When your sleep is off, your hormones are off.

Poor sleep doesn't just make you hungrier.

It actively creates a hormonal environment that works against you getting to your goals, against fat loss.

You can be eating at a caloric deficit,

and you can still be struggling to lose fat.

A cortisol is chronically elevated from poor sleep.

That's how significant this is.

What's going on, everyone?

Welcome back to another episode of the Macro Hour.

We're on these episodes.

We talk about mindset,

methodologies, and tactics that will help you lose body fat,

build muscle, be strong, and feel insanely confident.

I am your host, Nikki Stott, and welcome to episode

number 347. And today we're going to dive into all things about sleep. Because if you feel like

you're doing everything right, you're eating well, you're working out, you're trying to stay

consistent, but you feel like, you know, you're fighting an uphill battle against your body every single day and you're not getting to where you want to be. And it's been months on end. You've been putting in this work. Look, it might not be your food. It might not be your workouts. It's probably your sleep. And I know, like, it's not an exciting topic to talk about.

It's not as fun as chatting about macros or training programs or, you know,

a nutritional overhaul and how to get from A to Z, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

But, guys, sleep is honestly, in my opinion, the missing piece that you're looking for, okay?

And that a lot of people need and should dive into talking about more of it.

First, I just want to completely shift the way that you think about sleep.

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