5 things to do at night to lose weight (and are not eating less)

5 things to do at night to lose weight (and are not eating less)

We want to lose weight quickly, but what we must do is change our habits, especially at night. We suggest what to do before sleeping
It is very easy to get home and desperately throw ourselves to the sofa to watch our favorite series or devour any app with fictional content, but if you want to lose weight, you must change your habits from tonight and restructure everything you do to change and lose weight. It is not only about taking care of your diet at dinner, which is also very important to avoid taking extra pounds, but there are a series of "rituals" before going to bed that will help us get rid of that unwanted weight that makes our lives bitter.

Night training

How lazy to exercise at night, right? In addition, many will think that doing it at that time will activate them and it will cost them more sleep, but fortunately it is not. A 2013 survey by the US National Sleep Foundation found that 56 to 67% of people who engaged in nocturnal physical activity slept much better, regardless of when they exercised.
Plus, exercising at night will ease your stress after a long day at the office. Running for 20 minutes increases the production of endorphins, which has been sweating the accumulated tension after a hard day at work. It may seem that running day and night is the same, and the truth is that it is so if we are practicing the same sport, but conditions change and you have to prepare.

Prepare the food

Eating out can be very expensive and not healthy at all. Restaurant food contains more than twice as many calories as should be consumed in a single session according to a 2013 study in 'Archives of Internal Medicine', so eating out becomes a negative option if what you want is to lose weight. Prepare your menu at night before bed, streamline portions, and make a healthy lunchtime meal.

Drink a lot of water

A team of German scientists has shown for the first time that, as popular tradition has it, drinking water makes you slim. The research, carried out at the Charité university clinic in Berlin, and published in the June issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, ensures that water intake reinforces the effects of a weight loss diet. Drinking half a liter before bed will help you lose 500 g without making any effort.

Let the darkness take over you

Make sure your bedroom is very dark. Melatonin is a natural hormone that is secreted by the human body and reaches its highest levels at night due to the absence of light. It fulfills a fundamental sleep induction function for our biological clock. Spanish scientists have discovered that the consumption of this hormone helps regulate weight gain because it stimulates the appearance of "beige fat", a type of cell that burns calories instead of storing them.

Regulates the thermostat

According to data from the British National Institute of Health, maintaining the room temperature at no more than 19 degrees Celsius helps to eliminate 7% more calories than if we let ourselves be guided by the classic 21 degrees. You will not freeze, and you will make your body feel the need to burn fat to keep its body temperature within normal limits. In addition, according to another study published in 'Plosone, enduring under the flow of an icy shower for just 30 seconds radically activates our brown fat (a type of fat that we have and that makes us lose weight) to the point that we could burn 400 calories extra while we sleep. "Make sure you stick your head under the tap: the back of the neck and shoulders is where the most brown fat is stored," recommends Edward Lane in "Men´s Health."