Conquering Your Hunger Hormone

This post is brought to you by our sponsor, “Always Eat After 7 PM”. The opinions expressed below are my own.

For the last 4 weeks, I’ve been trying out intermittent fasting, which I learned all about from a new book called Always Eat After 7pm: The Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight by Joel Marion, a best-selling author and nutritionist. There are many health benefits of intermittent fasting, one of the most known benefits is weight loss. When I embarked on this trial of intermittent fasting, my short-term goal was to have more energy in the mornings so that I could get more work done during the day. But my long-term goal was to improve my overall health as a way to prevent developing lifestyle diseases like heart disease, which is what led my mother to an early death.

After just one month of following the Always Eat After 7pm program and practicing intermittent fasting, I’m happy with the results that I’ve seen so far like better sleep at night and more energy in the day. Like I mentioned in my last post, physical changes weren’t a goal of mine when I started this plan, I have noticed that my body is more toned and firm. I’m loving the way my body looks and most importantly, I’m loving the way my body feels!

Hunger Hormone

One of my biggest takeaways from the book was learning how to control my hunger in a healthy way, which is what most diet plans fail to teach.

Have you ever had the feeling of nagging, persistent hunger that refuses to go away?

You know, that feeling where your stomach won’t stop growling when you’re in the middle of a meeting or while you’re trying to go to sleep? It used to happen to me all the time.

That annoying feeling is the result of ghrelin. Intermittent fasting helps regulate ghrelin, which is known as the “Hunger Hormone”. Intermittent fasting helps ghrelin levels decline even if you haven’t eaten anything. Ghrelin levels spike when you’re not eating and drop after you’ve had a meal. Intermittent fasting helps ghrelin levels decline even if you haven’t eaten anything. In other words, intermittent fasting helps you control your hunger properly by keeping your ghrelin levels low so that you don’t feel hungry all the time.

Metabolism is also an important component of having a healthy weight. Ketosis is your body’s natural metabolic state. The most challenging times to curb hunger are just before bed and in the morning. By following the Always Eat After 7pm program, you have the most willpower to stay on the diet because you are eating during the hours when you are most hungry. This also puts you into intermittent fasting which increases testosterone and your metabolism, while putting you into ketosis.

Intuitive eating, controlling hunger, and controlling my metabolism are some of the most helpful things I’ve learned from the book.

It’s about what you eat and when you eat

The Always Eat After 7pm plan teaches you how to have a healthy relationship with food. I used to always feel guilty about my love of carbs. I’ve never been able to or interested in going on low-carb diets like many women do when trying to control their weight. From this book, I learned a lot about how carbs are critical for our well-being. Carbs have a reputation and have been wrongfully blamed for weight gain, but there are so many benefits of eating “super carbs”, like lentils, oats, and whole grain pasta, such as having more energy and feeling full for a long time.

The book also discusses the importance of timing meals. Based on surprising science, Always Eat After 7pm debunks popular diet myths, like “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”, and offers an easy-to-follow meal plan that accelerates fat-burning and allows you to indulge in your most intense food cravings: Eating the majority of your calories at night. When you’re active, your body burns mainly carbohydrates and muscle glycogen for energy. By eating carbs at night, you allow your body to use them to restore glycogen for energy the next day and provide your body with the glucose it needs to regulate your blood sugar levels during sleep.

So feel free to indulge if you even get the urge to eat a bowl of rice, beans, or sweet potatoes late at night. I certainly do!

Continuing to Follow Intermittent Fasting

I will continue following this plan because doing so really has been effortless. Always Eat After 7pm encourages me to eat the food that I want to eat and eat as much as I want to eat. The recipes in the book are easy to follow and the book equips you with other tools for success, like the Fat Burning Morning Rituals. Two of the simplest 3-Minute Fat-Burning Morning Rituals in the book are lemon water, which is a glass of water mixed with the juice of one half of a lemon, and the mint citrus water, which is a refreshing alternative to drinking plain water. This drink provides all the benefits of regular drinking water, which supports weight loss, digestive health, physical performance, and cognitive function. I find myself doing the Fat-Burning Morning Rituals throughout the day!

I feel fully prepared to continue practicing intermittent fasting and eating nutritious meals because the book tells me exactly how to do so. There’s an entire section of the book dedicated to teaching you how to implement the plan in your life for the long run. There are still several recipes in the book that I haven’t made and I’m super excited to try them!

Always Eat After 7pm is the Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight by Joel Marion is now available to purchase.

If you haven’t already, go get your copy of the book today and hit me up to share your results!

This post is brought to you by our sponsor, “Always Eat After 7 PM”. The opinions expressed below are my own.