Don’t let the title fool you, this isn’t some magic plan where if you sleep exactly right the pounds will just rapidly melt away. Instead this is a guide explaining how sleeping better teamed up with a healthy lifestyle can benefit your dieting efforts.

Starting off you receive a lot of medical information about hormones, what they do to your body, and how sleep or lack of sleep effect them. After this you start getting into the help portion of the book. There are numerous helpful tips on how to sleep better including finding out the right number of hours of sleep you personally need. But this book doesn’t just focus on sleep.

Other parts focus on ways to manage stress and how to determine what is causing it. There is a look at exercise, how much you should try and get, and a breakdown on the different types like cardio and strength training. From there you get into dieting and vitamins. Then it is back to sleeping. But this time it switches gears to look at foods that can keep you up or help you sleep. And it touches on insomnia, the different kinds, the causes, and ways to treat it. Last they include a 21 day menu and some parting words while summing up the book.

See not as easy as the title may lead you to believe; but that doesn’t make this a bad purchase if you are looking to start losing weight or perhaps give your dieting a little nudge this really may help. In fact after reading it there is more too it than just losing a few pounds. With the inclusion of managing stress, getting more out of your sleep, and insomnia this branches into being more of a life help book than just dieting. And for those that like instant gratification it is very easy to choose the chapters that interest you without being lost, so you have the option of focusing on only what you are personally dealing with. Will this book help you whip off 45 pounds in just a few days without ever leaving your bed? No, but by putting together all the tips they include it can help you get on a healthier path while shedding some weight.

-Martha has been a writer for Shakefire.com since 2006.

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