Simple answer to losing weight fast: Sleep more

There are all kinds of weight loss tips and healthy eating guidelines for you to follow. There is a new healthy weight loss diet coming out almost every week. Now many of these healthy eating guidelines and weight loss tips are valid points and should be followed if you want to achieve permanent weight loss.

You may be overlooking a major component to successful weight loss. This has nothing to do with healthy eating guidelines or exercise intervals. It has to do with recovery and your downtime.
How much sleep do you get each and every night?
The amount of sleep you get could be the make or break tip to you weight loss success. Research studies are showing that those who are sleep deprived have higher levels of bodyfat compared to those who get adequate sleep each night.
Studies have also linked a lack of sleep to hypertension and Type 2 diabetes. A study in the Canadian Journal of Epidemiology followed 13,000 Canadians for 16 years and found that those who got five hours or less of sleep per night were one third more likely to gain 30 plus pounds over the course of the study than those who slept seven hours or longer.
Another study at Laval University reported that subjects who slept the least had higher levels of bodyfat than those who slept 8 hours or more.
The commonalities that both studies have are that the participants who lacked sleep had lower levels of the hormone leptin and higher levels of the hormone ghrelin. Leptin is produced primarily by the fat cells and this hormone works to decrease hunger and increase your metabolic rate. The hormone Ghrelin is produced by the gastrointestinal tract and increases your hunger. This is an imbalance of two key hormones that affect your body type and whether you gain weight or not.
The simple answer to correct this is to obviously sleep more. There are other things you can and should be doing to keep your leptin level elevated and your ghrelin level low, but the most often overlooked weight loss tip is sleep. We are all very busy and sleep is something we wish we could do more of and just never seem to get it.
If you are one who struggles with losing weight. You have tried healthy weight loss diet after diet and you still seem to struggle with your weight loss than I suggest this. Record how much sleep you get each night for one week. Before you go to bed each night evaluate how your day was. Were you tired? Did you wake up refreshed? Did you feel that you needed more sleep?
After this one week of recording your sleep look at how many hours on average you slept each night. If it wasn’t 7 hours then make it a goal to average 7 hours of sleep a night. If you did average 7 hours and you still felt tired every morning then work to increase that average to 8 hours and see how you feel. Every person is a little different when it comes to required restful sleep. You may need to experiment with this a little.
If you are serious about permanently losing weight though I suggest you make increasing your sleep a priority or everything else you do to lose weight may be for nothing.

Next Session

Hey Bootcampers,

This is just a reminder of Friday February 27 is the last day of the session. The next session will run another 8 weeks starting Monday March 2 and ending April 24. The schedule will be the same.
I'm getting excited because there will be a many days that we will be able to go outdoors and enjoy the spring weather. Please confirm by email your spot because we all know classes are getting full and I can't take anymore then 13 participants in each hour.
thanks,

Class Schedule: Monday/Wednesday/Friday 6am, 9am, 10am
Monday/ Thursday 7pm
Saturday at 9:30am

Existing Saturday campers please confirm ASAP because there is much interest in this day.
Also, 6am campers I need confirmation ASAP as this class is very popular.

So let get pumped and fit.

Cost $520.00

Getting the ole lady ready for the Fitness show in April.

Breda Donnelly's birthday party February 20, 2009

I know many of you have not met my wife but she is the one with the Asian type shirt between to Carol and Breda.

Intrafitt Evenings

Hey Bootcampers,

I know this is last minute but I will be
starting the evening bootcamps this week
Monday and Thursday evening at 7:15pm at
Bloordale Middle school(Renforth and Toledo
road)The session will run for 8 weeks at
$50.00 per week March 2 to April 20.
Please let me know ASAP if you want in.
I'm only taking 12 to participants.
 

Motivational Quote

"Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals."

- Dorothy Height

Setting goals and workin' for them...

Taking training to next level.

Intrafitt Bootcamp Family Day Chaos!!!

Thanks to all that showed up to Family Day's workout it was a great day! I Enjoyed seeing all your children.

Broken CPU and Mondays Workout.

Hey Bootcampers,

I finally broke down and headed to my local library to use the CPU. My CPU should be ready for Monday and I will be able to do all meal plans I'm behind on and update the blog with all the fun stuff daily. Please be patient with me...

Monday is a holiday so I will be running 1 bootcamp at 9:00am for whoever wants to attend.