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carbs by day, fat by night
Anonymous
there's a biochemical switch in the liver that flips when you go to sleep and back when you wake up. It switches your metabolism from carb burning (glucosis) to fat burning (keytosis). Keytosis is how the atkins diet works. By starving your body of carbs, the liver is forced to flip the switch from glucosis to keytosis and metabolize fat instead. Your sweat smells funny from the keytones left over from keytosis, namely acetone, which is why your sweat will smell sickly sweet, like antifreeze.
This matches the finding that not getting enough sleep aggravates obesity over many years -- the fat your body would've burned normally on a full night of sleep never gets burned when you go without sleep and you slowly gain weight over time. So get your beauty rest, if you want to burn fat.
Another technique mentioned here by others is not to eat anything several hours before bedtime. So if you go to sleep at 10, don't eat or drink anything but water after 6 PM. Or 8 PM. Or 5 PM. Whatever you can make stick. Your body will run on carbs until bed, and since you haven't eaten anything for a few hours the keytosis will come from your fat cells and not the fat in your bloodstream and gut.
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