Do you burn calories when you sleep?!


Question: absolutely everything you do burns calories. Just sleeping through the night (8 hours) burns 5-600 calories.


Answers: absolutely everything you do burns calories. Just sleeping through the night (8 hours) burns 5-600 calories.

...Yes... as long as you are biologically alive you burn calories.

you burn calories when you breathe, do you breathe when you sleep?

I think so, I think we do because you are excercising by breathing or something like that...

Yeah your body burns calories on a constant basis until you die. Just not much while you are sleeping.

Add a little resistance training to your schedule and you can rev up your body's calorie-burning engine!

Muscle works like a furnace, burning fat to create the energy your body needs for movement. More muscle equals more calories burned -- even while you sleep.

All you need to do is commit yourself to some form of resistance training five days a week and you should see noticeable benefits in one month!

Yes but your metabolic rate drops while people sleep ( metabolism is the rate at which chemical reactions happen in the body) so less kilojoules are burned up (I prefer to use the metric kilojoules as calories is an imperial measurement) so to answer your question yes calories are burned whilst you are asleep but not as much as when you are awake and are at rest.

yes why do you think breakfast is the most important meal

yeah, but not much

No, it doesn't if you have eaten any food after 8 PM at night. You are not active. However, we dream every 1/2 hour (don't remember most of our dreams and the ones we do remember including nightmares are in the first few seconds of waking.) Dreams of running or any other active motion can help burn calories, but if you eat after 8 PM or even drink alcohol you are nothing but a sleeping couch potato!





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