The Hormone Revolution Weight-Loss Programs The delicate balance of the effects of diet, exercise, and supplements on your body’s hormones is at the heart of my Hormone Revolution program. You will benefit from my years of working with elite athletes in designing an exercise program for maximum effect and minimal time commitment. In this...
Fat too many people start their diets with a “bang” by rapidly losing several pounds, only to quickly crash and end up binge eating and regaining all the weight they lost-and then some. To avoid this, you should think of your diet as a journey to weight loss. You are traveling from your current...
Weight Loss Programs, Fat Loss, Your body is designed to resist fat loss. In the early days of mankind, the ability to store fat was essential to survival. Primitive man never knew when his next meal would be and needed a healty stronge of fat in order to survive for long periods of time...
Weight loss and Stress, When you are under too much stress, your body releases “stress hormones” such as cortisol, which lead to increased muscle loss and fat storage. There are two main types of stress : psychological stress, which results from worrying too much and not taking enough breaks from your hectic lifestyle, and...
Weight loss program and medication, Many of the madications prescribed to both men and women for common ailments can disrupt our hormonal systems. These are side effects that are usually ignored or even forgotten by many medical doctors. In many cases, alternative drugs that do not disrupt our hormones are available and you can...
Sleep and weight loss programs, Sleep is extremely important for harnessing your fat-burning hormones. When you slep, a series of complex chemical messengers in your body signals your brain that more testosterone and human growth hormone production are necessary. Neglecting sleep will distrupt these messengers, denying your body the fat-burning benefits of the increased...
Weight loss programs booster energy, A lack of energy can be a major obstacle to sticking with any weight-loss program that requires such as the hormonerevolution program. And fatigue doesn’t always result from a simple lack of sleep. Many people find that they become more fatigued when they stop exercising for a prolonged periode...
Weight loss programs with libido, There is a very strong connection between fat-burning hormones and your libido. Of course, xxx hormones have especially potent effect on your libido: if you have a healthy testosterone/estrogen balance, you also will have a healthy libido. As explained later, your libido can be one of the best markers...
Weight loss programs Exercises, Before you make any other changes to your daily routine, you should begin your weight-loss program by exercising; it is the essential first step. Exercise is the key to putting your hormones into a fat-burning mode. After that, diet and other lifestyle choices will fall into place quickly. Controlling the...
Weight Training Exercise and Weight loss programs, Getting the instruction of a well-qualified health professional or a personal trainer is particularly important with this exercise program. It is important to make sure you use the correct technique when weight training so that you get the maximum benefit from the exercise and don’t injure yourself...
Weight loss programs, I usually recommend that my patients join a gym whenever possible-especially when starting-rather than buy exercise equipment for home use. Studies have shown that people tend to exercise more and comply better, and more consistently, with a program when they work out at a gym instead of at home. Many...
Dragging yourself to the gym for the first time can be very challenging, and it provokes fear in many of my patients. One way to combat these feelings is to find a training buddy. You and your buddy can help stimulate and motivate each other as well as share the responsibility of actually getting...
Hormonally Charged Exercise, Weight loss programs Exercises can be one of the most frustrating aspect of losing weight. Many of my patient complain to me that have spent countless hours exercising and yet have not lost a pound of body fat or even any weight. In fact, some people yet have gain weight from...
Early – Morning exercise Weight Loss Exercises and Weight loss programs, By fat the best time to exercise is in the morning, when your testosteronce levels are at their highest, you can be sure that you are burning calories from fat rather than muscle. The testosteronce boost you get from your workout also will...
Weight loss programs and Stomach, There is one inflexible rule for exercise timing: work out when your stomach is empty-4 hours after your last large meal or 3 hours after a smaller meal or snack. When your stomach is empty, your insulin levels are very low. Because one of insulin’s main roles is to...
In this program, you need to find a balance between aerobics and weight training. These two main types of exercise have extremely different effects on your body and your hormones. Unlike many other programs, the Hormone Revolution program emphasize weight training because it has powerful effects on building and preserving muscle and boosting your...
Aerobic exercises and Weight loss programs is defined as low-to moderate-intensity exercise that works the larger muscle in your body, performed for long durations of time. The aerobic exercise most beneficial to fat-burning hormone stimulation are those that employ your bigger muscle groups, such as the quad muscle in your legs, because you are...
Aerobic Exercises Aerobic Exercises, Some exercise machines, such as stair climbers and treadmills, can help you gauge the intensity of your workout with their heart rate monitors. Make sure you set these machines for “fat-burning” mode, which will let you know when your heart rate is at 50 to 60 percent of its capacity-the...
Weight training is a resistance exercise that is, by definition, the opposite of aerobics. Specifically, it is high-intensity, short-duration exercise expressly meant for building and preserving muscle mass and increasing strength. Weight training is often neglected and misunderstood by most people trying to lose weight and fat. Most dieters focus entirely on aerobic exercise,...
