Permanent Weight Loss -- How Your Glands Prevent It
Many obese people blame their glands for their overweight condition. Whether excuse or not, its true that glandular imbalance can prevent you achieving permanent weight loss.
Your endocrine glands govern your body shape and where you store fat. Four glands apply to women and three to men. The glands are: adrenals, thyroid, pituitary, and in women only, gonadals. One gland, stronger than the others, is your dominant gland. To achieve permanent weight loss you need to strengthen your weaker glands bringing them into better balance.
Thyroid Type:
If your dominant gland is your thyroid, you tend to be fine boned. Often taller than average; a basketball player build.
Thyroid type women usually have a good bust, shapely legs and fine features. When overweight, fat deposits mostly around the waist as a spare tire.
Adrenal Type:
Adrenal types tend to have a big-boned, footballer type build. Overweight adrenal types store excess fat all over the torso, including the back. Men often have large bellies but smaller backsides. Women are similar, usually with large busts.
Pituitary Type:
Pituitary types tend to be small and underdeveloped at their normal weight: the jockey type build. Often the head appears large compared to shoulders width. Women usually have small busts.
Overweight pituitary types put on weight all over. An obese pituitary type resembles the Michelin man. Fat is even stored on hands and feet. With a dominant pituitary gland, women often develop strong facial hair, which can be reduced by balancing the glands.
Gonadal Type:
Gonadal types, (women only), are usually a larger size around the hips than the bust. The pear shape in other words. Surplus fat targets mainly buttocks and thighs.
Gland Foods
Your dominant gland controls your taste buds. It leads you to enjoy foods that stimulate your dominant gland and maintain its dominance. Thats why you store fat in those particular areas.
Thyroid types for example, normally enjoy sweet foods with lots of sugar. And coffee, since the thyroid likes stimulants too. High GI foods like sugar target the waistline. So thyroid types store fat as a spare tire.
Heavy meat and potatoes appeal to adrenal types, feed the adrenal glands and are stored as fat on the torso.
Pituitary types danger foods are dairy products. Whilst gonadal types like spicy and creamy foods that target hips and thighs.
These food tastes are generalizations, depending on the relative strength or weakness of the other glands.
Strategy
If youre on any sort of slimming diet, bear in mind the effects of different foods on your glands. Reduce foods that stimulate your dominant gland and eat more of those that feed the other glands.
For example, if you store fat as a spare tire and are tall with fine bones, your thyroid is your dominant gland. So avoid sweet foods and caffeine-rich drinks like coffee that stimulate it. Instead, eat more of the foods that feed the other glands since youre trying to lose weight, not excessive amounts of them.
For thyroid types, heavy proteins and starches that feed the adrenals, moderate amounts of dairy products that feed the pituitary, spicy and creamy foods that feed the gonadals, are all okay.
There used to be a diet called GlanDiet. This was based on the facts above and included different herbal combination capsules for each glandular type. The herbs aim was to give extra stimulation for each glandular types weaker glands. Unfortunately GlanDiet is now discontinued. When it was available most dieters using GlanDiet lost more fat from their problem areas. It also enabled many who had hit sticking points, to go on and lose more weight.
Did it give permanent weight loss? Yes, provided you kept your glands in balance, by heeding the eating advice outlined above.
Today, some say that hormones are the reason we each store fat in different areas of our bodies. Yet hormones are secreted by glands!
Your endocrine glands govern your body shape and where you store fat. Four glands apply to women and three to men. The glands are: adrenals, thyroid, pituitary, and in women only, gonadals. One gland, stronger than the others, is your dominant gland. To achieve permanent weight loss you need to strengthen your weaker glands bringing them into better balance.
Thyroid Type:
If your dominant gland is your thyroid, you tend to be fine boned. Often taller than average; a basketball player build.
Thyroid type women usually have a good bust, shapely legs and fine features. When overweight, fat deposits mostly around the waist as a spare tire.
Adrenal Type:
Adrenal types tend to have a big-boned, footballer type build. Overweight adrenal types store excess fat all over the torso, including the back. Men often have large bellies but smaller backsides. Women are similar, usually with large busts.
Pituitary Type:
Pituitary types tend to be small and underdeveloped at their normal weight: the jockey type build. Often the head appears large compared to shoulders width. Women usually have small busts.
Overweight pituitary types put on weight all over. An obese pituitary type resembles the Michelin man. Fat is even stored on hands and feet. With a dominant pituitary gland, women often develop strong facial hair, which can be reduced by balancing the glands.
Gonadal Type:
Gonadal types, (women only), are usually a larger size around the hips than the bust. The pear shape in other words. Surplus fat targets mainly buttocks and thighs.
Gland Foods
Your dominant gland controls your taste buds. It leads you to enjoy foods that stimulate your dominant gland and maintain its dominance. Thats why you store fat in those particular areas.
Thyroid types for example, normally enjoy sweet foods with lots of sugar. And coffee, since the thyroid likes stimulants too. High GI foods like sugar target the waistline. So thyroid types store fat as a spare tire.
Heavy meat and potatoes appeal to adrenal types, feed the adrenal glands and are stored as fat on the torso.
Pituitary types danger foods are dairy products. Whilst gonadal types like spicy and creamy foods that target hips and thighs.
These food tastes are generalizations, depending on the relative strength or weakness of the other glands.
Strategy
If youre on any sort of slimming diet, bear in mind the effects of different foods on your glands. Reduce foods that stimulate your dominant gland and eat more of those that feed the other glands.
For example, if you store fat as a spare tire and are tall with fine bones, your thyroid is your dominant gland. So avoid sweet foods and caffeine-rich drinks like coffee that stimulate it. Instead, eat more of the foods that feed the other glands since youre trying to lose weight, not excessive amounts of them.
For thyroid types, heavy proteins and starches that feed the adrenals, moderate amounts of dairy products that feed the pituitary, spicy and creamy foods that feed the gonadals, are all okay.
There used to be a diet called GlanDiet. This was based on the facts above and included different herbal combination capsules for each glandular type. The herbs aim was to give extra stimulation for each glandular types weaker glands. Unfortunately GlanDiet is now discontinued. When it was available most dieters using GlanDiet lost more fat from their problem areas. It also enabled many who had hit sticking points, to go on and lose more weight.
Did it give permanent weight loss? Yes, provided you kept your glands in balance, by heeding the eating advice outlined above.
Today, some say that hormones are the reason we each store fat in different areas of our bodies. Yet hormones are secreted by glands!
