New Life Wellness & Weight Loss

WEIGHT GAIN: IS IT HORMONAL?

Are you struggling to lose weight? One of great blessings we have from living in a first world nation is that few of us have to worry about being able to eat regular meals. In fact, we have the opposite problem. Food is so abundant that many of us eat more than we need to, and that consequently turns into gaining weight. Sometimes, that weight gain is enough to interfere with our sense of self-esteem about our looks; it may even be serious enough to impact our health.

WEIGHT GAIN AND WEIGHT LOSS

One of great blessings we have from living in a first world nation is that few of us have to worry about being able to eat regular meals. In fact, we have the opposite problem. Food is so abundant that many of us eat more than we need to, and that consequently turns into gaining weight. Sometimes, that weight gain is enough to interfere with our sense of self-esteem about our looks; it may even be serious enough to impact our health.

A WEALTH OF INFLUENCES

Your hormones are best thought of as “chemical messengers” that are created in your endocrine glands amongst other organs, and perform a variety of different functions in your body. In many ways, hormones can influence your day-to-day life by telling your body what to do. Hormones can make you more active and ready to fight or run, as in the case of the hormone adrenaline, which prepares your body for extreme action. Hormones can influence whether or not you sleep quickly and restfully, which is what melatonin can do.

Hormones can also regulate your feelings of hunger as well as well as how many calories your body uses up over the course of a day, versus how many it chooses to store as fat. In other words, the hormones in your body can also affect the efficiency of your body at creating fat or burning calories. Since everyone has different hormonal levels, some people may burn up fat more aggressively, despite eating a lot, whereas others may watch their diet carefully and still find that their body tries to convert as much as it can over to fat.

FIND A PERSONAL SOLUTION

This is why one of the best ways to lose weight is not to simply follow the latest diet fad. Instead, get a consultation and find out which factors—such as hormonal—may be playing a key role in weight gain and/or weight loss. Then take the steps to ensure that these factors are taken into consideration as you formulate a safe, healthy and permanent solution to losing weight and keeping it off.

Call our experienced team at New Life Wellness & Weight Loss today for help.