To Lose Fat - alter the hormonal environment in your body
If, like the majority of Americans, you are currently losing the fight against fat it is probably because lipogenic hormones are dominant in your body and they are sending your body a message to STORE FAT.
As long as this is the prevailing message inside your body, trying to lose fat will be like trying to walk up an downward-moving escalator. Because your body must obey the hormonal directives it receives, the only solution is to change these hormonal signals. This is not a difficult task so long as you are willing to discard old beliefs and practices and embrace an consider a new approach to fat loss. When you change the hormonal message from “store fat” to “burn fat,” fat loss is the natural and inevitable result.
Now you see one big reason why conventional dieting is doomed to failure. The virtually universal “rebound effect” (in which the dieter promptly regains lost fat after discontinuing the diet) experienced by conventional dieters is vivid testimony to what happens when a dietary approach is adopted that addresses the symptom (i.e., excess bodyfat) rather than the cause (i.e., a fat-producing hormonal state). Another problem with conventional dieting is that it is based on restriction. Think about it, every conventional diet can be described in terms of what it restricts:
- the low-fat diet RESTRICTS fat intake,
- the low-carbohydrate (”Atkins” diet) RESTRICTS carbohydrates,
- the “rice and vegetables diet” RESTRICTS everything except rice and vegetables, etc.
Restriction is a form of deprivation. Self-deprivation requires willpower which, like any power source, is eventually depleted. This makes conventional dieting, necessarily, a short term measure. And because conventional dieting does nothing to correct the underlying problem (i.e., a heavily fat-promoting hormonal state), once you quit the diet and resume normal eating, the fat you lost comes piling back on with a vengeance.
According to two-time Nobel Prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling:
“No crash diet or fad diet can solve the obesity problem, because these diets are so disagreeable and such a continuing nuisance that the obese person soon gives up. A successful treatment is one that will be adhered to year after year. To achieve such continued compliance the diet should appeal to the appetite.”
