There is an eternal debate about whether or not calories ultimately control fat loss. Many wonder if the type of food you eat is more important than the amount of calories you eat. In any case, there are more powerful entities here: hormones.
After all, hormones don’t really follow the whole calorie constraint model. In fact, one study showed that men sitting on a couch could gain muscle and burn fat when given testosterone.
Thus, here is how to make sure your hormones don’t prevent you from losing weight:
1. Keep your cardiovascular system healthy: Surprisingly, an unhealthy cardiovascular system can have a negative impact on your entire hormonal system. This mainly happens when your blood pressure is too high. So make sure you exercise hard, take some aspirin and get on medication if you doctor thinks this is right.
2. Avoid HRT: You should avoid hormone replacement therapy unless your doctor thinks it’s necessary. You see, if you take hormones above and beyond what your body naturally produces, it will backfire. Your system will crash in addition to a whole range of other negative effects in your body.
3. Become more insulin sensitive: Doing so will divert more calories to your active tissues. And if more calories are going to your active tissues, less go to your fat tissues. Thus, increasing insulin sensitivity is a great way to burn more fat.
4. Resistance train: Resistance training is the best way to get your body producing as many hormones as possible. Now you don’t have to become a fitness freak here, but at the very least resistance train two times per week.
5. Go to your doctor for a test: Your body may be producing low levels of hormones for reasons out of your control. And going to your doctor is a great way to make sure this isn’t happening to you. After all, the last thing you want is to not be able to lose fat because of some fixable hormonal imbalance.
Mastering your hormones is a great way to lose more fat, period. If you can get your body to produce as many hormones as possible naturally, you will be able to get the physique of your dreams!
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