This is why you lose weight on vacation even when you eat more and exercise less! #hormonehealth

Drop a ❤️ below if you’re headed on vacation soon!

Have you experienced the vacation weight loss phenomena?

It’s real! You eat a lot more, you exercise a lot less yet you come home and your clothes fit better.

How can this be???

Well first, if you follow me, you hopefully know that eating more and exercising less is my secret for body positivity.

Second, vacation usually means LESS STRESS. Less stress=less cortisol aka the stress hormone.

When cortisol levels are consistently high, it can:
???? increase hunger
????Increase cravings for sugar
????increase belly fat
????reduce your ability to burn fat.

When we go on vacation, often times, our stress levels plummet and so do our cortisol levels! This allows your body a chance to rev up its fat burning potential.

In addition, less exercise gives your body and muscles a chance to rest which is so important when it comes to build lean, metabolism boosting muscle!

And lastly, you are more likely to eat intuitively on vacation meaning you stop eating when you’re full and you eat when you’re hungry! Many of my clients come to me after years of restrictive dieting and aren’t used to actually listening to their body’s hunger cues so vacation means eating more which combined with rest and less cortisol often leads to more calories their body has needed for weeks/months/years and allows their thyroid and metabolism to function optimally!

So enjoy that vacation! Give yourself grace.