Prioritize Quality Sleep Has A Good Impact On Weight Loss? This Is What Experts Say

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JAKARTA - When losing a lot of weight, it must be considered and done well. Starting from maintaining a healthy diet, exercising regularly, to quality sleep.

Prioritizing quality sleep greatly affects the smoothness of the weight loss process. By sleeping on a daily basis, the weight loss process can take place better.

If someone who is on a diet does not sleep enough, then he can experience unstable emotions. This can lead him to various impulsive actions, including excessive eating.

"If you're sleep deprived, you're potentially more emotionally fragile, so you're more likely to make impulsive food choices," said clinical diabetes expert Professor Total Scott of Leeds University, quoted by the BBC, on Tuesday, September 2, 2025.

The habit of irregular sleep and late at night will also affect eating hours. Late night sleep allows you to consume excess food, so that the weight loss process can be disrupted.

This also causes the ability of the body's hormones to remind you of the feeling of fullness of annoyance. This will make a person continue to eat food without realizing fullness.

"People who experience night sleep disorders, their hunger increases and their ability to feel full after eating actually decreases," he said.

"Leptin usually tells us when we are full, but lack of sleep tends to cause lower leptin levels, which is why people are still feeling hungry," he added.

Therefore, it is highly recommended to have quality sleep every day, especially for those of you who are losing weight. Quality sleep generally is a sound sleep duration of 7 to 8 hours every night for adults.

To get quality sleep can be done by creating a comfortable and dark sleep environment, avoiding gadgets, caffeine, and heavy foods before bedtime, relaxation, to regular exercise.