You want to look slim and sexy again.
You're making another attempt to get that slim body back...
you know...
the one we can barely remember.
So you're on your new weight loss program or diet.
But it's just not fun...
and it's much harder to stay on than they promised! Diets and weight loss always seem to be such a struggle.
But they don't need to be...
I'll tell you about that in a minute.
There are lots of reasons that diets don't seem to work, major among them is the body's subconscious fear of starvation that holds onto the fat in case it's a famine coming on.
Another one is staying up late at night and not getting enough sleep.
You'd tend to think if you sleep less you'll burn more calories and lose more weight...
right? Not true! Lack of sleep attacks us in many different ways...
besides making us irritable and short tempered.
Without enough sleep, your muscle mass doesn't build as well as it should - and working out more doesn't seem to help.
And it's the muscles that burn the fat.
Then there's your cortisol levels which rise when you don't sleep enough.
As well as storing more fat around your organs higher cortisol levels also lead toinsulin insensitivity and diabetes.
Add in reduced Growth Hormone levels, a compromized immune system and low energy and I think you can see how lack of sleep can be sabotaging your fat burning efforts.
It's your carbohydrate cravings that are packing the weight on and keeping it on.
Highly processed carbs...
junk food...
are addictive.
They screw up the body's metabolism and land you in a state where losing weight is pretty well impossible.
The single most effective way I know for burning off that fat is to kill off our carbohydrate cravings so we're not driven to reach for food all the time.