Poor sleep reduces willpower, making individuals approximately 90% more likely to choose unhealthy food options for breakfast.

“Poor sleep destroys your will power.”

“we gauged my capacity to have willpower and my willpower went down proportionally relative to how much deep sleep and how much REM sleep I got and so the less REM and deep I had the less self-control I had which increased the likelihood that I would eat poorly that night which would wreck my sleep again”

“And what we do know from multiple different studies is that the more the more sleep deficit you create, just a a few like an hour a night will actually change your willpower and can decrease your likelihood of making good decisions.”

“the bad sleep leads to poor willpower which has other cascade.”

“When you don't sleep well, your willpower falls off a cliff. >> So the next morning when you're trying to decide, do you eat the croissant or the doughnut for breakfast or not? If you haven't slept well, you're like 90% more likely to eat the doughnut or the croissant.”