If you want to know why your weight problem is becoming worse, you don’t have to look far. You are presently being exposed to synthetic environmental hormones on a daily basis. The meats and meat products we eat come from animals that have been given hormones—chickens, turkeys, cattle and fish. Certain groups will tell you there is no proof that these man-made hormones administered to animals have any effect on our bodies. Yet if you go overseas to countries that don’t use these hormones, people are thinner—Europeans especially. Another interesting observation is that chemicals such as pesticides and insecticides have the ability to act like hormones in our bodies. Your food is heavily sprayed with these toxic chemicals. The Environmental Protection Agency has a name for these chemicals; collectively they’re called endocrine disruptors, meaning any chemicals that mimic, block or otherwise disrupt the normal function of hormones.
The aim of this book is to change your viewpoint of the primary goal from losing weight to complete healing of your weak gland—achieving stable weight loss. Let’s focus on the real problem! The key to keeping the weight off is achieving full rejuvenation of your glands and hormones—in other words, doing the program long enough for your body to fully heal. Not completely fixing the true problem (unstable glands) causes the problem to come right back. When certain glands get sick, the hormones they produce can physically dissolve the muscles in your legs, buttocks and arms, leaving you with shrunken, weak and flaccid muscles. These destructive hormones literally eat up muscle proteins, turning them into fat around your midsection. So, instead of using fat reserves for fuel, your body uses muscle proteins, which are turned into sugar as fuel, leaving you fat, flabby, stressed and weak. As a person starts the program and these glands heal, the muscles need to be rebuilt. These muscles are a bit heavier than fat; therefore, the person’s weight might not initially change, even though their clothes feel looser. Before the body will burn fat, it has to build back this lost muscle tissue.
I have found that fat will come off in direct relation to the health of your hormones. Because fat, to the body, is survival (reserve energy), the body will not release this energy until it is sure it’s in safe mode. As can be seen in the following diagram, while healing is occurring it might take some time before your body is healthy enough to burn fat and lose weight. It could take about a month before the weight starts to come off. However, your energy will be up, you’ll feel stronger, have fewer cravings, and your overall mood will improve.
Adipose tissue is only used when absolutely necessary—after the sugar fuel has been exhausted. The body always uses stored sugar or dietary sugar as a priority before tapping into fat fuel. This is the principal reason why people are not losing weight. Most of them are running their bodies on sugar fuel. You must deplete your sugar reserves BEFORE you can tap into your fat reserves.
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