Top Weight Loss Mistakes Made by Women Over 50

18. Ignoring Your Sleep Leads To More Weight Gain

Exercise and eating healthy will only do so much if you’re not sleeping correctly. Getting fewer than the recommended hours of sleep will make your body retain fat. In fact, studies have shown that sleep-deprived adults who lost weight were losing muscle weight instead of fat weight. That is the exact opposite of what someone over 50 needs. If you get enough sleep, you’ll show improved results in the amount of fat you lose regularly.

What’s also a bad idea is not going to sleep at the same time every night. If you’re constantly changing up your sleep schedule, then your body isn’t learning what its rhythm is supposed to be. That means that it doesn’t know when it should be resting from when it should be working, and that can make it retain more weight than it should. Choose a time to go to bed every night, regardless of how you feel or what you need to get done, and set the alarm to wake up at the same time every day. You’ll be surprised to see just how much better your weight loss journey starts to become.