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Researchers from one study have concluded that the amount of sleep you get contributes to your ability to maintain fat-free mass. Additionally, lack of sleep compromises your ability to lose weight during typical dietary interventions, such as when you reduce calories and eat healthier foods.When subjects got a ***** of sleep, more than half of the fat they lost due to dieting was from fat. However, when they reduced their sleep, only one-fourth of the weight the subjects lost was from fat.
This is because sleep is important for the regulation of hormones that contribute to appetite and metabolism. As noted in the study, the sleep-deprived subjects felt hungrier and produced higher levels of ghrelin, which is a hormone that makes you feel hungry, increases food intake, and stores fat.
Higher levels of ghrelin in the body have been shown to promote the retention of fat and increase glucose production to support the fueling needs of tissues that depend on glucose.
