Okay so today we are going to be talking about stress and cortisol, and they go hand in hand.

I want you ladies to understand what cortisol is and why that hormone matters in the whole scheme of things.

Here's the thing every hormone matters in some way and they all communicate and intertwine with each other.  If one hormone is off it throws everything else off.

So it's not just “oh well I have high estrogen or I have low progesterone”  -- it's a domino effect and stress and cortisol play a huge role in our hormones, our weight, our energy, our everything, and it took me way too many years to realize this.

I would honestly say within the last two to three years I started understanding the HUGE role that stress played within my body.

Beforehand I knew my cortisol was lopsided and completely out of whack but I didn't get that the daily choices I made affected and played a role in my cortisol levels and then everything else.

For me, weight issues have been a huge battle since my hormones decided to do their own thing 14 years ago due to 3 months of using Birth Control.

Cortisol matters.

When your body is already in a stressed state, and your body is not having that time to recharge and to heal you then go into that fight or flight mode.

So our body is either going to be in the parasympathetic mode which is the rest and digest or it's going to be in the fight-or-flight mode.  Which it is just that,  your body thinks it is going to be chased by a bear or it is going into famine and so why would we want to digest food when we don't know when we're going to be fed again?

I will say my body has come so far and so I am very passionate for women to understand that these small things you can do and tweak matter and add up with your hormone health

All right so we mentioned the parasympathetic mode, when your body is in the parasympathetic mode it is in the rest and digest mode. It is saying I am at rest, I am safe and I can digest this food because we are not going into “I don't know when my person is gonna feed me again” mode.

For me, the biggest thing that perpetuated my hormone/cortisol issues over the last 14 years is that I have overworked myself in the gym and then I withheld food with the latest diet.  

The whole calories in calories out the whole mentality of is NOT true or good for overall health and sustainability.

I was determined to get this weight off that was desperately holding on to because of all the hormone imbalance that was going on inside my body.

I was fighting myself for years. I’m only two years into this new mindset of “it's okay to rest” and that sometimes can be more helpful than a workout.

I am a person that loves a good workout, I love a good sweat, I love lifting weights, and used to be the biggest gym rat.

I was in school to be a personal trainer, I wanted that life, I loved being in shape.

I still love muscle, feeling strong and capable.  I have had to teach myself that it is okay to take a couple of days off and let my body heal and DO IT'S THING.

My body was like “okay I don't know what you're doing but  this isn't working for us” and it

shut down on me completely.

All right so cortisol, what the heck is cortisol?

Cortisol is your like get up and go hormone.

When you wake up in the morning you should have your cortisol at the highest and then throughout the day, it should slowly decrease.

Then your melatonin hormone overtakes and that is what makes you sleepy and tired at night.

Cortisol plays a huge role and so overworking your body for a long period of time spikes your cortisol for way too long.  A  HITT workout can be helpful to move your body because it's a very short amount of time that you are pumping out cortisol and then it can re-regulate your cortisol.

I did the opposite for years and had no clue why I couldn’t lose weight.

If any of this resonates with you, I just ask that you heed what I say even a little bit because

I wish I had someone to say “hey maybe you should think about this”. 

There are small simple things that you can do throughout your day. 

Small tweaks in your day guys that you can do to start regulating your stress hormones and your cortisol and literally teaching it that it is safe.

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