360° Motherhood Evolution

Stop Feeling Tired!

The main cause of lethargy

As this body is just a machine, we can optimize it to feel better and eliminate the main cause of fatigue and lethargy - Eating habits.
I knoooow, nutrition is a very overused topic nowadays but let’s talk about it from the point of view of being a mother that needs energy to keep up with her kids.
How we eat directly affects how we feel. 
This machinery was primarily build for movement, so why does it not want to move? Straightforward answer: it’s not happy.
How do we make it happy? Food, movement and sex. 

Food

It matters what type of food we feed it. If the body looses to much time with processing all the weird combinations that it does not know how to bypass, store or transform into energy, it will suffer by giving its available energy (which is low-quality) on digestion and trigger all sorts of alarms. Thus the feeling bad, tired, and even bloating. All these tell you…or are trying to tell you but you are not listening to the voice of your body, that it’s bad. Did you ever live in a well taken care of machine?

Energy levels are a direct reflection of food quality because nutritional value determines energy quality. Processed foods have low nutritional value, meaning that it’s not real food for the body.

How should we eat as mothers?

It depends on the cycle phase you are in. As women, we have different nutrition needs every week. When we’re at ovulation, we naturally have more energy and our hunger drops. We feel good and prone to activities and new ideas. It comes naturally to intermittent fast, so 2 low carb full protein meals a day are perfect, with a high protein snack. This keeps your levels of energy steady throughout the day. 

In the week before your period you should go strong with protein and add ingredients on the higher spectrum of vegetable carb. 3 meals a day should cover it. This will eliminate cravings, thus the horrid drops of energy levels. No fasting whatsoever in this timeframe.

Keep in mind, that as long as you eat whole-foods, and prioritize protein, you can eat as much as it fits, but stoping at the first signal of the body that it had enough (train to notice this signal immediately). Lose the beliefs that it’s a shame to leave on the plate only 2 spoons or other programming like that. Choose the beliefs that are in your favor and disregard or change the other ones. Read Aware Life Design to understand this concept better.

Stay away from sugar and highly processed foods like bread, pasta, etc. 

Sugar and empty carbs increase your energy for a moment then you drop into hunger, lethargy, frustration, depression. This is what leads to most conflicts throughout the day!! If you’re not ok, then how can you manage life so that it feels easy and guilt free? If your body is not functioning properly how can you take good decisions you are proud of and don’t ruin your kids and make you feel that your life is a disaster every day?

Controlling what you eat is the first step

Have a look at the Nutrition module in the I’m Getting My Body Back or 360ME pack and just try it for a week. Eat according to your cycle phase as indicated in the course, with the ingredients there, and observe how much it improves your capacity of being better. Managing conflicts will be easier because you can be more present in the body, sleepiness in the middle of the day does not exist anymore, anger and reaction management will be easier.
Do you deserve a good, functional body? Does your child deserve a better mother? Does your partner deserve a soulmate that can be trusted to manage by herself all day?

Movement

The body adapts very quickly at anything you do with it.
Sitting all day long? It’s an ace at this and craves it.
2000 steps around the house every day? Easy.
Picking up your babies? No worries. It has adapted to the weight.
It’s still not happy, it is not used for what it was built for.
Insert some type of movement in your day like walking more than 5000 steps a day, or a home workout. You can start with 5 min, so your body can adapt to it, and increasing it in time.


It does not really matter what type of movement you choose, just do it. You will for sure find something that agrees with you. Whether it’s skipping, running in the park or indoors on a treadmill, elliptical machine, HIIT, or going to the gym, swimming or biking. The list goes on and on. You can do all and your body adapts.


Sure, the transition feels like your body is against it, but after a few tries it adapts and it will thank you with feeling good hormones, increasing your energy and giving you a clearer mind.
Take note that even after years and years of working out, with just a few days break, your body has already adapted to sitting and the choice of moving never gets easier.

Sex

Your body is mainly built to reproduce for a larger window in your life and this shall not be disregarded as it affects your overall well-being.

Sadness and spite for inexistent or stupid reasons, but also fatigue are usually the way that your body tries to communicate with you that it needs some hormones regulated.


Take into account your cycle and notice your pattern but here is a guide: we start counting from day 1 the first day of the period. The first week you become interested and can have sex even during your cycle (the period naturally takes a break when aroused) as the interest for your man starts to increase. I find it crucial to have sex this week as it marks the interest for the rest of the month. During the second week, there is the peak interest you are going to have for the month.
After the 18th day it goes downward in a bad mood so you’re not interested at all anymore, but it is crucial to do it as it stabilizes you very well. Il’ll stop here but let me know in the chat box or drop an e-mail if you would like to know more on not only optimize yourself but how to take care of the needs of your man to help him propel to his highest timeline.

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