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"Are
Your Sleep Habits Affecting Your Weight
Loss?"
copyright 2003 by Greg Landry, M.S.
I know that it may seem a bit too simplistic
to assume that a change in your sleep habits
could aid your weight loss efforts. However,
let's take a look at this. Follow my logic
- backwards:
6. I believe that developing helathy eating
habits are much easier if you're exercising
five to seven days per week - consistently.
Healthy eating habits promote weight loss.
5. Exercising five to seven days per week
- consistently, is a major component of
a successful weight loss program
4. Most people who are successful at exercising
five to seven days per week are morning
exercisers. Read my archived article - "Top
10 Reasons to Exercise in the Morning".
3. Many people find it difficult to consistently
wake-up early to exercise, often because
they have not slept enough and because they
don't wake-up at the same time every day.
2. Many people don't get enough sleep because
they find it difficult to get to sleep early.
1. Just think about how your weight loss
situation might change if you were able
to get to sleep an hour earlier every night,
wake-up at the same time - an hour earlier
every morning, and spend that hour exercising.
Awhile back, we had a discussion about
this in one of my newsletters. Within a
few months of that, I received about forty
email messages similar to Jennifer's:
"Greg, I have to tell you that I was
a skeptic. I didn't really think I could
do this, or that it would really help my
weight loss. I've rearranged my evenings,
watch a little less TV, and I'm very careful
about getting to sleep on time (well, most
of the time). Getting up at the same time
every day has really helped too. My exercise
and weight loss have been very consistent.
Thanks for all the tips." Jennifer
Fort Worth, Texas
Can you alter your sleep habits and be
more consistent with your exercise and weight
loss? Give it a try!
Author and exercise physiologist, Greg
Landry, offers FREE weight loss success
stories and his "Fast, Healthy Weight
Loss" newsletter at his site: http://www.GregLandryFitness.com
copyright 2003 by Greg Landry, M.S.
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