3 WORST HORMONE DISTURBERS that cause fat gain on your hips, belly and thighs. Hormones can be a girls worst friend. In this series, excerpted from my Ideal Body Blueprint program, youll learn how easy it is to avoid the unpleasant (but totally unnecessary) effects of HORMONAL IMBALANCE that can leave you feeling like a rung out old rag, devoid of all life and zest. WHY should you care and want to read this entire postl? Because hormonal imbalance affects women of ALL ages, usually gets harder to control as you age, and stands like a brick wall between you and your health and weight loss goals. It can be obvious, or it can be insidious - showing only as obscure symptoms such as hunger and cravings, or the inability to lose weight. The 1st wicked hormone disturber is INSULIN – a.k.a. The Fat Storage Hormone Youve heard of insulin, right? Many of us connect insulin with diabetes and that is true. Yet most of us dont realize that insulin is actually a hormone we literally can’t live without. HOWEVER, too much insulin in your body not only throws your hormonal balance off, it signals your body to store fat right where you DONT want it - on your hips, belly, and thighs! (Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if some of it went to our boobs!) The good news is that you can easily shut down this fat-storing response by following a few simple guidelines I outline below, but first... Where does fat-producing insulin come from? After you eat, your body turns carbohydrates into glucose to use for energy. Your body will then either use it for immediate energy - or store it in your muscles and liver as glycogen (which is just the word for stored glucose). But here is the problem… Since your body can only store about 400-500g of glycogen, any leftover is directed like a red hot laser beam straight to your fat cells to be stored on your body as UNSIGHTLY BODY FAT. We call this ‘spill over”. Insulin shuttles the excess right into the most readily available fat cells - which unfortunately for women happens to be your hips, thighs, and stomach. Yikes! No wonder its so difficult to get rid of fat in the exact areas that make it hard to look and feel good in a bathing suit! I certainly know the feeling, but if I and thousands of other women can learn how to avoid ‘spill over’, so can YOU. Its a part of what I teach in The Ideal Body Blueprint. What you need to understand is that whenever insulin is present in your body, you CANNOT burn fat. Therefore, to lose fat or prevent it from being stored in the first place, you need to control the release of insulin. How do you control the release of insulin and avoid triggering it to store fat? The best way to switch off the release of excess insulin is both by choosing the right carbs to eat and through proper ‘nutrient timing’. You might think the most obvious way to do that is to totally avoid eating carbohydrates - but BEWARE! That’s actually one of the WORST things you can do for long-term fat loss and a healthy metabolism and body. Here are some easy way to control your insulin release (in a nutshell): 1. Time carb intake to be first thing in the morning and after a workout (more about this on pages 27-29 of The Ideal Body Blueprint). a) At all times avoid “CORRUPT carbs” which are devoid of fibre (fibre helps your body process carbs efficiently). Corrupt carbs include white bread, chips, snacks and other baked or fried foods that have been mechanically processed and loaded with artificial ingredients. b) Avoid carbohydrates (especially corrupt ones) before your workout, which will turn off your fat-burning switch. c) After your workout, eat (or drink) a meal containing protein and carbohydrates to stop your body from burning muscle along with fat (and providing added recovery benefits). *Note, the type of carbs you can eat after an intense workout is quite different from your regular meals 2. Avoid eating high-glycemic “sugary” foods. We all know to avoid eating cakes and cookies (at least most of the time), but even healthy foods like some fruits and veggies can put your body into sugar overload. These kinds of foods cause a sharp rise in your blood sugar, which then causes an excess of insulin to be released – and we now know that’s the perfect recipe for FAST FAT GAIN along with other undesirable symptoms like fatigue, moodiness, inability to concentrate, extreme hunger and cravings. 3. Avoid eating foods that are highly processed, like boxed or fast foods, which damage your insulin sensitivity and lead to Insulin Resistance, a condition that makes it MUCH more difficult to lose hip, thigh, and belly fat. 4. To help lower your insulin response, don’t eat carbs by themselves. Eating protein (or protein and fat) WITH carbs – helps slow down the absorption of carbs/sugar into your system so you don’t get a huge insulin surge. In the Ideal Body Blueprint I teach you how and when to combine proteins, carbs, and fats to turn off your fat storing switch and TURN ON your fat burning one. You won’t believe how easy it is! It’s why the question my readers ask me most is, “Why hasn’t anyone told me this before?! I guarantee what you learn about fats will blow your mind! Did you know its been proven that eating fat gives by far the best control over blood glucose and insulin levels? I give you the whole rundown on how eating fat (even butter, cheese and cream!) is actually one of the best ways to melt fat right off your body! NOTE: while new research now proves that saturated fats are definitely not as evil as once thought, you MUST avoid Trans Fats like the plague (for instance things like margarine and the fats used in some baked goods and take-out foods).
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:59:56 +0000
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