In this post, we are going to tell you about some amazing foods that actually help you burn fat while you sleep. While it may seem kind of gimmicky to push through the idea of burning fat during sleep, you would be surprised to know that the body is always in a calorie-burning mode, even when you are fast asleep. Calories are converted into energy form to maintain all basic activities – from breathing to maintain the core temperature of the body, calories are needed for every function, even to pump blood efficiently to all the organs. Also, all cellular repair and regenerative activities in the body are undertaken while you sleep and needless to say, these also require some amount of energy in the form of calories. On a serious note, if you sleep for 8+ hours each night, you burn more fat whereas sleeping for less number of hours, the body would start reaching out for muscle instead of fat. Also, sleep deprivation can send fat-burning enzymes and essential hormones into a tizzy, increasing hunger hormone “ghrelin,” stress hormone “cortisol,” and lowering satiety hormone “leptin.” It is extremely important to eat the right food before bedtime, so that we can boost our metabolism and aid the weight loss process. Our choice of food for dinner should be stuff that would speed up metabolism, keep the gut happy, help you have better quality sleep, and be thermogenic in nature. Also, it would be a good idea to have foods with tryptophan (...