From: The 10 Fat Burning Triggers and Blockers
The fat-burning growth hormone is active throughout the night while you sleep; however, it increases during the first two hours of deep sleep, especially between midnight and 4:00 a.m. Omitting this sleep can prevent the fat-burning effect. In other words, the reason why you burn more fat during sleep is because the fat-burning growth hormone spikes during deep sleep cycles. It’s difficult to catch up on that important sleep if you miss this …

From: The 10 Fat Burning Triggers and Blockers
A huge hidden source of being overweight is water weight.
Monosodium glutamate is the big culprit in causing water retention and it can be hidden under a variety of names: modified food starch, autolyzed yeast, calcium caseinate, sodium caseinate, hydrolyzed protein, …

From: The 10 Fat Burning Triggers and Blockers
When you skip meals or do a fasting program, your blood sugars decrease, stimulating several hormones. The stress hormone cortisol (from the adrenals) increases, which turns your body tissues (muscles from the legs, buttocks and arms) into sugar fuel. This is a survival mechanism to provide quick energy or to help you stay alive during starvation. However, as you learned in chapter 5, if this sugar is not completely burned up, it will be changed into fat and …

From: The 10 Fat Burning Triggers and Blockers
Fats typically do not influence fat-making hormones; however, they do have the ability to stress the liver, which indirectly affects hormone flows through the liver.
The whole myth that fat is the big culprit making everyone fat doesn’t pan out when you’re talking about hormones. Fat has little effect on fat storing hormones. Many people put too much importance on restricting fats in the diet. Yes, it is true that with Liver types low fats are best; however, this is …

From: The 10 Fat Burning Triggers and Blockers
Protein is a powerful trigger for fat burning hormones if it’s not in excess. Protein stimulates two hormones glucagon and growth hormone. Now, there are two factors that should be discussed. The first one involves the amount of protein. If you eat too much protein, insulin (fat-making hormone) can be triggered. Excess protein can create nearly the same insulin response as refined carbohydrates.
Your body can only absorb a maximum of 50 grams of protein at one sitting; this is about 7 ounces of …

From: The 10 Fat Burning Triggers and Blockers
If the cause of your weight problem is a sick or failing endocrine system, then we need some nutrient-dense live food to heal it. The vegetable family has several qualities that aid in healing. Eaten raw, vegetables are one of the most concentrated sources of vitamins, minerals and plant chemicals. They are high in fiber, which buffers the fat maker insulin. They are also low in sugar, even though they are called a carbohydrate. Heat destroys nutrients. If the goal is …

From: The 10 Fat Burning Triggers and Blockers
Of all the things that have an impact on your metabolism, the most important one is sugar. Sugar triggers the powerful fat-making, fat-storing hormone insulin. In fact, in the presence of insulin not only will fat be blocked from being used as fuel BUT sugar will be converted to fat.
Sugar is a carbohydrate. And the most powerful trigger to fat burning is the absence of sugar.
If given the choice of what it likes as a fuel source, the body will …

Principle #6: (from the 7 Principles of Fat Burning Dr. Eric Berg)
Hormones control metabolism and each one associated with fat burning and fat storing has its own triggers. Hormones are triggered or blocked by foods, exercise and other activities.
There are two things that can happen with these triggers. You can eat and exercise to stimulate fat burning or you can eat and exercise for fat storing. The huge hidden problem I discovered was that most people are nullifying the fat-burning hormones by using …

Principle #2: (from the 7 Principles of Fat Burning Dr. Eric Berg)
You have probably been told that weight gain or obesity is caused by
“consuming more calories than are burned” and the way to lose weight is
to eat fewer calories. But how do we explain the skinny guy who eats like a horse yet doesn’t gain an ounce?
And what about the overweight person who looks at food across the table
and gains five pounds? The real problem lies more in metabolism and the hormones that control
it. When …

Principle #1: (from the 7 Principles of Fat Burning Dr. Eric Berg)
There Are 4 Different Body Shapes, Each Influenced by Hormones
Many people think that the shape of the body is purely genetic and there is nothing that can be done about it. The truth is that hormonal imbalances will cause excessive distortion of accumulated fat in different locations around the body. An imbalance on the inside can show up on the outside.
Body shape is affected by hormones.
Accumulating fat is directed to certain parts of your body based …