nap.

However, your passive caloric consumption is lessened at rest, so sleeping too much without changing your diet will absolutely lead to more fat being stored from the excess calories.

Think of it like this: if your current weight is stable, you are at caloric equilibrium. If you change that equation, in any way, you will eventually reach a new equilibrium.

You're burning less calories? More will be stored (as fat).

You're taking in less calories? Fat cells take calories to maintain. Excess fat will burned until a new equilibrium is reached.

But the equation that is the human metabolism is complicated. Cortisol causes weight gain by increasing appetite, aka, "stress eating."

You very well might "lose weight by sleeping" if more sleep helps fix unhealthy eating habits by removing stress.

Tl;Dr Calories in=calories out is a fact of universal law. Where it gets complicated is managing appetite and passive burn.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's why you nap dinner away

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's really just if you eat a large meal before sleeping. You actually burn a decent amount of calories while sleeping.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Don't take dietary advice from people named after chocolate bars.

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