Have you ever heard of the "last meal phenomenon?" Nor had we! But it sure explains a lot of things. Listen to this (but be warned: once you know you can't "un-know!")

There's an idea out there, that what you ate at your last meal, your previous meal, so whatever the meal was before, it doesn't matter if it was dinner and then breakfast the next day... So whatever you ate for meal one, sets you up biologically for meal two, and they've done studies about this...

If you eat crap at meal two, okay, whatever time that is, the next day, when you get ready to have meal one again, you've set yourself up for a higher rate of failure unless you're thinking ahead and being smart. Lots of people don't realize this. They eat a meal one - they have a bagel. Well, now you've spiked your blood sugar, you've fed the weak cells in your body, cheap and easy glucose. So what's happening now is your body has gotten what it needs. 

Your weak cells have gotten what they need. They don't have to die off and you make new mitochondria. They've been able to access cheap and easy. It's like keeping a dead and dying thing on life support. So now you've fed the crap cells that don't work very well for you and that are aging you. So you've fed all those, you've set your blood sugar up for what we call the last meal phenomenon. 

So now meal two runs around and you're hungry earlier, because you ate crap food, you didn't need a good protein, you didn't have any good source of fat, you ate a bunch of junk carbs and then the next thing you did was so your blood sugar’s whacky and now those mitochondria are, and all those cells in your body that are kind of junky anyway, are like, “Ooh, pizza sounds good.” You normally wouldn’t do that, but because you ate the other, it sets you up. And this is how people fall off the Code Red wagon and gain 50-60 pounds. They just keep that cycle going over and over and over and they don't even realize they're doing it.

So there you are… You’ve been warned… That seemingly harmless one-off or occasional giving in to temptation could send you hurtling on a downward spiral. But let’s be clear on this: it is not you being a bad person. It's the chemicals that are put into those foods that make them highly addictive. So the whole point is, make choices that help you avoid the last meal phenomenon. And that’s the idea I and Cari are going to elaborate on in this episode. Stay tuned. 

Key Points of Discussion

• How the last meal phenomenon gets you off the Code Red wagon (6:02)
• I’m a recovering binge eater, and the “phenomenon” makes sense to me (8:15)
• You need to release the shame from that, because your brain has been hijacked (10:37)
• If you have an addicted customer, you have a customer for life (11:17)
• Make a choice that is gonna set you up for success (12:36)
• Success begets success. Yes, good decisions beget good decisions (14:38)
• Stay hydrated, keep your sleep up - that’ll help you make better choices (16:36)
• Setting yourself up for success by planning for the week ahead (18:55)
• Reach out to the Code Red community when you’re falling behind (19:35)
• Success, in general, is a compilation of one good day after another (22:45)
• “Failing forward” and learning from mistakes (24:41)
• As consumers, you vote with your dollar (29:22)
• Don't forget 10poundtakedown.com - that's where you get started (30:23)

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