Five Hidden Factors in Weight Gain

     Five Hidden Factors in Weight Gain

1. Eat the right kind of fats to burn fat
People are not losing weight, number one, because they抮e not eating the right kinds of fats. It takes fat to burn fat. I mean we know, for example, that GLA, gamma-linolenic acid, in the amounts of 360 milligrams a day and up have the ability to trigger of the burning of a particular metabolically underactive fat known as brown fat.

Take the right kind of GLA and you抮e going to start burning brown fat that without any dietary change at all will allow you to lose weight.
In addition to GLA, Krill oil is a great source of essential fats.

2. Tired and toxic liver
When your liver is overloaded with toxins, those toxins get thrown into the bile. Bile also has a secondary job, and that is to emulsify fats into these little particles that your body can then absorb and utilize properly. When the bile is too viscous or too thick it can抰 metabolize fats properly, and you start storing those fats anywhere into this little roll right around your tummy, too your hips, or any other areas as well.

This fat can be toxic because it抯 going to do harm to the organs itself, it抯 going to make you much more susceptible to metabolic syndrome, and the problem is that you抮e simply not metabolizing it properly so your cholesterol may be going up, you抣l feel sluggish, and you really do need your fats because they抮e such an important macronutrient.

The liver knows how to detoxify unless it抯 on overload, or unless we抮e not feeding it enough of its antioxidants. One of the easiest things you can do to really thin the bile and help your liver, believe it or not, is every day in the morning taking perhaps the juice of half a lemon, squeeze it in hot water, and you抳e got a wonderful bile thinner, liver toner and kidney asset; it抯 like a kidney support system. That will start peristaltic activity in your body, and it will also start to flush the system and get the liver toned up and really humming nicely alone. It does 400 wonderful jobs in your system; you抳e really got to keep it going strong. And when it抯 on overload with all the plastics in the environment, the pesticides, the meds, the over-the-count meds and the prescription meds, some times it doesn抰 have enough of those nutrients needed in its detox pathways.

3. Stress
Stress causes your body to release cortisol, which is a stress-based hormone. Prolonged coritisol release induced by stress caused the accumulation of belly fat.

To keep cortisol levels from getting out of hand you抳e got to control your stress levels, so you do that with proper sleep, number one, getting to bed at ten o抍lock at night, lights out at ten, maybe up at eight, get quality sleep, making sure the room is dark. It抯 also important to eat mini-meals throughout the day to keep your blood sugar level, which physiologically will keep your stress levels in control. Exercising is extremely important for dissipating that extra stress. And I tell people that are under a lot of stress emotionally to take a stress remedy, my favorite being the Bach Flower, which is-

4. Insulin Levels

Number four would be the concept of extra insulin, which is another fat-promoting hormone, so you want to keep your insulin levels balanced. You do that again similarly to what you do with the cortisol.

You need to be exercising to make sure those levels are balanced. You抮e also going to make sure that when you抮e eating carbohydrates you balance it with a protein and a fat, keeps levels really balanced. That抯 where the 40-30-30 concept came in so many years ago; I wrote about it so I抦 very familiar. And I would say in terms of insulin you抮e going to want to make sure that you抮e taking a little extra chromium, which I find to be the best insulin tamer of all.

5. False Fat ( Fluid Retention)

The concept is that a lot of us are hanging on to water retention, which we think may be fat. We抮e very bloated, and I know you hear so much from women that say 揓ust let me get rid of the bloat,?and it抯 because of hidden food sensitivities. They抮e eating too much wheat, dairy, corn, usually yeast and sugar, or they抮e taking hormones, they抮e taking artificial hormones, you know, that are affecting their progesterone and their estrogen balance, progesterone being a natural diuretic, estrogen being a water-based hormone that will actually carry a lot of water and make your system retain it as well as salt. And we抮e got a problem if you抮e not eating enough protein. If you抮e not eating enough protein, which has a diuretic quality in and of itself, you抮e going to be holding on to too much fluid. And then last but not least, dare I forget, a lot of over-the-counter medications, as well as some of the prescription meds,- notoriously tranquilizers, which people can take and they can add as much as 30 pounds of water weight. When they take antidepressants, that抯 one of the things, they just bloat up.

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