Lift Weights Did you know that the more muscle you have, the more calories you will burn, even when you’re lying on the couch! The reason is that muscle is far more metabolically active than fat. Therefore you will burn energy (calories/ kilojoules) just to fuel your muscles. This is likely to help you to […]

Sleep deprivation causes changes in metabolism and hormone functioning, which can affect how the body burns and stores fat. There is also a particular link between sleep loss and obesity, because a lack of sleep lowers leptin, an important hormone that tells the body when it has eaten enough food, and increases ghrelin, the opposite […]

1.         Lie down to go to sleep only when you are tired. Don’t go to bed early to “catch up” on lost sleep if you’re not tired. Learn to recognise waves of sleepiness, which come every 60–90 minutes, and go to bed then. 2.         Avoid spending non-sleep time in bed. You should associate […]