A curious article that appeared in the Daily Mail lists good habits for losing weight while sleeping, indeed, to promote weight loss at night.
Okay, some will be true, some are hilarious. Clearly, we can read articles like this for fun, without expecting miracles if we adopt these behaviors: it is certain that the night is often linked to weight loss.
Yes, ok, but why?

There are those who say that it is during the night that the body carries out the weight loss processes, but I have never read anywhere that would explain this in a certain and unequivocal way. Growth hormone peaks are known to occur at certain intervals during sleep, suggesting thatwhile we sleep, cellular and therefore muscle repair processes take place more easily than during the day.

The physicist Derek Muller , who has a nice youtube scientific dissemination channel called Veritasium , explains that during the night you lose weight because on the one hand you lose fluids and on the other hand you lose a small part of weight by breathing, through the release of carbon dioxide. In fact when we think we have lost weight, it actually didn’t magically disappear, but we breathed it in, while we otherwise lost fluids.

So suppose you do indeed experience overnight weight loss (a lipogenetic effect that may not necessarily be compensated for during the day, or we would all be pins), are there any ways to maximize it? Here’s what they recommend