Lost 80 lbs by fixing my insulin. Ten years later, still here.Each week I share the science (and the 7 hacks) behind insulin-friendly weight loss. No calorie counting, no hunger, no willpower battles. Download the blueprint here.
The dawn phenomenon (and why breakfast can sabotage you)
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Hi Reader, If your weight won't move, the problem usually isn't willpower. It isn't even calories. It's a hormone called insulin. In endocrinology, insulin tends to be described as the "manager" of your metabolism. When it's elevated, the body is signaled to store. Fat breakdown (lipolysis) is suppressed. Sugar burning slows. You can be eating less and exercising more, and the body may still refuse to touch its fat stores, because the lock is on. That's the part nobody mentioned to me for fifteen years. I counted calories. I added longer workouts. I'd drop a few pounds, plateau, then watch it all come back. What the research actually suggests is that cutting calories while insulin stays high tends to signal the body to slow its metabolism rather than release fat. The proof is well documented. 2016 study in the journal Obesity followed contestants from The Biggest Loser. Six years after the show, their resting metabolisms had slowed by roughly 500 calories per day below what would be predicted for their size. They had to eat 500 fewer calories just to maintain weight. Most regained what they lost. That isn't a willpower problem. That's a metabolic one. Here's where it gets interesting. There's a window each morning that endocrinologists call the "dawn phenomenon." Cortisol surges to wake you up, and it pulls insulin up with it. So eating cereal or toast at 7 a.m. may be the worst possible time to flood your system with refined carbs. You're stacking insulin on top of insulin, then wondering why you're hungry again by ten. A small shift that worked for me: delay breakfast by two hours. Let cortisol come down. Let insulin settle. The body may switch itself into fat-burning mode without you doing anything else. Get my copy of Fix Your Insulin → That's one of seven hacks in the book. I wrote Fix Your Insulin after losing 80 lbs and keeping it off for over a decade. No counting. No starving. Just understanding the hormone that was running the show the whole time. It's $2.99 on Amazon right now. Karl P.S. The cereal aisle is the most expensive nine feet of grocery store in America. Once you see why, you can't unsee it. |
FIX YOUR INSULIN
Lost 80 lbs by fixing my insulin. Ten years later, still here.Each week I share the science (and the 7 hacks) behind insulin-friendly weight loss. No calorie counting, no hunger, no willpower battles. Download the blueprint here.
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