Weight Training, Exercise Splits Weight loss programs and Schedules, A cardinal rule about weight lifting is that you must give each body part (muscle group) at least four days of rest before exercising it again. It is dangerous to exercise your whole body, working out all muscle groups three times a week. This will...
Pyramid: Always begin with a strong warm-up set. Then, using the weight that is your max lift, do 1 or 2 reps. Every 2 or 3 reps during the rest of the 10 or 11 reps in this set, use progressively lighter weights. While gradually decreasing the weights, be sure not to use weights...
In general, it is ideal if you can concentrate on weight training (muscle building) one day and cardio (fat burning) on another so that you don’t exhaust yourself and create an imbalance among your hormones. Because each of these forms of exercise works differently within your body and hormone systems, it is important to...
Weight Loss Breakfast Choices Breakfast and Weight loss programs, If you choose to make breakfast you magic window meal after a morning workout, you have many options. Most traditional breakfast are high in both starch and protein. Try to eliminate or greatly limit all sources of saturated fats from you breakfast, such as pork...
Weight Loss Supplement Weight loss programs and weight loss programs, If you have walked into a health food vitamin store recently, you have probably noticed the rows upon rows of shelves with all sorts of different dietary supplements. The variety and expense of most supplements can be extremely overwhelming, leaving many people to worry...
If you follow the Hormone Revolution weight loss programs closely, you will be eating a wide variety of healthy foods, such as vegetables, fruits, and lean sources of protein that will give your body many of the nutrients it needs to function optimally. Your diet, in conjunction with your Hormone Revolution cardio and weight...
Multivitamin and Multimineral for weight loss Programs Weight loss programs, If you are dieting and restricting the total number of calories you are eating, the risk of a deficiency becomes even greater. Also when exercising regularly (i.e., following the Hormone Revolution Exercise Plan), your body might need extra vitamins and minerals because of increased...
Essential Fatty Acids For Weight Loss Programs As you will recall from before, the omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids that are essential to your body’s functioning can reduce the fattening effects of insulin and focus your hormone on fat burning rather than fat storage. Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids will stabilize your blood sugar and insulin, particularly benefiting...
Hormone Boster in Weight Loss Programs Weight loss Programs, the second category of supplement consists of those that can be used to overcome weight-loss plateaus-the hormone boosters. After a few months of achieving results, many people notice a decline or full stop in improvement on their weight loss natural they have hit a plateau....
Creatine Build Muscle and Burn Fat Weight loss programs and Creatine is a nutrient produced in your body and stored in your muscles as a “muscle food” that provides quick energy reserves for your muscles and helps your body maintain high levels of fat-burning hormones while lifting weights or doing other intense exercise. A...
Phosphatidyl Serine for Weight Loss Programs Phosphatidyl serine (PS) is a lipid produced in your brain and is widely available as a natural supplement derived from soybeans. The supplement was first introduced as a brain nutrient to help boost memory and cognitive abilities and is sold as a prescription drug in Europe for treating...
Androdiol Weight loss programs and Androdiol is the brand name of the prohormone 4-androstenediol (4AD). Prohormone are naturally occurring compounds in the body and are sold over the counter in supplement form. Prohormones are highly effective at promoting temporary boosts of fat-burning hormones such as testosterone. Unlike PS, which works through the nervous system...
Androdiol Weight loss programs, Men should take 100 to 200 milligrams of Androdiol 20 to 30 minutes before working out, three to four times per week. Those who are using a sublingual (under the tongue) Androdiol lozenge can decrease their dosage to 12 to 25 milligrams. Androdiol users should cycle their doses, taking it...
Hormone Booster Hormone-boosting supplements should enhance your diet and exercise program and help you overcome weight-loss plateaus, but they are not enough to correct long-term hormonal imbalances that result from aging. For some people, taking PS or Androdiol results in excessively strong hormone boosts that greatly decrease fatigue or soreness after exercise, promotes sudden...
Thermogenics Weight loss programs and Thermogenics are natural supplements that stimulate your nervous system and can give you more energy for exercising. By raising your body temperature, they actually increase fat burning within your body. Until recently, the key ingredient in most thermogenic formulas has been ephedra, also known as ma huang. Ephedra is...
Most weight-loss drugs or supplements work though only one mechanism, but thermogenics help you burn fat, lose weight, and break through weight-loss plateaus in four important ways: they increase your metabolism, preserve muscle, decrease your appetite, and increase your energy. Keep in mind that you still have to stay on the Hormone Revolution Weight...
Ephedra Weight loss programs and Ephedra, Recently, as a result of an increasing number of reports of serious health risks involving ephedra, more and more supplement companies are removing it from their products. The food and Drug Administration is pressuring companies to stop selling it, and many states are considering a ban on ephedra...
