You can follow the plate method and still feel the afternoon slump. Usually it is one of five things. Here are the first three.
Mistakes 4 and 5 — including the one almost everyone makes at breakfast — plus 20 ready-built meals and a hand-portion guide that works in restaurants, are in the free guide.
Half the plate non-starchy vegetables. A quarter protein. A quarter slow carbohydrate. Add a fat. That is the whole system, and it works because it needs no counting, no tracking and no app.
The trouble is that each of the five mistakes below looks harmless on its own. Together they turn a plate that should hold you until dinner into one that has you hunting for something sweet by three o'clock.
The same plate you ate comfortably at thirty behaves differently at fifty. Glucose handling becomes less forgiving with age, so the margin for error narrows.
That is not a reason for anxiety — it is a reason for precision. Small corrections that would not have mattered before now produce a noticeable difference in how steady your afternoon feels.
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