Women who report less sleep tend to snack more, and eat outside of “normal” hours.

Lower tendency for eating during conventional eating hours and greater snack dominance over meals were also related to higher intakes of fat and sweets for energy and lower intakes of fruits and vegetables.

CONCLUSIONS: Disrupted eating patterns and diet of poor nutritional quality may exacerbate the development of obesity and metabolic diseases in habitual short and very long sleepers.

It is now pretty well established that sleep deprivation (for most, < 7 hrs/night) is associated with greater appetite, greater desire for unhealthy foods, predisposition to diabetes, and obesity.  Sleep is not a luxury!

(And turn off that TV at night.)