The Key to Losing Weight is Lowering Cortisol!
Oct 06,2025
How to Assess Your Cortisol Levels
You can tell by observing yourself closely:
- High Cortisol: Central obesity, meaning a large belly with relatively slim limbs.
- General Fatigue, feeling constantly tired, with muscle weakness and slower wound healing.
- Low Cortisol: Feeling drained, lacking appetite, and experiencing weight loss.
Signs of High Cortisol
- Sudden, uncontrollable cravings for food.
- Stress causes a strong desire for specific foods—cake, fried chicken, cookies, or other high-calorie options.
- You’re not truly hungry, but can’t control the urge to eat.
- Even while eating, you feel anxious or irritable.
- Before you know it, you've overeaten and regret it.
- You can resist during the day, but at night, the cravings return.
- Despite sticking to exercise, your waistline doesn’t budge, and you still carry extra belly fat.
How to Lower Cortisol

1. Eat Breakfast On Time:
After waking up, cortisol levels may spike.
Eating breakfast helps lower it.

2. Get Outdoors and Soak Up the Sun:
Spending time in nature and getting sunlight
improves mood and emotional well-being,
which helps reduce stress and cortisol.

3. Other Daily Tips:
Add cinnamon to your coffee.
Its properties help lower cortisol and suppress appetite.

4. Listen to Relaxing, Upbeat Music:
Music can help calm your body and mind,
reducing stress and cortisol levels.
