FACT: Women have a harder time losing fat on average than men. Numerous factors can contribute to this situation. Women have lower metabolic rates, lower levels of lypolytic hormones, higher levels of lipogenic hormones, and they seem to adapt to weight loss faster than men.
My List of 10 Factors to Consider to win the fat wars:
1.) Are you controlling Insulin?
Insulin is released from the pancreas in response to blood sugar levels. Insulin is considered a storage hormone and its primary job is to take sugar from the blood and carry it to muscle, and fat cells.
2.) Top up your Leptin Levels Your Brain Will Be Your Guide:
Leptin (anti-starvation hormone) that is made in muscle, stomach, fat cells and a few other places in the body it tells your body what your energy stores are. Generally speaking a decrease in leptin levels means a decreased metabolic rate.
3.) CONTROL Cortisol – Stress Hormone that stores itself as fat, the worst kind, a stubborn beta 3- receptor and stores itself in the mid-section/belly. Constant stress, anxiety and lack of sleep are only a few causes your adrenal glands to work overtime producing stress hormones, including cortisol.
4.) Are Your PH Balance Levels out of whack?!?! We live and die at the cellular level. All the cells (billions of them) that make up the human body are slightly alkaline, and must maintain alkalinity in order to function and remain healthy and alive. However their cellular activity creates acid and this acid is what gives the cell energy and function.
The human body is very intelligent. As we become more and more acidic the body starts to set up defence mechanisms to keep the damaging acid from entering our vital organs. It is known that acid gets stored in fat cells. Many people have found that a return to a healthy inner biological terrain helps them to lose excess fat.
5.) Lacking in Iron – Essential nutrient for everyone, particularly important for athletes. Iron transports oxygen to muscle cells, where is used to make energy. Without iron, you can’t make ATP, your fuel that runs the body. An obvious note in fat burning is without oxygen to the muscle cells there is no supply for your fat-burning engine.
6.) Low Levels of DHEA – the bodies’ most abundant natural producing steroid hormone in your body. It’s produced by the Adrenal glands, skin and brain. It is promoted as a muscle-building, fat-burning, brain-boosting, energizing supplement. Studies have indicated also that taking DHEA supplement it appears to control cortisol, which in turn as we know will stop the catabolic state of muscle wasting.
7.) FAT PHOBIA? Of course I am referring to all the good essential fatty acids. For Short, EFAs are needed everywhere in your body, they are the major components of cell membranes, and hormones. Hormones to remind you are the chemical messengers that run every body system. Amongst other benefits but one in particular with this topic is EFAs will stabilize glucose response, which support insulin balance, curb sugar cravings that leads us down a fat ride if we eat them, it also supports anabolic hormone stimulation for muscle-building.
8.) LOVE YOUR LIVER! Liver and Bowel Function: The liver is a MAJOR fat burning organ in the body and regulars fat metabolism by a complicated set of biochemical pathways. The liver can also pump excessive fat out of the body through the bile into the small intestines. Thus the liver is a remarkable machine for keeping weight under control being both a fat burning organ and a fat pumping organ.
9.) Thyroid Needs to Keep Ticking: Absolutely the biggest problem for weight gain, fatigue, loss of appetite, inability to tolerate cold, a slow heart rate, muscle weakness, cramps, depression, constipation, PMS no name a few.
It is your body’s internal thermostat, regulating the temperature by secreting two hormones that control how quickly the body burns calories and uses energy.
10.) Allergies and/or Food Sensitivities: Food is the topic of the allergen and can provoke allergic reactions; some common ones are wheat, gluten, corn, dairy, shellfish, strawberries, tomatoes, and nuts. Basically food your body cannot use or that is a poison to your system is stored in the tissues and causes water retention. Poor nutrition often fats coming from animal proteins, will not be digested properly and/or may not easily be burned and can accumulate in the body.Food Lectins are often blood specific, again find out your blood type it will go a long way for good health. These are proteins that attach to preferred receptors in your body. Lectins for some blood types will interfere with digestion, hormones, immune system, metabolism, nervous system, and insulin resistance.
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