Hormones for Rapid Fat Loss Results? What’s it all About?

By daniela
Thursday August 18, 2011

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Women’s weight loss and difficulties with losing weight rely heavily on the hormone balance within the body. Weight gain, and having trouble shedding pounds is often due to an increase of certain hormones, such as progesterone and estrogen in the body.

On the other hand, there are hormones that will help produce rapid loss of fat, so to make your weight loss plan smarter, simply increase the levels of the fat burning hormones in your body.

What Hormones Work Together in the Body to Burn Fat?

The following six hormones work together in the body to help you burn fat:

Thyroid
Adrenal
Testosterone
Human growth hormone (HGH)
Insulin
Glucagons

Since the fat burning hormones are weaker than the fat storing hormones, you need to maintain a careful balance between diet, exercise, and sleep to keep the fat burning hormones at optimum levels. Here are the keys to keep those fat burning hormones going strong:

Increase Your Fat Burning Hormones Through Diet

Your liver is the organ in charge of activating the hormone levels in your body. By taking dietary steps to keep your liver healthy, you can keep the fat burning hormones at increased production, while also reducing the production of fat storing hormones.

To keep your liver healthy, avoid drinking too much alcohol, try not to overindulge in animal proteins, and avoid refined carbohydrates, because these will block fat burning hormones. Instead, eat plenty of vegetables high in amino acids, and nuts, beans, and legumes high in protein and healthy fats.

Increase Your Fat Burning Hormones Through Exercise

Exercising on a regular basis can help cleanse your body, by burning fat and building muscle. Your body will produce more of the fat burning hormones when it is worked and “told” to do so. According to the Doctor’s Exercise Journal, Aerobic or cardio exercise will burn 25% muscle and 75% fat, while Anaerobic or strength training/weight lifting exercises will burn 100% fat.

As aerobic exercises are less demanding on the muscles, they are ideal for almost everyone. Weight lifting exercises are more intense, making them harder for some. But, don’t give up on strength training. If you are a beginner, do what you can and you’ll eventually work up to more reps and weight. For fat loss, you will have to spend more time on aerobics than you would on weight training anyway, but the best option is to use a combination of the two.

Increase Your Fat Burning Hormones Through Sleep

When you perform a strength training workout, the liver releases HGH. While you sleep, the liver then turns this into an insulin-like hormone that will help keep your blood sugar levels stable while you are sleeping.

This process takes seven hours, at least. If you do not sleep at least seven hours every night, your body will not be able to properly adjust the hormone levels so you will not burn fat while you sleep, and your body will not properly recover from the high stress workout.

By maintaining a healthy diet, regular exercise, and a good night’s sleep every night, you can increase your levels of fat burning hormones, while decreasing the levels of the stronger fat storing hormones in your body. Having enough of these hormones makes women’s weight loss even easier.