Originally published September 27 2005
The truth behind the diet hype
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Loree Taylor Jordan discusses the body's many resistances to weight loss, from hormone imbalances to metabolic dysfunction, and ways that people can overcome their bodies' resistance to weight loss.
Loree Taylor Jordan, author of Fat & Furious: Overcome Your Body's Resistance To Weight Loss Now, is a holistic health expert and educator as well as a reformed dieting maniac.
# You would really like to be the weight listed on your driver's license # You have eaten so much tuna cats are following you around?
# You have so many diet books you can open you own bookstore?
What should I do if I fit the profile of a food addict?
# How do you know if you have "low thyroid" (which lowers metabolism)?
Been there, eaten that If you are overeating to avoid and numb out painful emotions than another diet is futile.
Dealing with the underlying negative emotional patterns are the only way to weight loss success.
If an individual does not have healthy tools to deal with emotional conflict and pain then shaming and belittling them into losing weight will only cause more eating to create more "protection" in the form of fat.
Thyroid hormones control your metabolic rate and this affects you ability to loose weight.
It can happen that you are not an emotional eater, but truly has a hormonal imbalance that is preventing them from losing weight such as hypothyroid.
Worse yet, high cortisol suppresses the production of DHEA, an adrenal hormone that is anabolic, meaning it builds and repairs muscle and other tissues.
The female hormones, estrogen and progesterone balance each other in a delicate dance.
When a woman has too much estrogen relative to progesterone, she tends to gain weight, have fluid retention, have chocolate and sweet cravings.
A person's blood type, metabolic profile is just a few to be taken in consideration for successful weight loss approach.
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