Alcohol abuse is one of the usual causes of this condition. If you are a heavy alcohol drinker and ages 40 and above, you should consult a doctor if you experience these gallbladder disease symptoms: 1  Irritable bowel syndrome.  Difficulty in digesting fatty foods.
Fat Loss. Despite the weight loss, you don't shed a significant amount of fat as you sleep. A 155-pound person burns about 23 calories in 30 minutes while sleeping, according to Harvard Medical School, which translates to just 368 calories over eight hours. Shedding 1 pound of fat requires a deficit of 3,500 calories, so you can only lose about 1/10 pound of fat after a full night of sleep.
On average, we need about 7.5 hours of quality sleep per night, he says. âIf you are getting this already, another half hour will not help you lose 10 pounds, but if you are a five-hour sleeper and start to sleep for seven hours a night, you will start dropping weight.â. Exactly how lack of sleep affects our ability to lose weight has a lot to do with our nightly hormones, explains Breus. The two hormones that are key in this process are ghrelin and leptin. âGhrelin is the âgoâ hormone that tells you when to eat, and when you are sleep-deprived, you have more ghrelin,â Breus says.