Motivation To Lose Weight | Craving Carbs Like Crazy | Day 53

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Do you find yourself mysteriously craving carbs like crazy in the evening?

It’s that witching hour between 8:30pm and 10:30pm and you find yourself standing in front of the pantry desperately hoping that a Cookie Jar will magically manifest itself or a Reese’s Pieces might fall out of the rack of herbs and spices.

But if you heeded my advice you threw all that rubbish away, so no amount of wishing and wanting is going to make it materialize anyway.

So do you want to know how to avoid craving carbs like crazy?

You’re not going to believe me when I tell you, because it’s so ridiculously simple. Actually all of this is ridiculously simple if you allow yourself to believe it to be so.

The way to avoid craving carbs like crazy is …

go to bed before midnight, and get up with the sun.

Say again?

Allow me to explain. There are two hormones involved here and I call them the “Two Tony’s.” Their correct names are serotonin and melatonin.

Serotonin is your happy hormone and melatonin is your sleepy hormone and they work like a see-saw. As one goes up the other one goes down. And if you interrupt the see-saw you’re going to get grumpy and start craving carbs because you want to FEEL good again.

This is how it works. When you wake in the morning, the sun hits the retinas in your eyes and you experience a surge in your serotonin levels.

Your elevated serotonin levels carry you through the day. Then as the sun goes down, so too do your serotonin levels. And it’s this gradual drop in serotonin that gets you craving carbs in order to ‘make you feel good.’

Melatonin is taking over and is trying to get you to wind down and go to sleep. 

The way to avoid craving carbs (which give you energy) is to recognize melatonin’s message to send you to sleep before midnight, therefore getting you up again with a surge in serotonin in the morning to give you momentum through the day.

If you fight this natural see-saw and give in to craving carbs, and stay up after midnight you’re interrupting the natural flow of melatonin through your body. You’ll wake up feeling like you’ve had a huge night on the town because you’ll still have melatonin in your system, need five cups of coffee to get you going and you’ll be a step behind all day because you didn’t get that hit of serotonin from the early morning sun!

So the super simple thing to do to avoid craving carbs like crazy, is get to bed before midnight, get up as early as you can, get some sunbeams on your face and skip through the day like Daisy Duke! Seriously, I told you it was simple.

And it’s ALL simple. Losing weight is about following nature. We’ve just got to get all of this rubbish out of our heads. Stop counting, stop weighing, stop measuring – just get on with living naturally. All the rest will take care of itself. I promise.

Good luck on your journey.

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