12/23/2025
You host flawlessly. Everyone raves. Then you spend 72 hours feeling like you got hit by a truck.
Here's the biology you're missing:
Skip breakfast to prep, run on cortisol for six hours. That's glucose mobilized from stress, not fuel.
Graze standing up, drink wine, no protein anchor. Blood sugar spiking and crashing. Gut processing in sympathetic mode: poor motility, incomplete breakdown, inflammation.
Finally sit to eat at 8pm after 12 hours fasted.
Your body can't digest a large meal in that state. The bloating lasts days because your gut is still inflamed.
The fix: protein within 90 minutes of waking, water during prep, seated eating, micro-pauses between tasks.
Your body reads hosting as threat unless you architect stability into it.
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