Most likely, it is intended for you. I have seen major changes in the development and seen amazing results from different clients simply by “sneaking” in a good and healthy snack here and there. It is as if many pieces automatically start to fall into place when you get this into a good and healthy routine.

I take one of my clients who is a middle-aged man and fully healthy but has a few kilos overweight as an example. He starts work at 07:00, eats a steady breakfast around 06:00, takes his coffee break at 09:15 and then lunch at 11:30. Nothing uncommon with that and this is a completely normal routine for many of you. The coffee break consists of two black cups of coffee and the lunch is decided when he and his colleagues check out from work to take their well-deserved lunch break. It will be a lunch buffet in 9 cases out of 10. Preferably Thai food with an “open” buffet, he tells me. There is nothing wrong with that and I really think you should get this with lunch breaks out, during the working days, to work no matter what goal you have and what kind of journey you are on. It is extremely important to get this break from work and time to socialize with colleagues so that the lifestylechange can work in long term. The problem is rarely the place they go to, but rather the huge hunger the client has when he goes uneaten from 06:30 to 11:30. Or well yes, two black large cups of coffee lie and snuggle in his system, which he drank during the coffee break. That does not help much with either balancing blood sugar levels or hunger.

I took a closer look at what happens during the lunch break for my client. For me, it is not enough just to hear “I get a little tired and hungry before lunch”. I need to know when, how and then determine why. The energy and mood used to drop before lunch and the focus on work dropped drastically. He told me that he actually sometimes counted down the minutes until the clock struck 11:30 and it was time for lunch. Talk about losing focus when hunger strikes and blood sugar levels drops. Surely you understand what happens after arriving at the wonderful buffet? It is not one portion that goes down… not two… but three large portions of food where he has to balance the plate each time so that nothing slides off the edge of the plate. He exhales contentedly when he finishes lunch and then moves on, grabs his coffee and sees some strange type of dessert that looks like something made from green Fairy detergent that floats in what appears to be some kind of milk. You who have been to Thai Buffer know what I’m talking about. Two bowls of that also slide down. He rolls back to the office, only has time to log on to the computer again and work for a while when the fatigue strikes. Blood sugar peaks and the pancreas goes on full machine releasing insulin to take care of it. When the insulin catches up, the blood sugar drops. The higher the peak of blood sugar levels, which results in greater release of insulin, the steeper the downward curve goes as it drops. If you go up a steep roller coaster, it also usually goes very fast down again. That is the reason why I avoid the roller coasters. Of course, you need to take into account what he chooses to eat at lunch and how blood sugar levels are triggered, but you all know what Thai buffet means.

It has been shown that the insulin levels in healthy people, who do not have diabetes or other diseases with impaired function to regulate blood sugar , does not rise above ~ 8 mmol / l after a meal, regardless of how much sugar / carbohydrates you have eaten that raises blood sugar. Therefore, we cannot blame everything on blood sugar, blood sugar levels and insulin secretion. Another aspect we can review is that a large meal puts greater demands on the digestive process. More blood will flow around the stomach and intestines to help with a more demanding digestive process. This can often be a reason why many people get a dip after a larger meal.

The usual circadian rhythm in humans is also important when we talk about “post-lunch-dip”. It is common for the body to enter a phase where sleep-promoting hormone may increase in the afternoon and you then do not feel as focused and energetic as a few hours earlier.