Guarana Weight loss programs and Guarana, a berry grown in South America, is a good source of the most common thermogenic agent, caffeine. Some thermogenic formulas use kola nut as an alternative source of caffeine. By it self, caffeine is a relatively mild thermogenic-you might notice a small increase in your body temperature after...
Green Tea From long time ago, human had use green tea for Weight loss programs, One of the most healthful thermogenic ingredients found in many formulas is green tea extract. Studies have shown that green tea and its extract have strong anti-cancer properties and can improve cardiovascular health. But the main reason that green...
Forskolin For Weight Loss Weight loss programs and Forskolin (coleus forskohli) has been used for thousands of years in traditional Indian Ayurvedic medicine. Forskolin has been shown to be effective in boosting thyroid hormone and may help elevate testosterone levels. It also has somewhat of a calming, relaxing effect, which helps balance out the...
Thermogenics for Weight Loss Programs The first rule for thermogenics use to get your diet, lifestyle, and exercise habits in order before taking them. The second rule is to consult with your physician before taking them. I recommend thermogenic only to peole who have already been following the Hormone Revolution Program carefully and who...
When used correctly by generally healthy people, thermogenics that do not contain ephedra can be like rocket fuel for the final few pounds of fat that you are trying to lose. They are especially useful for people whose progress is impeded by fatigue or hunger. If you are already following the diet and exercise...
Finding ways to monitor your progress is an extremely important aspect of sticking with your program. We look at ourselves in the mirror every day and often don’t notice the small decreases in weight and fat that are slowly occurring, causing many people to think they are not making progress or to fail to...
Weight Loss Plateaus Weight loss programs, No matter how consistent your diet, exercise, and supplement program is, your body will build up a tremendous defense against hormone stimulation and a fortified resistance against further weight and fat loss-a plateau. The trick to overcoming this is to identify as soon as possible whether you have...
Exercise Log Weight loss programs, An exercise log is a journal that records your compliance with you exercise program. Carry this log with you whenever you to go to the gym, and look back on it on days that you don’t exercise to look for holes or weaknesses in your training. In this log,...
When many people begin formally exercising on a set program for the first time, they often get discouraged either by the difficulty of the program or by a lack of results. Several of these problems are due to improper technique or overtraining and can be easily corrected. Following are some tips for diagnosing and...
Major and minor injuries can easily derail any weight-loss program: pain can quickly cause you to lose your motivation. But both can be overcome and actually remedied by fitness and exercise. At some point in life, most people eventually develop some problem with their joints or spine, especially as they age. Sometimes you can...
Most people cheat on their diets far more than they realize. If you are cheating on your diet more than once or twice per week, your progress might be greatly slowed down. Remember, cheating on the Hormone Revolution program not only means that you are eating the wrong foods but also that you are...
Weight loss programs, Of course, the primary indicator of your success on the Hormone Revolution program will be your weight. When beginning on the eating plan, you should use a standard scale to measure your weight every day, at the same time of day. Because your weight can fluctuate throughout the day, you should...
Good progress is marked by decreasing body-fat weight and a constant or decreasing lean body weight. This means that you are losing fat while gaining or preserving muscle mass. An ideal body-fat percentage for men is 10 to 15 percent and 15 to 20 percent for women. An ideal goal to achieve this result...
You Are Not Losing Any Body-Fat Weight: if you lose any body-fat weight for two weeks in a row in spite of the regular exercise and dieting recommended in Chapter 2, you should take a careful look at your diet logs: there may be hidden sources of calories in your food. Here are some...
Extreme Hunger and Insomnia at Night: many people on diets find themselves starving and unable to sleep. Bedtime is when we are often most vulnerable to cheating on our diets. I have designed my program the best way possible to avoid this problem, but if you are finding it difficult to sleep at night...
Modern technology has created many new inventions that can be useful for tracking your progress on the Hormone Revolution program. Body-fat scales, calorie-tracking machines, and the Internet can help you measure more accurately how your program is working and determine what you need to do to make better progress.
Weight loss programs and Body-fat scales, Most people track their progress while on a diet and exercise program the old-fashioned way-by using their regular weighing scale. While this is efficient for the first four weeks of the program, a regular weight scale will become an increasingly inaccurate measure of your progress as your diet...
Body-Fat Scales The solution to these problems is to measure your body-fat percentage-the total amount of fat in your body as a percentage of your total body weight-instead of your weight. You can decrease your body-fat percentage either by losing fat without losing muscle or by gaining muscle while retaining fat. As previously mentioned,...
Fortunately, there are less expensive and more convenient devices to measure your body-fat percentage. Once company has developed weighing scales that measure your body-fat percentage through bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). These scales cost between $70 and $200, depending on the model, and are very easy to use. After entering your age, weight, gender, and...
