If you can't lose weight check out this article

Russellb97
Russellb97 Posts: 1,057 Member
edited October 6 in Health and Weight Loss
http://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/the-hormone-that-keeps-us-fat.html

The only thing I disagree with is I think we should eat more on Spike Day, about (2XBMR) to ensure a small surplus of calories. Nothing will be stored as fat because some of the extra calories will just get burned off in the metabolizing of them and we have about a 2,000 calorie buffer in Glycogen that gets priority over bodyfat storage. Basically we only store excess calories as bodyfat when glycogen stores are full.

I believe in the law of thermodynamics, but half of this law is "calories out" this is where Spiking and hormones play the biggest role.

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  • brucedelaney
    brucedelaney Posts: 433 Member
    Heh, wonder if the author of that article read your book?
  • Michelle650
    Michelle650 Posts: 218
    Thank you for this!!
  • Russellb97
    Russellb97 Posts: 1,057 Member
    Heh, wonder if the author of that article read your book?

    I message him to ask him just that but I haven't heard back yet.

    He did a great job IMO explaining the role of leptin on metabolism. When I realized that the number 1 way to burn fat was through metabolism (by far) I knew that a healthy metabolism was the most important factor in long term weight loss.
  • SusanRN2b
    SusanRN2b Posts: 106 Member
    I like this!
  • summalovaable
    summalovaable Posts: 287 Member
    bumping this for later!
  • gregpack
    gregpack Posts: 426 Member
    I recently believe I had an experience with Leptin after "cranking up" my diet and giving up my cheat days in an effort to meet a short term weight loss goal. I caught three colds in thirty days, my libido absolutely fell off a cliff, and my resting heart rate dropped as low as 48 bpm. A couple of days of carb refeeding and my heart rate increased back up to normal, in the high sixties and my libido came back. So, I've become a believer in Leptin and incorporating regular "cheat days" or "carb refeeds", which ever you prefer to call them. :)
  • Russellb97
    Russellb97 Posts: 1,057 Member
    I recently believe I had an experience with Leptin after "cranking up" my diet and giving up my cheat days in an effort to meet a short term weight loss goal. I caught three colds in thirty days, my libido absolutely fell off a cliff, and my resting heart rate dropped as low as 48 bpm. A couple of days of carb refeeding and my heart rate increased back up to normal, in the high sixties and my libido came back. So, I've become a believer in Leptin and incorporating regular "cheat days" or "carb refeeds", which ever you prefer to call them. :)

    I lost over 100lbs over 7 years ago and I truly believe this would not have been possible without my weekly Spike Day. I prefer to call them Spike Day's because they do spike hormone levels and all of course metabolism. I lie "refeed" too but a Cheat Day has far too many negative connotations when actually it is really a benefit to long-term weight loss and not "cheating" at all.

    Here's another article and study on how hormones after dieting lead us to gain weight back.
    http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/26/health/post-diet-weight-regain/index.html
  • Russellb97
    Russellb97 Posts: 1,057 Member
    "The results aren't surprising, says Charles Burant, M.D., the director of the University of Michigan Nutrition Obesity Research Center, in Ann Arbor, who was not involved in the research. In fact, he says, the hormone changes seen in the study are a well-known evolutionary survival tactic.
    "Multiple mechanisms have been developed, over eons of evolution, to get you to regain weight once you lose it...to tell your brain you're hungry and to ensure that you don't stop eating," he says. "If you don't have those drives, you wouldn't be alive."

    "Promising research is being done to discover ways to restore hormone levels in people who lose weight, Burant says. Preliminary studies from Columbia University, for example, have found that when dieters are injected with replacement leptin hormones, it's easier for them to maintain or continue weight loss."

    That is from the above article.
    This is why Spiking is so crucial. When done right a day of a calorie surplus and storing some energy raises our leptin hormone naturally without any added drugs. Also when done right, it falls into the Laws of Thermodynamics because 6 days of a deficit and one day of a small surplus still allows for an overall caloric deficit so most people lose 2-3lbs per week.

    Most people the day after Spiking notice in an increase in body temperature and the hunger and cravings vanish. This is a sign that leptin levels are back to normal.
  • carey1932
    carey1932 Posts: 55 Member
    Reading your post got me googling and I found another excellent article (4 pgs long).
    http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/the-facts-on-leptin-faq
    Great reading.
    Thanks for sparking my interest.
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