When it comes to weight loss, certain hormones in the body can make or break your efforts. We always talk about maintaining a calorie deficit to shed weight, but some hormones do decide whether you are gonna lose weight and also the pace of it. We are specifically talking about insulin, cortisol, thyroid, leptin and ghrelin hormones. The biggest mistake most of us probably are committing while trying to lose weight is overlooking the importance of hormones in the fat-burning process. That’s one major reason why crash dieting would never work for significant weight loss because such a diet would throw all the important fat-burning hormones out of whack and after some initial loss of water weight, the body would just stop burning fat because the hormones wouldn’t cooperate. To put it out rather bluntly, some hormones like insulin make you fat and keep you fat! Hormones are responsible for both weight gain and weight loss and that?s why it?s important to harness the power of fat-burning hormones to drop pounds like crazy, and when you think about balancing hormones, you should think about boosting leptin (which is also called the “satiety hormone) because leptin resistance keeps one in a constant state of hunger and you would constantly crave for food, all through the day, leading to pile up of calories, and creation of more fat in the body. So, in this post, we go into detail on how to boost leptin hormone for weight loss.
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