Are You Getting Enough Sleep

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She has finished six hours of voice over for my new 2011 fitness ultimatum game: Save Our Souls. She says, “It is going to be sick.”

Question: What Diet Do the Losing it Families Go On?

I basically put them the Master Your Metabolism diet. Then I set the women’s calories at 1200 intake & men’s cal intake at 1600 daily. I have the guys burning 4,500 cals a day and the women burning 3,500 cals a day.

Tips on Overcoming Emotional eating: Create coping mechanisms & recovery behaviors that are life affirming, not self destructive. Instead of binging join a support group, call a friend, get a massage or do something that makes you feel beautiful like a mani / pedi. Go workout. Exercise boosts your mood & put you back in the power seat. &… remove crap food from your house. No matter how bad you feel you can’t eat what isn’t there.

Get Seven Hours of Sleep

A full night’s sleep is not a luxury — it’s a basic necessity for healthy hormone balance. Once you dip below seven hours a night, you are increasing your risk of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, depression, and obesity.

Some researchers believe that slow-wave sleep — the deep, dreamless sleep that you ideally sink into about three or four times a night — may actually regulate your metabolism. Sleep researcher break down sleep into five stages. Stage 4 slow-wave sleep, which begins about an hour after we fall asleep, is when we release our greatest pulses of growth hormone, the hormone that prompts the body to burn stored fat. When we’re young, we spend about 20 percent of our time asleep in slow-wave stages 3 and 4. But as we get older, we may only spend about 10 or even 5 percent there.

Sadly, just two nights of bad sleep will cut your satiety hormone leptin by 20 percent and increase your hunger hormone ghrelin by 30 percent. That one-two punch makes you much more likely to snack on high-carb treats, which couldn’t come at a worse time for your insulin levels. In a recent study, University of Chicago researchers found that just three nights of poor sleep made the bodies of young, healthy test subjects 25 percent less sensitive to insulin. This level of insulin resistance is comparable to that brought on by carrying 20 to 30 extra pounds.

In order to block fat-storage hormones and allow the full release of fat-burning hormones, you need to get at least seven hours of sleep a night!