Yes, you heard correctly! Get some sun and lose weight.
As a holistic health coach, there are so many aspects of life to tweak to find extraordinary wellbeing. I often promote boosting Vitamin D by way of sunshine for three reasons. Plus there is the big bonus of losing weight.
1. Americans are highly deficient in Vitamin D. We need to boost it.
2. It’s free.
3. When I broke my leg a couple years ago, my surgeon even recommended sunshine as the best source of boosting Vitamin D to heal my broken bones.
Dr. Amen, Brain Expert and Founder of Amen Clinics, says that living in sunny Southern California, his own Vitamin D levels were unusually low because he works so many hours indoors. Once he boosted his Vitamin D levels, he lost his appetite, boosted his mood, and shed some pounds.
Why? Because when we are deficient in Vitamin D, the hormone leptin that tells your brain to stop eating doesn’t work. A little sunshine curbs the appetite.
Take Vitamin D supplements, but go outside. We have more recently been scared off of soaking up the sun, but it is critical. Learn how much time is best for you.
Kids are also highly affected by this deficiency which has been proven to greatly affect their behavior. Take care not to burn. But commit to healthy doses of sunshine to improve moods and lose weight.