BURN FAT WHILE YOU SLEEP (THE SCIENCE EXPLAINED!)

Sleep can help you burn fat in several powerful ways—mainly by supporting hormone balance, metabolism, and recovery. 

Here’s My Top 5 Ways That BETTER Sleep BURNS Fat:

🔑 1. Regulates Fat-Storing Hormones 

  • Lack of sleep increases cortisol, which is a stress hormone that promotes fat storage, especially around your belly. (not good!)
  • It also disrupts insulin sensitivity, making your body WORSE at processing sugar and more likely to store it as fat. (also not good)

🍽️ 2. CONTROLS HUNGER HORMONES

  • Sleep impacts ghrelin (hunger hormones) and leptin (fullness hormone).
    • Less sleep = more ghrelin, less leptin -> you feel hungrier and eat more, especially junk food.

🔥 3. BOOSTS RESTING METABOLISM

  • Sleep helps you maintain a healthy basal metabolic rate (BMR), the number of calories you burn at rest.

  • Poor sleep can slow down your metabolism, making it harder to burn calories efficiently.

💪 4. ENHANCES FAT LOSS DURING WEIGHT LOSS

  • Studies show that people on a calorie deficit who sleep well lose more fat than muscle, while poor sleepers lose more muscle than fat—even with the same diet.

🛠️5. SUPPORTS MUSCLE RECOVERY (MORE MUSCLE = MORE FAT BURNING)

  • Deep sleep boosts growth hormone, which repairs and builds muscle tissue.

  • More lean muscle mass raises your daily calorie burn – even when you’re not working out.

I challenge you THIS WEEK to take the Sleep/Health Assessment. (See Infographic Below)

Few of you will get a perfect score on each one. If you do, that’s great! Keep that going throughout your lifetime, but if you miss a few or all of them, just start with the basics of No Screens After 9pm and work your way through the assessment.

These not only give you a litmus test of your sleep quality but also of your HEALTH!