Jerilyn Hudson - Leptin Recipes: Make Your Fat-Burning Hormone Work for You to Overcome Leptin Resistance

Leptin Recipes

Make Your Fat-Burning Hormone Work For You And Overcome Leptin Resistance

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A re you like most people who battle with their weight, do you go on a diet but find it hard to stick to after a little while. When you lose weight does it creep back on? Do you find yourself eating larger and larger portions of food and the waistband of your clothes getting a little tighter each year?

If this is you, this book can help. It is almost certain that your body has become resistant to Leptin, the hormone that tells your brain that you have eaten enough. Leptin is secreted by fat cells so the more overweight you are the more Leptin is flooding into your system which in turn desensitizes your brain to the hormone. You become, in effect, Leptin resistant.

Sadly for most people Leptin resistance means that traditional diets are doomed to fail because your body does not produce enough Leptin and you end up feeling perpetually hungry. It is, however, possible to reset your Leptin tolerance. If you follow the simple steps outlined in this book you will teach your body to understand what Leptin is trying to communicate.

This book is packed with useful information to help you lead a leptin friendly lifestyle. From detailed information on how Leptin works to tasty, easy to prepare recipes, packed full of nutritious food. We also set out the five easy to follow rules which will help you lead a leptin friendly lifestyle.

This book is a guide to a way of life that will leave you healthy, full of energy and able to manage stress better. Try living a leptin friendly life for a month and you will never want to go back!

I n this chapter, you will learn:

• Why the Leptin Diet works
• How the Leptin Diet can benefit a healthy lifestyle

L eptin is one of the most powerful hormones in the body. If you can learn to control how your body deals with Leptin you will be able to manage your weight much more easily.

Leptin is manufactured in fat cells within the body and is used to tell your brain how much fat you have stored. This allows your brain to calculate how fast it can burn energy and therefore whether your metabolism should run fast or slow. Leptin therefore plays a vital role in regulating what you eat and what energy you deposit as fat. If your brain does not receive enough Leptin it will encourage the body to eat more. As more food is eaten Leptin levels rise and your body starts to feel full. The problem starts if the bodys Leptin mechanism is faulty.

It is possible to develop Leptin resistance in the same way that a type II diabetic is resistant to Insulin. If you are overweight and regularly eat more than you need, you will train your brain to ignore the signals your body sends out to say that it is full. As you eat more food you deposit fat which in turn produces more Leptin. Over time the brain becomes resistant to the effects of Leptin, your body may be awash with the hormone but your brain cannot process it properly and only starts to feel full after overeating.

Sadly this very resistance is what makes it impossible for us to pop Leptin pills and watch the weight drop off. Research on mice showed that test mice who lacked the ability to produce leptin ended up overweight and diabetic but they were cured with Leptin supplements. However, the majority of humans do not have any problem making their own Leptin, rather we make too much and that is what causes the resistance.

The Leptin diet works by managing the effects of overeating and Leptin Resistance.

L eptin plays a number of roles within the human body with the feeling of satiety being only one of them. Leptin works by coordinating the functions of hundreds of different mechanisms within the body. Leptin plays a key role in the mechanism which releases the hormone Melatonin to aid sleep and it helps to regulate the Thyroid hormones and stimulates the adrenal gland to produce the adrenaline that gets us up in the morning. Leptin is particularly important in pregnant women as it manages placental growth and protects the fetus developing nervous system.

If Leptin manages all these diverse systems it stands to reason that the better we are able to manage our Leptin balance and our bodys response to it the healthier we will be in the long term. Overcoming Leptin resistance helps with stress management, aids sleep and results in an overall increase in energy.

The good news is that this is a positive feedback loop. The more you use your diet to manage leptin resistance the more likely you are to be able to lead a healthy lifestyle. As a person starts to control their Leptin and has more energy to exercise the exercise itself will help to promote more efficient responses to Leptin. As a person starts to get more sleep their body can process Leptin much more effectively and that, in turn, helps them sleep better.

I n this chapter, you will learn:

• Tips and tricks for a tear-free transition to a Leptin Diet

The Leptin diet is actually relatively simple to follow, as long as you abide by five very easy rules you will find yourself transitioning to the Leptin diet without tears.

W e all know the saying breakfast is the most important meal of the day. This is because if we eat a good breakfast we cut down the likelihood of snacking during the day. Most breakfasts are very high in carbohydrates but low in protein. Those pancakes may be yummy but they are doing you no favors. If, however, you eat a breakfast that is high in protein (eggs are particularly good as is a fish like salmon). If you combine a generous serving of protein with a slow release carbohydrate like whole wheat toast or a banana you should be able to last all the way from breakfast to lunch without feeling the need to eat anything else.

Y ou should aim to eat three main meals a day and leave 5-6 hours between each meal. Do not, whatever you do, snack!

After you have eaten, fat, in the form of triglycerides, build up in the blood. If you leave sufficient time between meals your body will be able to clear these triglycerides. If you snack you add more triglycerides to your system and it becomes overloaded. When this happens your body is unable to register Leptin and so becomes resistant to it.

W e have become accustomed to eating meals that are much larger than we need. Look at the size of coffee cups in your local coffee shop does anyone actually need to drink all the milk and coffee in an extra-large Latte? Take a look at photographs of Europeans enjoying their morning coffee in Paris or Rome are the cups large? Absolutely not!