The sleep quality and obesity turns out connect each other, since the condition can increase the sleep problem like insomnia.
On the contrary, you need to improve the sleep quality since obesity can disrupt the metabolism.
Yes lack of sleep does not only make you look tired the whole day but also the metabolism system that can be ruined.
The mechanism that explains the imbalance of hormones especially leptin and ghrelin.
Leptin itself works to give certain signal to our brain meanwhile ghrelin stimulate hunger.
Those combination can cause you feel so hungry, even though the required energy is already there. Therefore a person can eat more especially in night.
Lack of sleep can affect how you choose foods. People whose sleep in under six or seven hours tend to consume foods with high fat, calories and sugar.
This is correlated with stress hormones, cortisol which is increase when you don't get enough rest.
The high cortisol can also trigger the "emotional eating" and the increase of fat storage especially in stomach area.
The another factor is the habit changes. Lack of sleep can make you tired and you also tend to reduce the physical activity because of it.
This also includes the loss of motivation for doing exercise, and also things that can affect your focus like the use of gadget.
Obesity itself have direct impact to the metabolic health, and also your sleep quality of course.
As explained, people with the condition have more risk of insomnia compared to people with ideal weight.
According to Penn State University, people with obesity tend to suffer with excessive drowsiness at day, even when they have slept enough at night.
Obesity can affect body metabolism and the circadian rhythm, the natural cycle that you don't want to ruin in first place.
The imbalance of certain hormones as explained, can affect the sleep pattern.
Obesity is often connected with chronic inflammation, with the fat cells produce the bad effect in stomach area.
This why no matter how long people with weight problem, they may still feel sleepy on the day.
In long term, those combination between sleep problem and the obesity can form "infinity" cycle that is hard to break.
Lack of sleep increases the appetite and also craving to foods with high calories that can worsen the overweight condition, while the obesity that is treated well can have bad impact to sleep.
Not only insomnia since the condition is often related with sleep apnea, the trouble while breathing when you sleep.
Now there are certain aspect to fix for the weight problem and also the habit of sleep that must be improved better.
To improve the sleep quality try to make a clear schedule, review your routine before getting to bed and more healthy habits related to it.
You can find more comfortable bed to use that actually improve the sleep and gives no pressure to the body when you sleep on it.
And of course the more balanced meal plan with high calories foods you can try to reduce, and avoid "heavy" meals few hours before you sleep.
