Plus, if your doctor recommends
sleep restriction therapy (which means spending only a set number of hours in bed,
whether you
sleep or not), you'll want to avoid crawling under the covers during the daytime entirely.
Furthermore, our finding that obtaining an adequate
sleep duration reduced overeating and consumption of fats and carbohydrates, combined with findings of reduced fat loss during a caloric
restriction regimen when obtaining insufficient
sleep (42) indicates clinical trials are needed to determine
whether sleep is a modifiable risk factor that can assist weight loss and maintenance programs to improve dietary habits and metabolic health.