health and fitness
So that's where all that bread is going
I snore. A lot.
And I eat. A lot. All the time. Day and night.
Surprisingly, although far from ever being skinny, I have so far never been obese.
I thought I simply had a a very active metabolism, but a team of scientists from the University of California, San Francisco suggests another explanation: snoring makes you burn on average 373 extra calories a night (the equivalent of a vigorous thirty-minute gym workout).
On the flipside, snoring also causes sleep deprivation makes you sluggish during the day (thus less inclined to exercise), and more prone to overeating (because of diminished willpower). Check, and check.
I had been considering visiting a sleep clinic to figure out if my snoring can be cured. However, not that it turns out that if I stopped snoring I would put on 3.2 pounds a month, the question is: have I got more chances of holding on to my boyfriend by stopping snoring or by maintaining my figure?
On a related note, Dr B. has recently coined an endearing term for me, I'll let him tell you in the comments if he reads this. I'm not particularly fond of it but it beats being kicked in the shins in the middle of the night so that I wake up and stop snoring.