Lose Weight While You Sleep

Does this premise--Lose weight while you sleep--sound ridiculous? It shouldn't; you do. How is that, since you aren't burning calories and your body isn't eliminating waste during sleep? Oh, but you are, and it does. In fact, it is the elimination of waste during sleep that produces the greater loss.

Converting Matter into Energy

Matter can be broken down in different ways. One spectacular way is through the splitting of atoms--called fission. The amount of matter required to destroy a city is surprisingly small. Yet, nuclear fission is like a cap pistol compared to the energy produced in the absolute destruction of matter by antimatter. Fortunately for us and for our needs, there is the considerably milder and more enjoyable chemical breakdown of food.

Chemical Energy

The energy the human body extracts from a single hotdog or any other food is called chemical energy. It is released through the breaking of chemical bonds. Although nutrients are extracted from food, the majority of energy results from metabolizing carbohydrates. Carbohydrates consist of sugars, starches and fats. Much of the food energy is liberated through the breakdown of carbon-carbon bonds. These bonds are broken with the aid of the oxygen we breathe. That energy produced keeps our bodies warm and alive! This is good news, but how do we lose weight?

Losing Weight Day and Night

Much weight is lost by the body's excretion of wastes in the obvious manner--through the bowel and through the bladder. It should be noted this is by no means the only way we lose weight. There are two other ways--one of these is through perspiration. We perspire during the day, and at night--while we sleep. There is another, remarkable way, though. It is remarkable because we lose a considerable amount of weight without noticeable signs of that fact!

Here's the Secret

The conversion of carbon-carbon bonds by means of oxygen produces not only heat, but also carbon dioxide. In addition, carbon-hydrogen bonds are converted into carbon dioxide and water. Much of this carbon dioxide gas and water (as vapor), generated in the cells, exits the body through its "smokestack"--the lungs. Put simply, we breathe weight away. The reader desirous of losing weight will agree this in itself is a good thing. Some feel this natural process can be extended to weight-loss programs utilizing special breathing techniques. Others employ a controversial, perhaps even dangerous technique of artificial weight loss through the inducing of a coma-like state. While the patient "sleeps," he sleeps the pounds away. Such treatment may have contributed to the death of the famous actor and operatic singer, Mario Lanza.

References and Resources:

Clinton Community College: Cellular Respiration

Mail Online: Can you really lose weight by breathing?

The Baltimore Sun: What killed the famous tenor?

Mario Lanza, Hosted by Jeff Rense