Often Aggravated, Experts Express Errors That Make Diet Failed

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JAKARTA - Has you been on a diet by adjusting your diet, but is it still difficult to lose weight? It could be that this happened because you made one mistake that is often taken lightly, even though it has a big effect on your diet.

The error was not managing the sleep pattern properly. Lack of sleep can hinder the weight loss process.

This is because sleep helps restore physical and mental energy, and plays a major role in regulating weight. Lack of sleep can have a negative impact on daily diet.

"Even just one night lack of sleep can have a negative impact on your diet," said nutritionist Melissa Azzaro, RDN, quoted from WebMD, on Monday, July 28, 2025.

Humans need enough sleep to have good body energy. If the body lacks rest, then the desire to eat high-carb and sugar foods tends to increase, and will be more lazy to exercise.

"When your body feels tired, you will be more lazy to exercise or can't exercise with enough intensity to burn fat," he explained.

In addition, it should be noted that bad sleep patterns can also disrupt the hormonal balance that regulates hunger.

Sleep less than six to eight hours per night will affect important hormones in the body, such as increased ghrelin (hungmons that cause hunger), and decreased leptin (hormons that give a signal of fullness), "explained another nutritionist, Younkin, MS, RD.

This hormonal imbalance makes the body tend to eat more until it can eventually cause weight gain. It can also increase the body's mass index, and the tendency to eat unhealthy, which of course affects the diet.