The Effect of Sleep on Weight Loss

Overweight adults were randomized to eight weeks of a calorie restricted diet or the same diet combined. The sleep restricted group achieved the one hour a day Less sleep on weekdays, but ended up sleeping an hour more on the weekend days. Overall they just cut about three hours of sleep out of their week with just those few hours a week may any weight loss difference on the scale No But in the normal sleep group 80% of the weight loss was fat Whereas in the group just missing a few hours of sleep a week. It was the opposite80% of the loss was lean. This shows that aFew hours of catch-up sleep on the weekends is insufficient And may in fact be contributing to