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Reasons For Insomnia and Sleep Loss as a result from Restricting Foods - ED Recovery

Uncategorized Mar 09, 2020

What are the real reasons causing your insomnia?

Do you lay up at night, until 2 am, 4am, or even 5am, tossing and turning..

Googling “what’s causing my insomnia?!” “what foods are the worst for sleep?!” “why can’t I SLEEP?!” “what’s wrong with ME?!”

Then popping up in the morning either wide awake thinking about food intensely OR waking up completely groggy and foggy headed?

You then begin to blame the food again.. it must be the food, you say.

It’s always my diet that’s causing my insomnia.

This could be true if you’re having loads of caffeine or not eating a balanced diet of ALL macronutrients including carbs, sugar, fat and protein.. there’s more too it when we suffer from chronic yo-yo dieting, restrictive dieting (and yes I mean people who cut specific foods or food groups too!) as well as hopping on all these clean eating trendy diet crazes.

Some of my specific reasonings that contribute to insomnia that I have found through my experience and research include:
 

1. Malnutrition

2. Being at too low of a body weight of body fat % (even just 5-10lbs underweight) for our body structure (as a result of trying to look like models in magazines or fitness accounts on social media) 

 

Why?

From a biological perspective, looking at the migration theory, when our bodies are not efficiently nourished, sleep is not the top priority on the agenda.
When our body is hungry and deprived of calories, sleep is secondary to finding and eating food. Our body thinks the current environment is scarce of food from the energy deficit, and it needs to migrate and get to where the food is.
 
If we sleep, we won’t get to food as soon as possible and therefore, we won’t survive. People then wonder why they lie there all night, with extreme hunger thinking about food, yet not allowing themselves to get up and eat in fear they will gain weight or break their diet.
 
Once people enter a nutritional rehabilitation recovery period, they quit restricting their food intake and instead eat sufficiently, the body feels it is in a safe and food abundant environment, the individuals find they are able to sleep again.
 
Once the body exits malnourishment and energy deficit, they find themselves beating the insomnia they once suffered with, for years.
 
This was not only my experience, but my clients whom I work with as well as the men in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, according to the Migration Theory and more.
 

» If you want to learn more on how to

  • heal a lowered metabolism,
  • beat the insomnia,
  • get your body out of starvation mode as well
  • as more on the Migration Theory, Evolutionary Biology and the Minnesota Starvation Experiment and how they pertain to disordered eating and the physical and mental malfunctions we face from restricting…

Xx 

Kayla Rose

Holistic Nutritionist

P.S. I’m hosting a free masterclass specifically for people who want to stop feeling obsessed around food and truly heal their metabolism and you’re invited! Click here to sign up.

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