Fighting Hormones with Hormones

When you come to that stage of your weight loss efforts where you lost some weight but you can’t lose any more, consuming less calories than you burn will not help. This is where hormones come into the picture, and you need to understand the concept of fighting hormones with hormones..

 

First you lose fat from the easier parts of your body then you stop losing weight all of a sudden as you continue keeping your fat in your difficult areas that are helped by your hormones and the hormonal battle starts. And you only have one option to get over this barrier: Fighting hormones with hormones..

 

Cortisol– flab on your tummy, insulin– fat on lower back and love handles and estrogen– lower body fat are the three most common enemy hormones that help the fat in troubled areas of your body stay put.

The only way you can fight estrogen in your lower body fat loss efforts is with testosterone and increasing the levels of this hormone in your body naturally: exercising right and increasing your training density. Keep in mind that the levels of testosterone that you will produce in your body is in no way going to make women more manly and it will only make men a little more toned and muscular. Increasing density means either doing the same amount of exercise in less time or training harder and more in the same period of time. It is up to you whichever one you pick, either will do it.

It will be quite challenging at first but let’s choose any three exercises (and I am not telling you which ones) and do one after the other as if you are in a circuit training session, take one minute rest, then increase the weight by 10-20% and do more repetitions. Although it will be hard, you will have fun and be able to burn more fat especially on your lower body and all over.

Insulin-like Growth Factor One (IGF-1) is the name of the hormone that can help you combat insulin resistance, your lower back fat and lovely love handles. If you’ve come to that stage where you’ve lost some weight but you can’t progress, this is because you’ve developed insulin resistance previously because of being overweight. The only way to fight this situation is by increasing your insulin sensitivity and producing IGF-1 as much as you can by specific fat-burning training- using fast-paced movements and moving more efficiently and burning heaps of calories.

The more cortisol hormone in your body, the more ugly fat you will be storing on your tummy. Growth hormone is how you can easily fight the nasty cortisol hormone accumulated in your body and burn that unwanted belly fat. Getting more sleep is one way you can improve your growth hormone levels and decrease the impact of cortisol on your body. This doesn’t mean you can sleep your way to the perfect flat abs. We all wish it was that easy : )

Lactic acid training is another one.. You will try and produce as much lactic acid as possible during your exercise session, by lifting the weight very slowly then lowering it very quickly: Up slowly in 5-6 seconds then down quicky in 1-2 seconds. This works for any exercise you can think of with dumbells, barbells and machines. Just choose lighter weights than normal- roughly 30% less as you will really feel it! This will help you produce a great deal of lactic acid and growth hormone to fight the cortisol efficiently and burn tummy fat and overall body fat.

 

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