"Are Your Sleep Habits Affecting Your Weight Loss?"
copyright 2002 by Greg Landry, M.S.
I know that it may seem a bit too simplistic
to assume that a change in your sleep habits
could aid your weight loss efforts. However,
let's take a look at this. Follow my logic -
backwards:
6. I believe that developing helathy eating habits
are much easier if you're exercising five to seven
days per week - consistently. Healthy eating habits
promote weight loss.
5. Exercising five to seven days per week -
consistently, is a major component of a
successful weight loss program
4. Most people who are successful at exercising
five to seven days per week are morning
exercisers. Read my archived article - "Top
10 Reasons to Exercise in the Morning".
3. Many people find it difficult to consistently
wake-up early to exercise, often because they
have not slept enough and because they don't
wake-up at the same time every day.
2. Many people don't get enough sleep because
they find it difficult to get to sleep early.
1. Just think about how your weight loss situation
might change if you were able to get to sleep
an hour earlier every night, wake-up at the same
time - an hour earlier every morning, and spend that
hour exercising.
Awhile back, we had a discussion about this in
one of my newsletters. Within a few months of
that, I received about forty email messages
similar to Jennifer's:
"Greg, I have to tell you that I was a skeptic. I
didn't really think I could do this, or that it
would really help my weight loss. I've rearranged
my evenings, watch a little less TV, and I'm
very careful about getting to sleep on time
(well, most of the time). Getting up at the same
time every day has really helped too. My exercise
and weight loss have been very consistent. Thanks
for all the tips."
Jennifer
Fort Worth, Texas
Can you alter your sleep habits and be more
consistent with your exercise and weight loss?
Give it a try!
Author and exercise physiologist, Greg Landry,
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copyright 2002 by Greg Landry, M.S.
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