17/08/2021
"I should just eat less and exercise more to lose weight...but I'm too tired to exercise"
Woman said that to me the other day.
When I was burnout out years ago - I was exactly like this. I would FORCE myself to exercise..mainly because I was worried if I didn't I would just gain more weight.
Then I would need another coffee, biscuit and afternoon chocolate to keep me going.
If this is you, then your plan may be to 'EAT LESS & EXERCISE MORE' but this won't cut it.
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WHAT TO DO
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Firstly, the important thing to realise is that the reason we gain weight is because our hormones deposit fat into our cells.
It's NOT just a case of overeating or not doing enough exercise.
It's a hormonal situation where the body is using specific hormones to shift excess food and storing it into our body fat, instead of oxidising it.
There are three key hormones that look after this.
1. CORTISOL
This is our stress hormone. If you've been too busy, stressed, overwhelmed or anxious and feel tired all the time, then cortisol is our stress hormone which tells our body to do a lot of different things to help us with stress, but one of the things that is does for our metabolism, is that it tells our body to not burn body fat for fuel, but to start breaking down muscle.
So it's a real catabolic hormone, it burns muscle and stores fat.
2. INSULIN
Insulin moves sugar/glucose from our bloodstream into our cells for energy.
Now if we've been having lots of sugars, lots of high-glycemic carbohydrates or refined grains, we are going to have insulin insensitivity which means our body will store excess food as fat.
Insulin resistance is proving to be the biggest culprit on why we get fat - NOT BECAUSE WE EAT TOO MUCH (using caps to emphasise this point, i'm not yelling)
The third system is our
3. THYROID
Our thyroid gland is the queen of our metabolism and quite often our thyroid is affected due to stress, poor gut health, excess sugars, inflammation, toxicity and so on.
Our thyroid regulates our metabolic burn rate, how our body burns excess calories.
Obviously we want our burn rate to be high not only for weight management but to also produce energy.
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DON'T JUST EAT LESS & EXERCISE MORE
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These three key hormones, when out of balance, will cause our body to store excess calories as fat.
It's not just a case of, you've eaten too much over Christmas and now you're going to have to exercise more and eat less.
That's probably your strategy, you may be thinking "I'll just cut down on food and exercise a lot more."
It won't make a difference until you balance these hormones through diet and lifestyle medicine.
I'm going to be doing further training on this shortly, you can join me, it's completely free.
I'll share how to "Reset Your Adrenals To Conquer Fatigue, Low Mood, and Unexplained Weight Gain..... Even When You've Tried All The Right Things Before"
I'll talk more about those systems and show you three simple shifts that you can do immediately to go from exhausted to energised
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