The New Mother's Brother Finds a Solution for Women's Weight Control

THE NEW MOTHER'S BROTHER FINDS a SOLUTION for WOMEN'S WEIGHT CONTROL

So I’m home and onto Google.

So this mother had been fighting for two years since the birth of her baby and was losing the battle to get her figure back, (like so many other mothers). Too many distractions with family and especially that recent important little addition, the little bundle of joy.

To make things worse she had this role model brother who is admired by tens of thousands, had degrees in the health industry and was a mentor with a film star following on the internet.

How depressing to have a brother like that; who had attempted to help you with your weight loss problem but failed every time. You would reckon, (being a male), he probably thought that she was just not putting in the required 100% effort …. you know what these super-fit athlete type guys are like ….. they slam their chests with their fists and yell “Ahhhh !” and then bench-press 250lbs. Girls are just so frail and  ………..

Well, you get the picture.

But this guy turns out to be one of the good ones. He can’t put his finger on the reason why his (usually) successful mentoring, delivered personally to her, won’t work on his sister, but it is always there in the back of his mind and he isn't about to give up.

He was always keeping his ear to the ground when it came to cutting edge research and information about the human body anyway.

Well he was looking at some new “research stuff” this particular day and stumbled upon something about a master hormone that controls weight (loss) in both men and women. It controls 100% of your body’s ability to burn fat and it’s name is Leptin and this hormone is common to both men and women …..

BUT !!

...... apparently it works in different ways in women than it does in men  …….. and so “the brother of the new mother” finally realized that THIS is where he had been going wrong in his attempt to help his sister.

Apparently this hormone Leptin has the ability to speed up a persons metabolism or slow it down; depending on what your levels are. The high level situation signals your body to burn fat  ……

(YES !!)

 …… and low levels lead to a slow metabolism and the signal then changes to “store that fat !! … we might need it for energy later”.

Now the next bit is really weird !!!

I mean .…. it is really weird and spins you out  …..  particularly if you’re a girl.

You see researchers have recently found that women naturally have twice as much of this fat burning hormone than men which (logically) means that they have twice the capacity to have a high metabolism and therefore twice the capacity to burn fat   ….. YES ?? ....... that is logical isn't it!

Well that has to be good news doesn't it  .......  that women have it all over men in regards to their Leptin hormone supremacy.

Did I say that was the good news ? I did ….. didn’t I.

So now to the bad news. It was discovered in very recent research why this good news did not support women's weight loss objectives. Why women struggle so much more than men when they try to lose that unattractive fat.

HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS

Firstly …. women (can be) 3 times less responsive to the signal to burn fat. It is a condition known as “Leptin Resistance”; even though ladies have more Leptin in many, many cases a ladies body just isn’t using its fat burning potential.

Do you have soft, squishy fat (that looks a bit like cottage cheese) around your problem areas? Well you are one of the Leptin Resistors for sure.

How is that for bad luck, hey ?

But wait, there is more.

Secondly, when you diet, your Leptin levels drop twice as much AND twice as fast as compared to men. Just not fair is it ladies. And as I’ve already explained, when Leptin drops so does your metabolism and those little signals start happening where they tell your body to start storing fat.

This is what happens when you hear that some poor lady (lets call her “the sample lady”) has had a weight loss “plateau” and can’t seem to go any further, while a man on the exact same program just keeps on shedding.

But wait, there is more.

Bad news I’m afraid. Then the poor “sample lady” will give up her diet because of sheer frustration and the start of what could end up being a state of depression and she has a rebound weight gain !

How can that be so ?

Well it happened because of the way the Leptin dropped off so significantly and made our “sample ladies” metabolism even slower than before she started dieting. It’s a bit like withdrawal symptoms isn’t it. And this can be happening when the poor “sample lady” has been eating next to nothing.
So from all this information, what is the problem in a nutshell.

Well, when it comes to being a woman you have this “signal resistance” or you could call it “signal insensitivity” when it comes to the effect Leptin has on your attempts to lose weight; your body’s fat burning signal is just not responding, even though you have twice as much Leptin as the men.

This slowing down of your metabolism caused by the rapid drop in Leptin levels is the reason so many women plateau out and have weight gains, sometimes massive weight gains.

FACT : Unfortunately ladies ..... evolution has made it more difficult for women to lose weight.

SO BACK TO THE BROTHER OF THE MOTHER …….

The sister of the brother still has a young child in tow. She has tried (under the mentoring of her brother) to lose weight and failed.

Brother is frustrated and can’t understand why his successful methods won’t work on his sister.

HERE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT HIS SISTER'S BODY

The sisters body doesn’t know or care about her desires to be a slim attractive lady again, it doesn’t care about sexy waistlines or looking good in skinny jeans.

Her body has its priorities in the right order, (so it thinks). Her Leptin's signal is turned off because her body knows this unattractive fat provides stored energy and warmth to ensure she can survive and protect that little bundle of joy who happens to be the next generation.

So how did this story get to have a happy ending ?

Well I’m still immersed in researching this “stuff” and although I (COULD) continue on with this story here I’m going to end it now and you can look for my next installment sometime in the next few weeks (maybe), when I've had a chance to piece all this together.

WHEN IT COMES TO WEIGHT LOSS ....... WOMEN HAVE BEEN FRAMED

The Story :  Hi Readers, this blog is about a journey of discovery about a way for women to use their own unique metabolism to manage their weight issues. A metabolism that is distinctly different from men and therefore needs to be managed differently from what most weight management programs are teaching in 2016.

