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How To Counter The Hormones Responsible For Weight Gain

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As you may have heard me say before (and if you haven't, you're going to hear it now!), when you are breaking through a fat loss plateau or trying to get to the Final Phase of leanness, things get a bit murkier than they do with traditional fat loss.

Rather than dieting excessively in order to create a calorie deficit, we are now looking to enter into energy debtŠand we do this with intelligently designed training protocols. That's because keeping energy intake high ensures that Leptin levels don't drop and throw another hormonal monkey wrench into the machinery.

You see, when you're getting very lean or you've hit a plateau, fat loss is not just about calories in vs. calories out. It's about your hormonal environment and the way that affects fat storage, and thereby fat loss.

When you've lost the first 20 or 30 or whatever pounds, you've lost the easy fat. What you'll notice about your body is that you're now holding fat specifically in your trouble areas; and those trouble areas are determined by your specific hormonal environment.

It's not just about energy debt or cardio or to a lesser extent, diet (although all of those things do factor in quite a bit, obviously). When your fat loss has stalled and you're trying to break through that wall, or when you're trying to rid yourself of those last stubborn 5-10 pounds, it's a hormonal battle.

And there is only one way to win: fight hormones with hormones.

So, let's look at the three specific hormones that cause the most common types of regional fat storage.

1. Estrogen The female sex hormone responsible for lower body fat storage patterns.

2. Insulin Or rather, insulin resistance. This nasty little dude heavily influences fat storage in the love handles and lower back area.

3. Cortisol The appropriately dubbed stress hormone is part of the reason you've got more flab than ab.

There you have itŠthose are your enemies!

Now, I want to talk to you about how you can actually increase the production of other hormones through the manipulation of training methods in order to offset the above mentioned bad hormones.

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