Does Light Sleep Cause Weight Gain?
If you wake up at the slightest noise or spend the night "near he surface," you are a light sleeper.
– And you've noticed that, even eating less, the number on the scale just keeps creeping up. What's the link? –
The "gold" of sleep is in the deep REM and slow-wave phases. That's where metabolism truly resets.
Light sleep doesn't allow your body to reach this crucial phase of "maintenance" and hormonal repair.
– Without this deep repair, your body overproduces cortisol (the stress hormone) the moment you wake up. –
High cortisol is a metabolic disaster. It screams at your body: "Hold on to energy! Store fat now!"
The problem is your body is stuck in survival and alert mode, not in the "rest and burn" mode.
It is possible to train your brain to finally reach these deep phases and reactivate your metabolism.