Eat Regular Meals

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Everyone knows the joke about falling asleep after a big Thanksgiving meal. Some people blame it on tryptophan found in turkey. While this may be somewhat accurate, the real reason you get tired after a Thanksgiving meal is because you overate.

When you eat a meal, your body responds by using around 70% of your systemic energy to digest your food. So, when you eat too much food, your body has to direct more energy to your digestion and you have less energy available in your brain and muscles.

✔️ Start Eating regular meals, even during the holidays

Eating regular meals helps with energy, concentration, portion control, fat-burning, and disease prevention. Fasting is a popular and useful health approach. However, skipping a meal without a plan or strategy, and then binging on high-carb foods is not supportive of long term health. 

🛑 Stop Overeating 

“Social overeating” occurs when you eat to celebrate or just because everyone else is eating. Overeating leads to unstable blood sugar due to excess insulin. High insulin also triggers the release of tryptophan which converts into melatonin. Hence the reason you feel sleepy after overeating.

Moving the needle by small increments yields large results over time.✔️ Start supporting your life with foundational healthy habits and 🛑 stop sabotaging yourself.

Carly Neubert, BA, NC