Sleep Challenge

Question of the day: Are you getting enough sleep?

Between home life, school, sports, jobs, assignments and trying to have a social life, the first thing we sacrifice is SLEEP. The truth is, our bodies need sleep like a fish needs water.

• Sleep helps consolidate your memories so that you have a bank of information and experience when you need it. So, no matter how hard you study, how much you try retain all that information, you still need to sleep to let your brain process all that information you’ve gathered.

• Sleep also helps maintain your metabolism, essential for weightloss. Have you noticed that when you don’t get enough sleep, you tend to crave carbs and sugar more? If you’re trying to loose weight, healthy sleep is ESENTIAL to helping curb those sugar cravings, preventing you from loosing that weight.

• If that isn’t enough, during sleep, skin makes new cells twice as fast as when youre awake, repairing the environmental damage and healing acne blemishes.

So, are you getting enough sleep (8 to 10 hours a night)

One of your goals this month is to regulate your sleeping patterns e.g 7am Wake, 10pm bedtime, weekends, weekdays, everyday. I challenge you to take this up too. You will never feel so energised during the days since you were a kid!