Well now that I've made that bold and controversial statement about women being framed and before I start describing the the information I continue to collect about this great "cover up", I'll give you my story about how I came to find out the truth about just how different women are to men and have a harder time losing weight than do men. (Well at least those that haven't "discovered" this information do).

But first I'll "come out"!  .....  you see, I'm a guy  ... 

...... so why is a guy trying to pass this information on to women ? Please ....... please read on ...... yes I'm a guy but this IS about the ladies! ONLY the ladies! and you will read about how this subject has got a guy so interested in something to do with ladies that isn't related to that obvious interest men usually have in the opposite sex.

This story is about how I (a guy) came to be writing a Blog about women and dieting  ...... about a dieting program that is STRICTLY for women   .......  this does not; cannot work on men ..... it all has to do with some subtle differences in the sexes  .... a bit like they discuss in that book "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus"  ....  yes it is true; we are different in even more ways than that book discusses!


SO ON WITH THE STORY ...... a story about 3 female family members at a family gathering and how I eaves dropped their conversation about a new weight loss program they were each well into. Actually there were two of them well into it and the other one was getting very excited about what she was hearing. That excitement got louder and louder and that was what caught my attention.

Before I go on though; "mums the word! I'm not going to disclose the relationship ... I value my life! I think I would be in big trouble if they new they were the "guinea pigs" of a story about weight loss that was being zoomed around the internet  ....... well I hope enough ladies read it to get it to "zoom speed".

So here I am at this family gathering, bored as anything. The other guys are on the patio talking about fishing .... I hate fishing ... even more boring than sitting alone at a family gathering. Besides I don't mind my own company so I don't mind being that weird guy sitting over there by the ladies reading a magazine. Yes I was flipping through a magazine about MY passion .... MOUNTAIN BIKES .... a passion I share with my 2 sons.

I'd moved inside because it is hard to concentrate on reading when there are about 6 or 7 under 10 year old's yelling and screaming around the back yard. I'm sure that was why the ladies were inside also; even their chatter couldn't drown out the little ones. Now within ear-shot of  of the conversation the ladies were having I heard mutterings that included what they weren't eating and what exercise they didn't like and then something about diet. I thought to myself, "oh ! Typical", because I had noticed (out of the corner of my eye) that all 3 ladies were a little "portly". (See I told you I wasn't going to divulge anything about this relationship ... I'd be in some real trouble I'd expect if they new they were described as "portly").


Now none of these 3 lovely ladies I was eaves-dropping on was WAY overweight, but they are very attractive women and I think it can be a shame that some people prioritize something / someone else in their lives over their own well-being. And this was probably the situation with these ladies, as it is with so many people. In my opinion I follow the advice I remember reading from a past mentor in my life and that is that keeping a healthy mind and a healthy body (weight) is a number one priority as it is not possible to tackle other roadblocks in your life if you can't manage your own health. What is that saying? "If you can't look after yourself how do you think you can do a good job looking after someone else"?

Wow .... going off track here a bit am I? Still it is worth a ponder.

So I gathered that the talk was about a preoccupation with dieting  .... how boring I thought ..... so I continued to (try) to concentrate on my mountain bike magazine.

Still, you know what it is like ... the more you try to "tune out" of a conversation you don't want to listen to, the more you seem to hear. And it was when I heard the word "metabolism"  that I actually "tuned in"  .... because that word is a word I live by. i have researched diet and exercise as a hobby / interest for decades and I have narrowed it all down to that word when it comes to keeping healthy.

I really get quite angered by the rubbish that is marketed to the general public under the guise of "health and wellness". I've read about them all! The (stupid word) Diet or The Diet That worked For (famous movie star) or whatever. They are all so ridiculous in regards to presenting a "whole of life" plan that anyone can stick to ...... a month or two down the track and it's all over and on to the next fabulous weight loss discovery.

Oops! .... a little off track again.

So now I've put down my mountain bike magazine and I'm listening. The ladies were so self immersed that they didn't notice me looking in their direction from time to time; I even managed to edge my comfy little lounge chair a little closer across the floor.

I heard talk that this program explained how metabolism was controlled by hormones in our body. (Information I knew but had not studied too deeply as I was mainly focused on the benefits of a high metabolism, even though that is actually all about hormone control). So my research has been a little shallow I thought to myself as I continued to listen. It occurred to me that I hadn't researched that side of the metabolism factor and therefore my weight management because I had never had to. I found that the exercise I enjoy doing, (mainly mountain biking), combined with knowing what to moderate in my diet, (but not eliminate), always made it easy for me to maintain "my figure". Anyhow, I digress again. I'm a guy and it is no good talking too much about what I do because APPARENTLY it won't work for you ladies.

The only similarity that I found in this discussion that I was over-hearing was that it didn't involve prepackaged crap diets, ancient secret berries, juices made of who knows what, pills, grains, NO grains ...... Oh! and no "cardio" or stupid exercise machines advertised on day time television or by movie stars or famous athletes.

Then the excitement level increased as the ladies started to talk about the incredible mother who was apparently the focus of this "discovery".

I listened for what must have been another half an hour and I was able to get a name for this program that was apparently available for download on the Net. I made sure I wouldn't forget so I typed it into my Notes App on my IPhone. I planned to Google it when I got home to get to the bottom of what this conversation had been about. At this point my main interest was merely that I was interested in anything that might assist me in the management of my metabolism as it was my key to my weight management and energy levels.

When I had the information in my IPhone I realized the conversation had changed to less interesting "girlie" stuff so ....... back to reading the magazine I went.

So at this point I think I have typing cramp and I can't say much more until I have a look on
Google; so until my next installment .... have a great day.