Sleep is everything

Sleep when you're dead, right? Wrong.

Sleep is probably the best kept secret in the weightloss „industry”. What I’m writing now can change your life in all its aspects. Pour yourself some coffee and find out why I love sleep.

✅ NIGHT OWL

I usually wake up on my own between 4:45 and 5:45 because I go to sleep between 21:30 and 22:30.

As soon as I open my eyes I can hardly wait to get out of bed make a jug of coffee and start writing.

I usually write a draft of the article before I go to sleep and I have it ready in the morning. I write best immediately after I wake up, usually in the 5 AM to 7 AM interval.

But I wasn’t always like this. I was going to sleep late since forever. Ever since I was in elementary school and also when I was in highschool, university and when I became an employee. Until 2013, when everything changed.

During my highschool and university years I used to study at night. That’s when I thought I did my best studying.

That was my identity: someone who studies at night. A Night Owl, as they say.

✅ I GOT LUCKY I GOT KIDS

It all went down like this until my kids were born. That’s when I realized that if I don’t go to bed along with them at 8.30 PM, I will die of chronic exhaustion.

And this is how Valentin started going to bed early: „overnight”. The immediate side effect: I started waking up at 4.30 AM feeling refreshed. I used to stay in bed and not be able to fall back asleep.

So one day, I got out of bed, made some coffee and realized something: during those 3 cool and quiet 3 hours of the early morning, I can get more stuff done than during the working hours of the day.

✅ THE GOLDEN HABIT

While others go clubbing and drinking over the weekend, I minimize my dietary errors and maximize the duration and quality of my sleep.

There are 10 years now since I started going to bed at 9 PM on Saturdays and Sundays. I can sometimes even manage 8 PM. That’s because I like beginning my week with a fully „charged” battery.

✅ SOCIAL LIFE

You guessed it, I have no „social life”. My old friends, with whom I don’t hang out anymore, used to say this tidbit: “You only have one life and you’re going to sleep it all off”.

I waved them farewell and asked them to let me sleep. I told them I won’t come see them lying in a hospital bed in 10 to 15 years from then.

I’ll tell you what: if having a “social life” would have helped me look better, be healthier, have more energy and live a longer and better life, I can assure you I would have had one.

Maybe you’ll say you can’t give up on your friends, you can’t give up alcohol and clubbing. If you dream of a healthy life and looking good – keep sleeping.

✅ WHY MAXIMUM 10 PM

You’ll maybe ask yourself: what’s the deal with sleeping and what’s the big deal in going to sleep early?

I usually go to sleep at 10 PM and naturally wake up around 5 AM. So I get around 7 hours of sleep. And I don’t need an alarm because I really don’t need one.

You’ll say that 7 hours you sleep from 10 PM are the same 7 hours you sleep from 2 AM. You’ll say you can get to your office a bit later so you can also go to bed later.

You know very well from experience that going to sleep at 10 PM is far better than going to sleep at 2 AM. But you’re probably just instinctively looking for excuses and not looking to make changes.

The answer might be “the circadian rhythm”.

Somehow, humans have always went to bed at sundown and have always woken up around sunrise. Somehow, this habit has ingrained itself in our DNA.

Some of us had grandparents in the countryside. Not all villages were connected to the power grid back in the day. So the “daily sleep schedule” was 9.30 PM to 4.30 AM.

Life in the urban environment (with social media, tv and streaming) has moved our bedtime later. And has also made our waist circumference larger.

✅ BELLY FAT

Ladies, can we agree that the most disgusting and stubborn type of fat is the one on the belly? OK, now that we’re on the same page…

What if I told you that a 10 PM bedtime can make that fat go away, instead of various gym subscriptions, would you believe me?

I know it seems absurd: it seems I’m telling you that, by simply doing “nothing”, you’ll be able to solve the problem that has been tormenting you for years.

I know the mainstream mentality goes along these lines: working hard, sweating profusely, putting in the effort. All to make that belly fat disappear. Tell me: how is that working so far?

From our statistics, the women in our programs will lose around 15 to 20 cm from their waist circumference in 3 to 4 months (we measure that at the belly button level).

20 weeks = -20 cm in waist circumference? For free, no body treatments, no crunches. Seems to good to be true.

✅ IS IT WITCHCRAFT?

I guess you’ll say…

“What sort of a witchcraft is this? I have been doing ab crunches for 2 years, I go to 5 spinning classes per week, I work had and I see no results. And what you’re telling me is that if I go to sleep earlier and give up gym classes and crunches, I’ll lose my belly fat?” – YEAH, RIGHT!

Yes, that is exactly what I’m saying. By the way, you know how they call doing the same thing over and over and seeing no results?

✅ LET ME EXPLAIN

Have you ever heard of hormones? I’m guessing you already know that without an optimal hormonal cocktail in your body, you’re not able to get pregnant. Right?

That’s exactly the same with weightloss and belly fat especially. Lack of sleep brings along an unfavorable hormonal impact.

Practically, sleeping little and a late bedtime increase the production of hormones that enable weight gain (insulin, cortisol, leptin, ghrelin) and decrease the production of hormones that enable weight loss (growth hormone / testosterone).

✅ INSULIN RESISTANCE

You read that right: going to sleep later increases insulin resistance. The higher the seric insulin levels, the more abdominal fat you’ll have. The reverse is especially true.

The more abdominal fat you have, the higher your insulin levels. The higher your insulin levels in the morning on an empty stomach, the more “diabetic” you are.

✍️ More articles coming up on insulin and insulin resistance and the HOMA index. Stay tuned.

Do you also have a stack of papilloma on your neck? You do know how they call that, right? It’s called “the diabetic’s necklace”.

Exactly, this might be an indicator that you’re a diabetic and don’t even know it.

“The less you sleep, the more predisposed you are to overeating. Moreover, your body will become incapable of efficiently managing those calories, especially your blood sugar concentration.

These two factors, along with sleeping less than 7 or 8 hours per night, increases the probability of weight gain, becoming overweight or obese and significantly increase the probability of contracting type 2 diabetes” – Matthew Walker, “Why We Sleep”, page 215.

After joining our program, getting some medical tests done and watching the 42 video modules, you’ll maybe realize that a few extra kilograms might not be the least of your problems…

✅ BELLY FAT

What do you know? Those crunches you do will have no impact on hormones. Those fitness classes will hurt you more than they will benefit you.

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