Tired all day. Wired the second your head hits the pillow. And dinner was exactly what you were told to eat: protein, veggies, low carb. I’m 50, and after twenty years in women’s metabolic health, this is the pattern I see most in high-performing women. Tired but wired, eating lighter and lighter at night, and sleeping worse and worse. Here’s the part nobody explains. A low carb dinner works for some women. But if you’re running on stress all day and lying awake at night, complex, fiber-rich carbs at dinner help bring your cortisol down. And cortisol has to come down for your body to produce melatonin. Those two run on a see-saw. Pair carbs at dinner with a real wind-down routine and you’re finally giving your body what it needs to switch off. Sleep is where the weight piece turns. It lowers your cravings, it calms your hunger, it rebuilds your insulin sensitivity. Without it you’re more stressed, your cortisol runs higher, your insulin sensitivity drops, and your body is more prone...