This post is brought to you by our sponsor, “Always Eat After 7 PM”. The opinions expressed below are my own.

First of all, I’ve had the same goal on my calendar every month since January and that was to lose the baby weight. My husband and I are trying for our third and last child, but I did not want to go into getting pregnant will my fluctuating weight issues. One minute I would be exactly where I wanted to be only to gain it all back over a few weeks. It’s been so frustrating.

So not only is the book helping me in that aspect, I actually LOVE the recipes they offer in the back of the book as well. My favorite is the pork lettuce tacos for sure! So yummy!

I couldn’t have asked for this to come at a better time. I’m super excited about finally getting this weight off. Just to update you, I am 5 pounds down as I am going into my third week. I did not follow the diet exactly, but I plan on doing that starting next Monday. Everything else has been so awesome and I’m excited to see what I look like on my birthday later this month! Yay! Super excited!

Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the book:

• “Research shows that the average person’s metabolic rate is no different during sleep than during the day. In short, your metabolism doesn’t slow down at night. Nor does your body store fat at the end of the day. Whether it’s 8 am or 8 pm, you use food for energy the same way.”

• “Late-night eating also curbs calorie intake the next day. In a four-week study, dieters added a snack to their daily regimen 90 minutes after dinner every night, and check this out: late-night eaters ate an average of 397 fewer calories per day.”

•  “A research paper published in Sports Medicine in 2014 showed that people who eat the majority of their carbs at dinner actually sleep better. Carb-induced, quality sleep decreases cortisol (a fat-storing hormone) and ramps up the production of your sleep hormones, serotonin and melatonin. Restorative sleep increases fat-burning hormones—the main one being growth hormone—overnight.”

Also, remember the yummy recipes I was talking about. You can find them by clicking here.

• Bestselling author, Joel Marion, is a fitness expert and nutritionist debunking the myths underlying traditional dieting and offers a simple, highly effective weight loss program. 

• Joel Marion’s Always Eat After 7PM program makes dieting easy and eliminates 90% of reasons for resistance. 

Learn more about the book and how to purchase here

Check out my journey here:

Week 1:

Week 2