Engage with your circadian rhythms and lose weight while you sleep.
Everyone knows that weight loss is about what you eat and what you don’t eat. But there’s another critical element to consider. Losing weight is also about aligning your eating and sleeping habits with your internal biological clock. Find out how to set this clock to maximum fat-burning mode.
Buried deep within your brain is an ancient biological clock, one that functions with extraordinary, near 24-hour precision. Recognising this clock (aka the circadian rhythm) is your weight loss superpower.
There is a reason why most people have little or no appetite on waking: the human body clock and the production of cortisol. Cortisol is an adrenal hormone produced cyclically: levels start to rise between 3 am and 6 am, and within thirty to forty minutes after waking, most people…
What makes you want to eat? However complex your motivations may seem, the hunger game is essentially a game of hormones. Don’t turn it into a power struggle — you can learn how to trigger or suppress the hormones involved in the desire to eat, and stay in control of…
Stress is bad for your mental health. It’s not great for your heart or immune health, either. Furthermore — and just to rub salt into your wounds — it can also make you fat. But the consequences of stress are not inevitable: once you understand what’s going on, you can…
