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are you finding that when you’re cutting your  carbs you’re still not able to lose weight and  

a lot of videos if you hit a plateau i tell you to  cut your carbs down right i also will tell you to  

eat less frequently do more fasting both of these  should work but if they don’t there’s usually two  

reasons for this one is there’s a problem with  your sleep and another one is that there’s a  

problem with this right here too much stress  and so i’m going to talk about the relationship  

between the sleep hormone melatonin as well as  the stress hormone cortisol in relationship to  

why you’re not losing weight so sleep produces a  hormone called melatonin melatonin comes in when  

it gets dark out and it helps induce  a deep wonderful restful sleep right  

and that’s when all the magic happens with  weight loss because you’re going to spike  

growth hormone and you’re going to wake up with  less weight but melatonin it inhibits insulin i  

don’t know if you know this but insulin is the key  hormone that blocks your ability to lose weight  

okay so if you take a look at melatonin inhibiting  insulin that would be a good thing right lowering  

insulin the body is saying hey it’s time to  sleep we don’t need to release insulin now right  

so you can start losing weight but if you’re  exposed to a blue light about i don’t know  

two or three hours before you go into  sleep and it’s you’re on your computer  

or you’re on your cell phone you’re getting all  this blue light that’s going to block insulin okay  

so insulin starts kicking in about two hours  before you go to sleep and so we don’t want  

to mess with that so it’s very very important not  to be around that blue light before you go to bed  

because what’s going to happen that is going to  block melatonin and now we’re going to actually  

have more insulin which is then going to affect  your weight so that’s one mechanism right there  

but also late night snacking okay let’s say for  example you’re a snacker it’s light at night  

and you eat something but guess what’s going to  happen this food especially if it’s carbohydrate  

is going to try to stimulate insulin but  insulin is being suppressed to a certain  

degree by melatonin so we’re not going to have  the help of insulin to regulate these blood sugars  

so your blood sugars are going to go up okay and  with more blood sugars being up you’re not going  

to lose weight so depending on the mechanism of  what disrupts this melatonin either blue light  

or eating that right there is going to inhibit  your ability to lose weight all right so that’s  

one mechanism and i have a lot of videos on  how to fix this and what to do about this  

and how to get rid of the cravings so you can  watch those down below but sleep is very very  

very important if you’re trying to lose weight  let’s talk about stress when you go through  

stress you stimulate this hormone called cortisol  another name for cortisol is a glucocorticoid  

gluco standing for glucose right it’s a glucose  hormone it releases glucose as quick energy  

for stress so if you’re trying to go to sleep at  night and you get this higher cortisol this quick  

glucose release for quick energy because your  body’s in some stress mode that’s going to affect  

your ability to lose weight because now we have  more sugar when you don’t even eat sugar your body  

is releasing the sugar because it’s increasing  gluconeogenesis in other words it’s making its  

own sugar from fat or protein so here you are you  don’t even need any carbs you’re lowering your  

carbs but the carbs are coming from a conversion  of your fat into carbs made by your liver  

caused by this darn hormone right here that’s the  mechanism for that also cortisol inhibits insulin  

so it allows the blood sugars to go up so we don’t  get the benefit of that blood sugar regulation  

when there’s high levels of cortisol and that  can also lead to more insulin resistance so  

stress especially chronic stress lack of sleep  are two very important factors to look at  

if you’re not losing weight but what i always like  to do is first make sure the carbs are low make  

sure you’re doing fasting longer okay and you can  always go to these two other factors right here  

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