(Article) A good night's sleep may make it easier to stick to exercise and diet goals
The researchers examined whether good sleep health was related to how well people adhered to the various lifestyle modifications prescribed in a 12-month weight loss program. The weight-loss program included 125 adults (average age of 50 years, 91% female, 81% white) who met criteria for overweight or obesity (body mass index of 27-44) without any medical conditions requiring medical supervision of their diet or physical activity.
After adjusting the sleep health scores for age, gender, race and whether or not there was a partner sharing the bed, the researchers found that better sleep health was associated with higher rates of attendance at group interval sessions, adherence to caloric intake goals and improvement in time spent performing moderate-vigorous physical activity. They found:
- Participants attended 79% of group sessions in the first six months and 62% of group sessions in the second six months.
- Participants met their daily caloric intake goals on 36% of days in the first six months and 21% in the second six months.
- Participants increased their total daily time spent in moderate-vigorous activity by 8.7 minutes in the first six months, however, their total time spent decreased by 3.7 minutes in the second six months.
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Reflection:
Does a good night's sleep help you stick to your goals?
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Interesting stuff for sure.
Generally I find that getting good sleep does help me in the gym, and motivation-wise. I'm a 21 year old and I've been surviving off of 6 hours of sleep daily for the best part of two years now. Generally I think 6 hours is the bare minimum and anything more than 10 is going overboard. But then again, we are all different, it's hard to measure and test! We'd need a bigger sample of people to test.