Embracing Midlife

#13: The connection between sleep and weight loss

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Most people appreciate that eating well and sleeping well impact on your mental and physical wellbeing.

What many people don’t realize is how much these two areas impact each other and overlap, eating well and managing your weight can depend on how you sleep, and sleeping well may depend on how well you eat and manage your weight.

In this episode we talk about:

How our sleep impacts:

  • Eating habits including emotional eating and cravings
  • Hormones - Ghrelin, Leptin and Vasopressin
  • Metabolism 

    • How what we eat and the way we eat impacts our sleep:

    We talk about 

    • Meal timing
    • Caffeine
    • Sugar
    • Alcohol 
    • Spicy foods
    • Fatty foods
    • Water intake

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      Lifestyle and behaviour change to manage menopause symptoms 

      The top 5 reasons why sleep is so important for your health

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