# @ciarafoyinc on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdWdNU1iDH7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70587558-ciarafoyinc-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-16T14:05:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ciara Foy // Nutritionist • Hormone Expert • 20 Yrs (@ciarafoyinc) — https://gondola.cc/ciarafoyinc

## Caption

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 to storing fat. In a 2024 Diabetes Care study, women who slept about 80 minutes less a night for six weeks saw fasting insulin rise, and the effect was strongest after menopause. Insulin resistance is the major underlying issue I see in women over 40.

Sweet potato, squash, lentils or my fav, black beans with dinner. That’s a sleep tool.

Comment INSULIN and I’ll send you my free Insulin Advantage Quick Start Guide. Make sure you’re following me so it reaches your DMs.

Save this for tonight, when you’re deciding whether dinner gets carbs.

Send this to the friend who’s tired all day and wide awake at 3am.

FOLLOW @ciarafoyinc for the hormone science your low carb plan left out.

#tiredbutwired #insulinresistance #perimenopause #cortisol #womenover40

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tiredbutwired, cortisol, insulinresistance, perimenopause, womenover40

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