Trouble Losing Weight Hormones

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Hormonal Weight Loss is a smarter approach to losing weight for women over 35. I've been teaching this approach to women for years and they are always surprised how much easier weight loss is when they approach weight loss with hormones in mind.

After 35, female reproductive hormones and muscle mass are declining making their bodies highly sensitive to stress. Dieting, exercise and weight loss are stress on the body.

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Taking a hormonal weight loss approach will help you lose weight with ease while eliminating hunger and cravings. This strategy sets you up for long-term success with losing weight and transforming your lifestyle.

Today we're going to talk about hormonal weight loss and I'm going to explain to you what hormonal weight loss is for women over 35 so you can stop playing the yo-yo diet game of starting a diet, losing some weight and then stopping the diet and then gaining it all back.

And I'm going to explain to you why hormonal weight loss - why that approach is a smarter strategy to losing weight permanently, so that you can stop playing this game. And I'm also going to give you a couple of actions at the end of this podcast today that are going to help you get started with hormonal weight loss right now.

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But first I want to explain to you what hormonal weight loss really is and how it is different from your typical diet. So every time you want to lose weight I'm guessing you probably go down the path of eating less and trying to exercise more, maybe cutting out some some food groups or even your favorite foods, and then trying to motivate yourself and rely on willpower and to eat really perfect and clean and all the things right?

So this may last a week or two. Most studies show that after two weeks of trying to do a diet most people fall off the wagon. Maybe you go a little bit longer, but in the long run this process or approach of trying to eat less exercise more does not work.

You always end up gaining more weight and then some in the long run and the process essentially just backfires, leaving you feeling always like what's wrong with me? Why can't I do this? Why can't I lose weight?

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There must be something going on with me that I can't stick with this diet now. When I talk about it, I just want to be clear. I'm talking about one size fits all diets like Keto, Paleo, Whole 30, Nutrisystem, Jenny Crag, WW, macro counting.

Those approaches, don't take hormones into account. When you do those approaches, it actually puts a lot more stress on your metabolism and causes hormone imbalances with the hormones that control your hunger, energy and cravings.

And it leaves you craving more food and storing more fat. You see the two biggest hurdles that you have when it comes to losing weight is hunger and cravings.

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If you can win the battle of hunger and cravings, then losing weight is a lot easier. It feels more effortless, and this is what I hear from my clients, because when you take a hormonal weight loss approach, you are controlling hunger and cravings because you understand how your hunger and cravings are affected by food, what type of food and how much of the food that you're eating.

These are very powerful bio-feedback signals in the body. So when you're hungry and you're having cravings for food and your energy is in the tank, guess who is going to win the battle? Your body! You're not going to win that.

And so if you're somebody who's like, why don't I just have enough will power to say no to carbs? The reason why you don't have enough willpower to say no to carbs is because your body, one needs some carbs, and two, you're probably not getting the right balance of foods to keep your hunger and cravings, the hormones that control your hunger and cravings in check.

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This is why many women get in trouble and can't stick with a diet. You are in a losing battle, and you're making it harder to lose weight by not taking your hormones into account first.

So the way that I kind of like to think about this is, if you are counting calories, for instance, let's take that path. If you're counting calories and let's say you have 400 calorie donut and you have 400 calorie salad with avocado and salmon and tons of greens and veggies and maybe a little bit of sweet potato on that salad.

Each of them are 400 calories. But the problem is that with the 400 calorie donut, it's going to do things to your hormones that the 400 calorie salad that's really well-balanced isn't going to do. The 400 calorie salad, higher protein, higher fiber, and it's also got a good amount of fat. That's going to keep your hunger and energy and cravings really stable.

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It's going to keep your hormones happy. It's going to help your metabolism because you've got a good balance of food there. You eat the 400 calorie donut. What's going to happen is insulin going to spike because you've got no protein to balance the insulin.

You've got no fiber. All you really have is sugar and fat. Two things that your body loves for storing fat is sugar and fat. So just because they're both the same calories, they don't have the same effect on your hormones in your body. And this is what so many women really fail to understand. Not all food is created equal.

If you have my cookbook, it's called the Low Calorie Cookbook, it's on my website, Skinny Fitalicious dot com, or you can actually get it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, basically anywhere these days. If you have my cookbook, take it out.

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There's a page in the cookbook where I actually have a graphic that shows this, and I talk all about hormones and how different calories and the breakdown of those calories can affect your hormones.

Overtime if you have trained your body to expect the sugar and the fat, you're going to be more hungry, you're going to have more cravings. So when you do something really drastic, like low carb or Keto, you're always going to be in a cycle of binging because you're not getting enough of the right type of carbs in your diet.

So your body's going to look for a quick fix. So this is why these these diet approaches just do not work. They simply do not work because you're not factoring in hormonal weight loss so I hope that makes sense. Here's a couple of pillars of hormonal weight loss that you really have to think about.

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The first pillar is that hormonal weight loss reduces your hunger. Weight loss diets do the opposite. They increase your hunger, the typical diet is not taking into account hormones. What those diets are going to do is increase your hunger hormone, your hunger, hormone, ghrelin in particular.

So you're always not going to feel full and your brain is always going to tell your your belly and your stomach and your brain are always going to talk back and forth and they're not going to realize that you're full, and so you're always going to crave more food.

Every time you eat what you have to understand, it's an opportunity to give instructions to your hormones. Hormones are chemical messengers, they give instructions to the body. So when you eat food, the food gives instructions to the hormones.

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Do you want to store fat? Do you want to release fat? Do you want to crave more food? Do you want to have good energy? The hormones are responding to the food that you're eating. And if you don't want to be hungry and you want to control the hormones that dictates your hunger level, then there are certain amounts and types of food you can be eating to dial your appetite and hunger down.

And this is what I work on with my clients is how to eat this way, so that they can go three to five hours in between meals without snacks. And this is a big difference between hormonal weight loss approach and a traditional diet program. The constant hunger and the need to eat frequently goes away, and you stop snacking, and this happens really quickly for some of my clients.

Now you're probably wondering well how you do this. It's not the same way for every single client. We start with certain portion sizes of food groups for my clients and then we dial the portion sizes up and down based on their lifestyle conditions and everything that's going on with them.

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So everyone is different. Some clients need more fat, some clients need more protein, some clients need more carbs