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Sleep?
I'm a 14 year old girl and I'm overweight so I'm on a diet (a healthy one with exercise and all that) but I heard that staying up late can cause you to gain weight. Is this true? My eating habits don't change because I stay up late and I don't binge eat at night or anything. I go to bed at 3-5 AM but still get a full 8-10 hours (I'm on summer vacation and I don't have a job, I can sleep for as long as I want). So could this be affecting my weight loss?
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No, you'll be fine. Try not to overcomplicate your diet by worrying about everything you hear or read, dieting is hard enough! Just track your progress and make adjustments when needed.
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I cant say it weight loss if affected by being awake during those hours. But I do know that all bodies have an internal clock during which certain organs do their functions, all necessary for us to be healthy. A person can not change the time schedule of their bodys organs. You can only change its ability to be effective or not if eating during the night hours or simply being up instead of sleeping. I suppose if a body wasn't functioning as well because the organs functions are being thwarted, by a persons schedule, that it could be part of what effects ability to be at optimum health and that would include weight problems. It's not a matter that you are still getting your 8 hrs of sleep but it's when you are getting it. Read to following link that explains your bodys internal clock.
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I can verify by experience that my organs follow the schedule in the chart because at one time I was having problems with gall stones. The gall bladder works on the same schedule as our liver on the chart. Any fats taken in meals during the day, the body will need broken down to process.
Bile or Gall is a a bitter greenish to golden brown alkaline fluid secreted by the liver and stored in the gall bladder. The gall bladder acts as a pump to release bile as needed most of its work during during the hours listed in the chart. Stones will try to pass out with the bile and the size of them creates tremendous pain. I woke many times at those same hours having a pain attack from a stone passing. Eventually one stone did not pass, got stuck and I had to have the gall bladder removed. If you want information on how your awake vs sleep times may be affecting your weight, I'd check with the family doctor.
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I am very thin and always was and I dont need that much sleep, I think this is pure nonsense. I think people who are going to gain weight or are overweight/fat/obese use any excuse as to why they are overweight.
It is the same thing as these studies who say certain things can prolong ones life. How do they know this. We only go around once so there is no way to prove this. A person would have to come back from the dead and do things differently to see if they would live longer.
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