SLEEP YOUR WAY THIN – ASK ME HOW!

At last, a diet we can all get behind. A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that getting more sleep each night may help facilitate weight loss. MAY. By increasing their sleep by about an hour a night, study participants reduced their caloric intake by an average of 270 calories a day. According to researchers at the University of Chicago Sleep Center, these new findings demonstrate that healthy sleep habits may lead to weight loss over time. MAY. This amount could translate to a loss of 26 pounds over 3 years. COULD.
* So, I’ll see you all tomorrow morning, an hour later. Tell the breakfast burrito lady to come an hour later, too.
* This whole “extra hour of sleep” sounds great, but you’ve got to get everybody else on the program: your dog, your cat, your kids, your bladder…
* Here’s what actually happens: You sleep an extra hour, it’s now an additional hour since you last had something to eat, and you wake up hungrier.
* Can you fit that extra hour of sleep into different parts of the day? Like during Zoom meetings?
* The University of Chicago Sleep Center – yet another career path my high school guidance counselor neglected to tell me about.