Getting up late on weekends helps you lose weight

Staying in bed for an extra hour and a half helps avoid hunger attacks and binge eating

If it weighs on your conscience that you woke up late this weekend, don't feel guilty, on the contrary, congratulate yourself because you have started to weight loss. Besides the fact that, thanks to those extra hours of sleep, you feel more relaxed and with the feeling of having "charged your batteries" for the long week ahead, sleeping more - even if it's only an hour and a half more - helps you weight loss.

Researchers at the University of Chicago have found that extra sleep is the key to defeating hunger attacks and binges of greasy, high-calorie food.

The study, conducted on ten overweight adults between 21 and 40 years old, reveals that those who went to bed earlier or got up later experienced a 14% loss of appetite and 62% of the desire to snack on unhealthy foods.

Previous studies had already revealed that sleeping is not very fattening, partly because it disrupts the hormonal balance that keeps the appetite at bay. But the scientists of the University of Chicago investigated if a simple change in the patterns of sleep could change the bad alimentary habits as they exlpican in the study published in the medical newspaper "Appetite".