Thank so much for those who took part in this weekend game! You rock!!! 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 And our winner this week is @Amanda Mirrlees !!!! She logged an entry for each of the 15 entries. Congrats!!! 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 We did the supermarket games before - you can check them here. But this weekend let´s try something different. I will post some comments with products and meals, and YOU have to rate those with green, yellow, red and explain why you gave that score; 🟢 = great 🟡= OK-ish 🔴= no way So, let´s play! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 START: Saturday May 9th 10.00 (UK TIME) END: Sunday May 10th, 20.00 (UK TIME) WINNER: the person that engages the most PRIZE: Move to Premium Membership 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 It´s a great way to engage and level up, especially for the new commers 😍

https://www.skool.com/live/QxZVW3RjLtv See you there!

Did you know that constant high cortisol is sabotaging your Insulin Sensitivity? Why do you think is the main cause?

In the Mojave desert, the rains arrive in late summer like a long-overdue promise. After months of cracked earth and merciless heat, the clouds finally break open and the rain pours down and the ground does something that defies every instinct. It refuses to drink. Geologists call this hydrophobicity. The extreme heat, combined with resins released by desert plants, creates an invisible waxy crust on the surface of the soil. The rain lands, beads up and rolls away. The harder it pours, the faster the water escapes. The earth has simply forgotten how to receive the rain. Something almost identical happens inside the human body when it develops insulin resistance, and understanding the parallel may be one of the most useful things we can do for our long-term health. Every time we eat, the pancreas releases insulin, a hormone that functions as a biological key. It travels through the bloodstream to our cells, fits into a specific receptor, and turns it, allowing glucose to enter and be burned as energy. In a healthy body, this is an elegant, almost effortless choreography. A meal arrives, insulin rises gently, cells open, energy flows in, and the signal quiets. Like rain falling on soft soil, everything is absorbed in its own time. But our modern food environment has fundamentally changed our metabolism. When we consistently eat highly processed carbohydrates and added sugars - things that break down almost instantly into glucose - the insulin signal never gets to quiet. And just as the desert soil develops its waxy crust as a response to relentless heat, our cells begin to protect themselves from the relentless flood of insulin by pulling their receptors inward. They grow numb to the signal. This is insulin resistance - and it is important to understand that it is not a failure of the body. It is the body doing exactly what a body does: adapting to its environment, protecting itself from what it perceives as excess. The cell, overwhelmed by a constant influx of energy it cannot process, locks its own door. The problem is that a protective adaptation, sustained long enough, becomes its own disease.

Most people don’t realize they’re losing strength, balance, and mobility until everyday things start feeling harder. It could be things like getting up from the floor, walking upstairs without using the railing, standing on one leg while putting on shoes or turning quickly without feeling a bit unstable... We tend to call this 'ageing', but it’s often a mix of not enough movement, not enough strength training and, of course, not giving your body what it needs to maintain muscle and move well. Muscle doesn’t just disappear with time. It disappears when we don’t use it (use it or lose it, remember?!) … and when we don’t support it (protein being a big one). The same thing is true for stiffness. It's not just “tight muscles”, it can also be linked to recovery, inflammation, hydration, and how we fuel the body. A simple self-check: 1. Stand on one leg for 30 seconds (no support) 2. Sit down and get up from the floor without using your hands 3. Bend forward and try to touch your toes without bending your knees Give them a try! If one felt harder than expected, that’s not a failure, it’s feedback...Your body is asking for a bit more support (movement, strength, working on your balance… and better fuel). I'm curious to read how did it go in the comments!👇