Yes this is a fact that sleeping burns more calories than watching TV sound’s weird or circus tic but believe it or not it is a truth not an illusion. While we sleep it burns twice as much calories compared to watching television. Depending on the weight of the body proportionately the calorie gets burnt while sleeping because while we sleep then the body does repairing work using this energy .If a weight of a human body is 150pounds in case woman then it can burn 63 calories per hour.
There is pattern in which calorie burns in a human body while sleeping depending on the body weight
Are as follows:- for 160 pounds you burn 69 calories
Per hour while sleeping which adds up to 552 calories burned during eight hours of sleep.
A 120-pound person burns 51 calories per hour sleeping or 408 for 8 hours of sleep a 200 pound person burns 86 calories per hr 688 for eight hours a sleep.
If you substitute exercise with at least 7hours of sleep in the motto of losing weight then my friend you are in a wrong track because when your body gets fewer sleep i.e. less than 7 hours then hormones that increase your appetite kick into high gear. This will likely make you eat more than you would have rested. In addition to being hungry, your body will also crave carbohydrates and other high calories foodstuffs
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