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Good Night's Sleep Can Help You Maintain Diet, Exercise Goals (article)

sunnyWriting4806 March 15th, 2023

“The preliminary findings from this study build on an existing body of research that more robustly links healthy sleep with numerous benefits.

“From a behavioral psychology perspective, lifestyle changes often build on one another. Starting with a healthy sleep routine with consistent sleep and wake time allows individuals to anchor additional health behaviors to a solid foundation of sleep,” said Luger.

There’s also evidence that poor sleep can have detrimental effects on your health. “Almost any medical and psychiatric condition can be worsened with poor quality sleep. We know sleep is linked to cardiovascular health, immune function, mood, attention, and energy level, just to name a few,” said Kansagra.

In relation to the study, Kansagra added, “We know that sleep deprivation causes fatigue and mood changes, which may negatively affect your willingness to exercise.” Lia Turpin, RPSGT, a sleep technician at HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Sleep Disorders Center in O’Fallon, Illinois, told Healthline that “when our sleep health is optimal, our bodies function at a higher level, including mental and hormonal health. These have huge impacts on weight loss as well as how our bodies heal and recover from daily activities and exercise.””

My Takeaways:

  • A pilot study focusing on the effects of sleep and people’s exercise and general health habits show that there is an association between increased sleep and healthy sleep scheduling with exercise and diet maintenance.

  • There is the point in that sometimes an overall dedication to start building habits can connect these different associations. One who strives to be healthy overall may seek to change their sleep, diet and exercise all simultaneously at the same time.

  • Oftentimes healthy behaviors come to reap more motivation and willpower to maintain other healthy behaviors. A good sleep schedule can promote your energy throughout the day and consequently your motivation in carrying out other challenging tasks such as going to the gym or getting up to cook a meal rather than eating out.

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How does your life with good sleep compare to when you have bad sleep?

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Sleepwalkermw March 20th, 2023

@sunnyWriting4806

Sunny thank you for providing this info, it actually couldn't come to a better time for me. I just truly feel like I extremely neglected my sleeping habits lately and right now I see this influencing my performance, my mood, my health, my overall confidence and beliefs about how capable I am. I also noticed constantly having negative thoughts, which are most probably a result of poor sleep.

Great article! This is a very important topic about which most of us don't really think about.

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sunnyWriting4806 OP March 22nd, 2023

@Sleepwalkermw

Of course! Glad that the information helped. I also have the same effect of bad sleep: I'm more cranky, tired and a little less motivated to do my work!

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PoliteOcean March 21st, 2023

@sunnyWriting4806

Thank you again for sharing another wonderful and informative article with our community!

I know for sure that I typically feel better when I sleep better (and longer), then I do when I don't. However, for me, it seems as though I need to do that a few nights in a row to reap full and complete benefits. Maybe at least 2-3 nights in a row. And of course, the older we get, the more our sleep habits tend to change too.

But I have been totally working on better sleep habits for a few months now. Its something we need to keep working at and stay consistent with for sure!

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sunnyWriting4806 OP March 22nd, 2023

@PoliteOcean

When it comes to sleep consistency is definitely key. Although a full 8 hour sleep can help its really when we keep a consistent schedule of 8 hours every night when we begin to really realize the effect it has on our general mental health

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7motivation April 1st, 2023

@sunnyWriting4806

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Thanks for posting your thread!

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sunnyWriting4806 OP April 1st, 2023

@7motivation

Thank you for the link! I was looking for this haha :)

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7motivation April 1st, 2023

@sunnyWriting4806

You're welcome! 🌝

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