Measuring the precise number of calories you are burning while you exercise and also during the nonexercising portions of the day can be invaluable for tracking your progress on the Hormone Revolution program. In the past, we have had to estimate how many calories we burn, based on the types of exercise we perform...
Weight loss programs, The internet can be an extremely useful tool for accessing additional health and fitness information and also for enhancing the usefulness of the equipment you use for exercising. While it is not wise to rely on medical information disseminated from the Internet because of the unreliability of its sources and the...
The hormone revolution weight loss program is a complete lifestyle program. This chapter will discuss how many choices in your daily life influence the hormones that contribute to fat burning and aging. Stress and medications can influence the effectiveness of your fat-burning hormones. In ths chapter you will learn how to adapt your optimal...
Leading a stimulating lifestyle that allows you to set new goals and meet new challenges is healthy for your body. Striving to excel in the workplace, sports, relationship, or any area of life is a generally positive way to lead your life emotionally and physically. As you participate in challenging and even competitive activities,...
However, you also must be careful to relieve stress only in healthy ways. You should never attempt to relieve stress by consuming by exercise amounts of alcohol or smoking cigarettes. In additional to the possibility of dependence and abuse, using these substance imposes physical stresses on your body. Calories from alcohol are easily converted...
When you are prescribed a prescription medication, your doctor or pharmacist probably makes you aware of any side effect that the drug may have. You and your doctor probably discuss the contradictions appearing on the label or any other medications you may be taking. But one thing you probably don’t discuss is an issue...
Weight loss Programs, Your body has complex cycle that cause your hormone levels to fluctuate over a twenty-four-hour period. Healthy men generally wake up in the morning with an erection, mainly because testosterone levels are at their highest after a good night’s sleep. Testosterone levels are at their lowest at night, and men as...
Hormones levels are one of the most reliable and important markers of aging. One of the reason why weight and fat loss become difficult as we get older is that levels of testosterone and growth hormones decrease as we age and our insulin system function decline. People who exacerbate this effect by following unhealthy...
You have probably noticed that fat and weight loss become extremely difficult for woman as they get older. Around the time of menopause, women are put on a hormonal rollercoaster that often leads to rapid weight gain. The diet, exercise, and supplement programs in this book will eliminate and reduce weight gain, but women...
Weight loss programs and Estrogen can in fact have many health benefits when given to the right group of menopausal women. Estrogen replacement therapy is used to treat hot flashes, reduce the risk of heart disease, slow bone loss, and treat other symptomps of menopause. However, as mentioned, improver estrogen replacement therapy can increase...
Weight loss programs Many postmenopausal women do need some sort of estrogen replacement therapy to treat the symptomps of menopause. Natural estrogen replacement therapy involving phytoestrogens can actually relieve hot flashes and lower the risk of heart disease and maybe osteoporosis while minimizing many of the fattening side effect of synthetic estrogens. Phytoestrogens are...
Surprisingly, I have found that more woman are in need of testosterone replacement therapy than men. Even before menopause, a woman’s production of testosterone drops almost to zero. Unfortunately, most women are only given estrogen to make up for this deficiency. But testosterone and estrogen work best when they are both present in the...
As they get older, men suffer much of the same weight-gain problems as women do. The hormonal fat-burning advantage they have as young men slowly deteriorates with age. Some people also call this male equivalent of menopause “manopause”, and a new scientific name for it is male androgen insufficiency syndrome. But it is most...
Weight loss programs, For women, it is very easy to tell they are in menopause because of obvious signs such as a lack of menstrual periods and hot flashes. But, for men, this is not the case. Andropause comes on very slowly, so must men don’t even know they have it. Unfortunately, many of...
Weight loss programs and Arimidex (anastrzole) is one of the most effective choices for fighting the adverse symptoms of andropause, such as fatigue, lowered libido, depression, and weight gain. This is a drug approved by the FDA for treating breast cancer in women, but I have been a pioneer in its use as a...
Weight loss progams and Testostoterone, For some men Arimidex is not enough to combat andropause, and they may require some other method of increasing testosterone. Testosterone has been fasely accused of being a dangerous anabolic steroid that causes overly aggressive behavior, and only recently has testosterone replacement or augmentation therapy become more widely accepted....
Weight Loss programs, The over-the-counter prohormone supplements mentioned in Chapter 4 can be used in cycles during andropause to get brief “pulses” of testosterone before sex or exercise. In particular, 100 to 200 milligrams of oral Androdiol (4-androstenediol) pills or 25 milligrams of sublingual Androdiol two or three times a week can give...
Weight Loss programs, In general, you should feel quite safe and comfortable about boosting your testosterone levels with Arimidex, Androgel, or over-the-counter prohormones. But hormones are powerful tools, and they need to be administered carefully. Weigh loss programs, In the past, testosterone has been blamed for causing prostate problems, such as prostate cancer or...
