Losing weight is not solely dependent on exercise and nutrition, understanding your hormones and how to work with them is also a huge part of weight loss success.
Healthy eating is not about strict dietary limitations, staying unrealistically thin or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Healthy eating is about feeling better, having more energy, improving your outlook. and stabilizing your mood by choosing the right foods to give your body the nutrition it needs to perform all of its daily functions. Eat properly and you can increase your metabolism, improve and balance hormone levels, boost energy, balance mood, and increase your brainpower.
So, what exactly does eat properly mean? At each meal, focus on eating lean proteins, gluten-free carbohydrates that are low on the glycemic index with good fiber content, and incorporating healthy fat sources. This approach to eating stabilizes blood sugar, helps maintain or boost energy and increases the body’s’ production of glucagon – a hormone that burns fat, and opposes the action of insulin, which signals the body to store fat and increases appetite and cravings. Incorporating fiber in each meal also increases adiponectin levels, a hormone that signals the body to burn fat.