If you want to lose weight successfully, it can help to step outside of the calorie-and-exercise box and be creative. Exhaustion is a sneaky saboteur of your weight loss efforts, and your stomach is often the first thing to suffer. Sleep deprivation disrupts your metabolism, seriously sabotaging efforts to maintain an ideal weight," says Jana Klauer, M.D., an obesity researcher at NYC's St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. Sleep deprivation throws off leptin levels, a hormone that tells your body how much potential energy it has stored, confusing your body the next day. Your body has no idea how much energy it has banked, so you end up storing fat instead of burning it.
The recommendation to eat breakfast every morning, regardless of appetite, also appears to be misguided (37, 38). One study found when people skipped breakfast, they took in more calories at lunch than when they'd eaten a morning meal. However, they consumed an average of 408 fewer calories for the day overall (38).
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