What do exercise, sleep,
genes, viruses and stress have in common? Nearly everything when it comes to
developing a weight loss regiment and an effective diet plan.
Let's look at some facts.
It is a fact some people have twice as many fat cells of other people according
to Kirsty Spalding, PhD, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, but, she
reiterates that could be a good thing because more fat cells mean less room for
cell growth. Consider this phenomena for a moment. Fewer fat cells in the body
have to room for growth than a larger number of fat cells due to crowding.
Your metabolism also plays
a part in weight gain. The heavier you are the harder it is for your metabolism
to burn fat. If you gain as little as 11 pounds your metabolism can slow down
and send you spiraling into a vicious cycle of gaining weight vs. losing
weight.
Stress is a huge
contributor to gaining fat cells. The hormone cortisol is released with stress
and cortisol is a fat cell maker. Higher stress levels invite the intake
carbohydrate-rich snack foods, which in turn calm stress hormones, but put on
the extra weight faster than you can take it off. Learning to deal with your
stressors goes a long way in reducing the lower and mid-level stress. Exercise,
relaxation and meditation, and controlling which foods you intake can lessen
the impact of the stressful events.
Your significant other
plays a role in your weight. A slim partner tends to have an effect on their
partner, and visa-versa, an overweight partner tends to have an effect on the
other as reported in a study in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study
suggests that if one spouse is obese, the other is 37 percent more likely to
become obese too. The researchers concluded that obesity seems to spread
through social networks.
Sleep like a baby because
sleeping actually gives you a greater sense of fullness. Sleep deprivation
upsets our hormone balance, triggering both a decrease in leptin (which helps
you feel full) and an increase of ghrelin (which triggers hunger). As a result,
we think we're hungry even though we aren't, and so we eat more. Indeed, sleep
may be the cheapest and easiest obesity treatment there is.
Adenoviruses are
responsible for a host of ills, from upper respiratory tract problems to
gastrointestinal troubles. Stem cells, known for their chameleon-like abilities
to transform, also turned into fat cells when infected with the viruses.
"The virus seems to increase the number of fat cells in the body as well
as the fat content of these cells," says Nikhil Dhurandhar, PhD, an
associate professor of infections and obesity at Pennington Biomedical Research
Center, University of North Dakota.
Overall established diet
and weight loss books constantly reinvent themselves to sell copies even though
weight loss plans are similar and have the same objective. Take your carbs in
the form of wholes grains and fiber, avoid trans and saturated fats, eat lean
protein, fill up on veggies, and exercise.
A hypnotic weight loss
session can fit perfectly into any dieting or weight loss plan you use. The
plans are often chosen by personal preference, but they all need one thing to
be successful: a crystal clear intent to stick with it. Most weight loss or
dieting plans are abandoned after a month or two because a clear intent to lose
weight was railroaded by your conscious or subconscious mind. Hypnosis can help
you change and refocus to bring positive results.
Bear in mind however,
hypnosis is no panacea and complacency negates intent. If you fail to stay with
the sessions and use meditation and the methods to retrain and refocus your
subconscious mind, your success rate will be significantly lessened.
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