Losing Weight – Three Point Plan
Twenty or more years ago you could just eat anything you wanted and the calories just burned up and your weight stayed the same. No longer? Well, as we get older, metabolism slows down and just doesn’t burn up those calories like it used to. And all those leftover calories turn into fat.
Obviously if you burn up more calories than you take in you will then burn up some fat and thus lose weight. The three parts of a good weight loss plan include:
1. Hormone Replacement Therapy, which replaces the hormones that help to increase metabolism and thereby help to burn fat.
2. Move that body around – exercise!
3. Sufficient nutritional supplements and minerals and a good diet ensures the body gets what it needs to survive.
As a person ages, some glands of the body produce insufficient hormones. Those that affect metabolism and body weight can be in insufficient supply. Hormone Replacement Therapy or HRT replaces the lacking hormones to a youthful level. Thyroid hormone particularly regulates metabolism, so if that hormone is lacking, weight problems ensue. The hormone levels can be different in different people.
It is also important to restore levels of estrogen and testosterone to a youthful level where those hormones are lacking. And Human Growth Hormone has been shown to affect metabolism. An important point of HRT is that the hormones used for replacement must be bioidentical hormones – that is to say, they must duplicate the hormones the body produces naturally, not synthetic. HRT is prescribed and administered by a medical doctor after tests are done to determine how much and which hormones are needed.
A sensible exercise program is absolutely necessary to any weight loss plan. Exercise not only increases metabolism, but also keeps the body in working order in other ways. As regards weight loss, exercise simply burns up more calories and helps take that fat off while building up muscle.
The third point of the program is appropriate diet. A good nutritionist is necessary to determine what constitutes a proper diet for each individual. Even if you take in plenty of calories, they are not necessarily the right kind of calories, and in addition a body may be starved for essential vitamins and minerals.
A sensible program that includes these three points and made individually for each person’s needs by a medical doctor and nutritionist and exercise specialist would be the best approach. One could experience not only weight loss, but a vast improvement in other aspects of one’s life.
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