How Cortisol Creates the Menopausal Muffin Top!

There is a common sequence that leads to weight gain once we eat sugar and become addicted to it.

1. Sugar spikes Cortisol overnight while we are in bed
2. If Cortisol spikes overnight- we don’t sleep well, which makes us crave sugary/high foods the next day to increase our energy
3. Cortisol makes our body gain weight differently and it is often that “hard to lose” type of weight.
4. Cortisol creates the Menopausal “muffin top” around the stomach area

The roller coaster and emotional eating around this cycle manifests itself in the following outcomes and realizations.

• That Muffin top you’re experiencing won’t go away without solving the hormonal issues. With Cortisol spiking overnight, it interrupts our sleep.
• Poor quality of sleep starts to become the norm (waking up multiple times) and causes you to become easily agitated the next day. You’re less able to manage stress and this results in feeling tired and dragged down by unwanted pounds.
• The quickest but NOT easiest solution is cutting out food. Food and beverages like pop, juice, alcohol, cakes, breads, chips, popcorn, and even too much fruit can be harmful.  Cutting out sugars will naturally lower cortisol and likely release weight easier, but maybe not to the degree you want. So again, we advise taking this to the next step or hormonal treatment.
• The overall problem is that this eating has become a habit and has resulted from years of the bad eating cycles.  Cutting out these foods can feel like deprivation, but really - it’s just detoxing your body from sugars. Eventually you will break the cycle and not crave sugars any longer.

The Avita Saliva Hormone Test can show how off balance Cortisol and other hormones are. With this information, a customized solution can be created just for you that helps balance these hormones to get you jump started while you’re working on reducing sugars.  

So if you have 100lbs or more, or you just need to get rid of that 20lbs that seems to be all around your waist, click the link below to have a home saliva test kit sent to you.  This will give you the answers to that question “why can’t I lose weight” as well as a plan to balance your hormones, lower cortisol levels, release weight, sleep better and get back on track to a healthier happier life.