Leptin: Weight loss’s Super Hormone

Sunday, November 14th, 2010 at 10:35 am

Imagine if you could look like the girl in the picture while eating a sandwich like that. Well you can if you know how to manage your leptin levels.

My what levels?

You probably haven’t heard about leptin since it was just discovered about 20 years ago. The word leptin comes from the greek word leptos which means “thin”. This is probably the most important hormone when it comes to weight loss.

Some of leptin’s funtions are:

1. Stimulate appetite represents.

2. Elevate body temperature to increase energy expenditure.

3. Suppress feeding stilmulantes.

Leptin is also called the anti-starvation hormone. Long before the existence of supermarkets and grocery stores our ancestors had to go days on a low calorie diet until they managed to find food. During these days their body had to save up all the energy it could, so guess who was in charge of this… you got it… good old leptin.

When our body starts receiving little food leptin levels start to drop sending a message to the brain that it needs to save up energy (translation: store fat). When leptin levels rise after a big meal the brain receives a message that says burn fat we have energy to spare.

This is the reason why we have the “yo-yo” effect. After long periods of diet your body just gets used to saving energy. Once you stop your diet and begin to eat normally again, your brain just jumps at the chance of storing fat, just in case another long low calorie period is coming up. This is why you end up gaining more wait than you lost during your diet.

So what is the solution?

With all the information above the solution becomes quite obvious. We have to vary our calorie intake. That is we have to treat ourselves at least once a week to keep leptin levels high.

I told you before it takes a week for leptin levels to drop around 50%. Well it only takes around 12 to 24 hours to bring the back up. This means we have to cheat or treat ourselves once a week during our diet to keep a good weight loss environment going.

This treat day has to have pizza, hamburgers, ice cream, cake, etc. Leptin has a great relationship with carbs. Studies have shown that over eating with just protein wont do the trick… you need carbs. Yes, the same carbs people have been demonizing for years. That is why you shouldn’t take them away from your diet.

Remember to take time away from your diet once a week. It will help you both mentally and physically.

If this all makes sense to you I suggest to pick up a copy of Cheat Your way Thin RIGHT NOW