01/26/2024
Are you a Breakfast OR No Breakfast (aka fasting)?
Do you wake up and feel you just can’t eat?
Might be a sign that your
- Metabolism is slow.
- Blood sugar imbalances.
- Increased stress hormone levels (stress & anxiety).
- Poor thyroid function.
- Suppressed liver function.
You see, our bodies have 2 power supplies:
Energy from food is the main power supply.
Energy from yourself (fat, muscle, bone, organs) is the backup power supply.
🍊 Your body has been fasting for 10, 12, hours, you should be hungry.
🍊 A healthy liver can hold enough stored glucose (glycogen) for about 8-10 hours until it runs out of energy. The body will send out a signal that it needs more fuel, using cortisol to get the energy from the backup power supply because it doesn’t have the food.
🍊Some of it will come from the fat but a lot will come from your tissues, your beautiful MUSCLES. Oh, your muscles that you work so hard to get.
👉Don’t rely on your backup power supply!
🍊If your appetite is non-existent in the morning, you can pretty much say that you have been using cortisol to get energy from your muscles.
🍊Fortunately, breakfast is one of the easiest ways to pull yourself off that “stress” merry-go-round where you constantly run to the backup power supply, stealing from your body and “eating yourself” for energy.
🍊So have a bedtime snack (fat, protein & carbs) to make your liver happy and breakfast to get you going on energy from food and NOT stress.
🍊A bedtime snack can be:
Greek yogurt + berries
Real Icecream with collagen
Bone broth
Berries with fresh whip cream (not Reddi whip nonsense) and collagen
Hot cacao (not Hershey’s)
🍊And even though you may not have an appetite in the morning, try to eat something within 30-60 minutes of waking to provide your body with fuel from food. Eventually, hunger will come back.
🍊Start small and work yourself up... start with blending OJ and collagen, then work yourself up to other nutrients dense rich foods.
DO YOU BREAKFAST?
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