This post is brought to you by our sponsor, “Always Eat After 7 PM”. The opinions expressed below are 100% my own.
If you’ve been following my postpartum weight loss journey, you know that I’ve recently started prioritizing healthy eating and increasing my energy while using a new diet plan.
I was recently offered the opportunity to review an advance copy of “Always Eat After 7 PM: The Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight” by Joel Marion. Based on surprising science, Always Eat After 7 PM debunks popular diet myths and offers an easy-to-follow diet that accelerates fat-burning and allows you to indulge in your most intense food cravings: Eating the majority of your calories at night.
Today I want to continue to share more about the author Joel Marion and the surprising science behind the weight loss plan chronicled in Always Eat After 7PM by sharing a few anecdotes about the program.
Joel was inspired to write the book after seeing 2 huge misconceptions in the diet world that he felt needed to be rectified.
The first misconception is that eating late at night is counterproductive to weight loss. Science shows that this is NOT true and Joel addresses that in the book: “Your body follows a circadian rhythm—an internal metabolic clock—in which hormone levels fluctuate throughout the day. Cortisol is one of these hormones. Under normal circumstances, it is naturally elevated in the morning to get you alert and ready to go. Over the course of the day, it naturally falls. As cortisol drops, the sleep hormones, melatonin and serotonin, rise. They, along with growth hormones, support nightly healing and repair, helping us look and feel younger.”
The second misconception is that you can’t eat large portions of food, even if that satisfies your natural hunger instinct. Joel addresses that here, encouraging plan followers to adjust HOW and WHAT they are eating to be properly satiated: “In general, healthy fats can also help increase feelings of fullness and satisfaction because they regulate appetite through a number of mechanisms, including the release of appetite hormones. What’s more, combining fat with fiber has been shown to further increase the satiating potential of fat. The satiating power of fats is often one explanation offered to describe why some weight loss trials have shown that low-carbohydrate (and higher-fat) diets tend to lead to greater weight loss than low-fat diets.”
For me, the above conclusions are a complete 180° turn from the unsustainable ways I have dieted in the past. I am a night owl, and having to eat an early dinner always left me feeling SO hungry in the middle of the night – especially when I get most of my work for my blog done around midnight. Knowing now that I can still burn fat and shed pounds eating later in the day is encouraging. I can’t wait to continue to follow this plan and update you on my progress!
To answer more questions you may have, here is an excerpt of an interview with Joel about the reason behind creating this program and writing this book:
Q1: What inspired you to write the book?
After authoring 6 best selling books it was glaringly obvious there were 2 huge misconceptions about dieting that needed to be exposed. The first is that you can’t eat late at night or before bed, which science now shows is NOT true. And second, you can’t eat large portions that satisfy your natural instinct. This book solves both these problems by providing an evidence-based, enjoyable approach to dieting that can be used by any person to quickly achieve their weight loss goals.
Q2: How long did it take for you to develop the diet?
It actually took several years of researching for me to discover the real science of eating late night. After a few years of tweaking and refining, I finally came up with a rapid fat loss solution that overcomes all the pitfalls of traditional diets.
Q3: What was the most surprising discovery when you were researching scientific data for the diet?
That almost everything my college education and certifications taught me was NOT grounded in published scientific research.
Q4: You’re a six-time best selling author, what is different about this book compared to your others?
Although many of the concepts are similar, the biggest difference is that you don’t have to deprive yourself of your favorite foods. You don’t have to deal with the burden of eating every few hours. And you don’t have to skip the carbs at dinnertime or avoid eating before bed.
Q5: How difficult is the Always Eat After 7 PM plan to follow?
It’s not. And that’s exactly why I wrote the book. While any diet is never truly easy, it can be more enjoyable and much easier to adhere to when you understand how Always Eat After 7pm works because it caters to our bodies natural instincts.
Q6: If you had to describe yourself in three words, what would they be?
Born To Impact
Always Eat After 7 PM: 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.
Learn more about the book and how to purchase here: http://bit.ly/390FBDm
This post is brought to you by our sponsor, “Always Eat After 7 PM”. The opinions expressed are 100% my own.
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