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"How&amp;#39;s your sleep quality lately? Are you getting enough zzzs? If anxiety is keeping you up (or insomnia, screaming children, or work deadlines) and you&amp;#39;re wondering why the pounds just won&amp;#39;t go away, here&amp;#39;s some news for you...\nPinterestFacebookPHOTO: Tyler StalmanExperts have long drawn a correlation between lack of sleep and weight gain, but now a new study takes it a step further: Don&amp;#39;t get enough sleep and you&amp;#39;re liable to pack on pounds.\nResearchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madison say that not getting enough sleep can &amp;quot;sabotage&amp;quot; weight loss goals, noting a correlation between lack of sleep and the body&amp;#39;s tendency to hold on to pesky accumulations of fat.\nThe study examined the sleep/weight loss effects of good quality sleep (8.5 hours) vs. poor quality sleep (5.5 hours) and found that the good quality sleep group lost more fat than the poor quality group (even though their caloric intake was the same).\nSort of fascinating, isn&amp;#39;t it?\nHow&amp;#39;s your sleep lately? Getting somewhere in the good quality range (7.5-8.5 hours)?\nMore reading:\nThe smart way to get more sleep and more energy ...\nThe shocking reason why you&amp;#39;re yawning ...\nWhy having a bedtime snack may help you fall asleep faster ...\nMore Ways to Get Glamour\nVisit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! \nEnter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! \nFollow us on Twitter \nAdd us to your iGoogle homepage \nPhoto: istock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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