You must have heard this often – have a light dinner to lose weight. But how to make dinner light? Well, by eating something wholesome in the evening. This is the make or break meal, it decides whether you will have long-lasting fitness or whether it will fizzle out in the next couple of weeks. This is the Week 4 Fitness guideline — eat a wholesome meal between 4 and 6 pm.
Why??
Our hormone cortisol follows a natural cycle; it rises in the morning, allowing you to start fresh, clear bowels, and drops in the evening, to allow for restful sleep in the night. When we don’t eat anything in the evening or kill our appetite with chai or coffee, our body works at producing more cortisol instead of reducing it. This leads to: overeating at dinner; poor sleep; slow digestion; PCOD/thyroid issues; Insulin insensitivity. So make sure you eat between 4 and 6 pm – be it a handful of groundnuts or chana (gram) ; jaggery, ghee and chapati (if you stay active and work away from home); even chaat/samosa, but only once a week! You will soon see dinner quantities naturally drop over the next 4-5 days.
Figure out what the core cause is
Often emotional eating and boredom eating can get caught up in one another, as can self sabotaging and sugar cravings. Check in with yourself to see what’s really behind that snacking, and yes, my Mindset Makeover Course would help you with that!
It can also be helpful to identify the situation or the habit of when the snacking is taking place, as changing it can help. For example, I used to snack like crazy on a Saturday night, usually when James was out with his friends and I was home alone. When that happens now, I make specific plans to do something, either out or at home, that does not involve being sat in front of a screen so that I don’t slip into that bored state and go back to snacking.
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