hunger and sleep
Specialists in sleep medicine revealed that not getting enough sleep during the upcoming Eid days or other days, gives signals to the body that it is going through abnormal conditions or some threat, it requires slowing down the metabolism process. What causes the body to eat more food to obtain more energy, helps it to deal with its expected conditions.
Staying up for extended hours
The consultant of chest diseases and sleep medicine, director of the Center for Sleep Medicine and Research at King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah, called Professor Siraj Omar Wali, and Dr. Ibrahim Zakaria, a researcher in sleep medicine, for the necessity of controlling sleep and waking hours during the days of Eid, and not depriving the body of sleep by staying up for extended hours. As sleep is regarded as the food that the brain and body need, so staying up late and bad sleep push the body to react (through its hormones) in an unstable and unexpected way. Such as a disorder of insulin secretion in the body, which in turn disrupts the way the body deals with sugar or burns it to provide the body with energy, and thus it is stored in the body in the form of fat.
Frontal lobe lethargy
The two consultants indicated that lack of sleep also causes the mind to make many wrong decisions, as lethargy occurs in the frontal lobe responsible for making decisions, which causes the body to lose control of its emotions, and this increases the person’s appetite for eating, as various scientific studies revealed Lack of sleep would leave a person hungry all the time. Lack of sleep is associated with increased hunger, stimulation of cravings for foods that are high in fats and carbohydrates, and thus weight gain.
And they continued: Sleep affects two main hormones associated with appetite, and they are as follows: the ghrelin hormone, which is the hunger hormone that promises the position of the brain''s signal to order food and the sense of hunger and when the number of hours of sleep decreases, its secretion in the body may increase, which gives you a sense of hunger and leads you to eat a lot Food and thus weight gain, while the other hormone is leptin, which is the satiety hormone and works on the exact opposite of its predecessor It is the brain’s signal for a sense of fullness and satiety, and when sleep is not satisfied, its secretion rate decreases, which increases the individual’s sense of the need for more and more food. People who do not get enough sleep not only suffer from overweight, but also from an increase in the level of sugar. In the blood, high blood pressure, and fat storage.
They pointed out that the study, conducted by researchers at the University of Leeds in Britain, indicated that “less sleep may mean more obesity, especially for those who have an unhealthy diet, and those who sleep fewer hours have lower levels of fat.” Named (HDL) and it is the good type of fat that helps remove bad fats from the blood circulation and protects - God willing - from cardiovascular disease.
The spiral of despair and frustration
And they clarified that it has become established that those who suffer a distinct shortage in their sleep hours do not lose weight easily, and that some of them may be exercising regularly and adhere to a low-calorie diet, but they do not lose weight. What he feels is the uselessness of what he does, and he enters into a cycle of despair and frustration, abandons sports, stops adhering to a diet, increases weight and then increases more, loses hope of reaching a suitable weight, and reaches the point of no return only due to lack of sleep, so the best advice It is giving the body enough sleep and rest during Eid, in particular or otherwise, in general. To avoid weight gain problems.
