Sleep is one the greatest pillars of overall health and certainly can have an effect on your fat loss goals. The more sleep you get, the more energy you are going to have the next day and therefore the harder and longer you are going to be able to work out and that means you can burn more calories.
Grain Brain by David Perlmutter is an eye-opening book that helped me understand how what we eat can impact immensely our mental well-being in the long run. This book exposes a hard-hitting truth about a lifetime consumption of grains, sugar and other damaging carbohydrates which have been so ingrained in our culture and diets.