The Truth Behind Why You Can't Lose Weight: Part 2

Today we are talking about “Why You Can’t Lose Weight and What to Do About It: Part 2.”

Remember last week I introduced you to the concept that the reason you can’t lose weight, the reason it is so much harder than it used to be is because you have damaged your metabolism over the years and now you need to fix it before you will find lasting weight control.

Most of us feel this intuitively… right? Deep down, we feel like something is not right with our metabolisms.

We exercise and we don’t lose weight.

We eat healthy and we don’t lose weight.

We don’t eat much and we don’t lose weight.

We stop drinking and we don’t lose weight.

We go through menopause and we gain a bunch of weight seemingly overnight!

This is all real and this is all true.

If you feel like something is wrong, you are right! Something is wrong!

You are suffering from a damaged metabolism. And until you fix it, you will constantly be searching for the next band aid diet to lose 10 lbs and then you’ll just gain it all back. Or worse, you’ll do Noon or Weight Watchers (again) and not lose anything!

The reason you can’t lose weight is your metabolism.

So what is wrong with our metabolisms?

They are damaged.

Let’s dive a little deeper.

You have two main parts to your metabolism when it comes to weight loss:

First you have your metabolic machinery, your mitochondria. We talked about those delicate and incredibly important organelles that burn our body fat last week, so if you missed last weeks video, I’ll post the link above so you can go back and watch it.

If you want to burn fat and be healthy, the buck stops at your mitochondria. Not your calorie intake. Not your Zumba class.

Your mitochondria.

When your mitochondria are damaged, you can’t burn fat efficiently and your whole health suffers.

That is one part of a damaged metabolism.

Today we’ll dive into the second part of your metabolism: your metabolic hormones.

A damaged metabolism has hormones that are unbalanced and blocking our ability to burn fat.

If your mitochondria are the engine that burns the fuel, the hormones are the driver of the car. They tell the whole body, burn fat or store fat. Burn sugar or store sugar. Grow. Don’t grow. Eat. Don’t eat. Digest food, don’t digest food.

The driver of the metabolic car is your metabolic hormones.

And there is one professional driver above all other drivers in the drivers seat of your metabolism.

And that driver is insulin.

Insulin is a hormone produced in your pancreas that helps unlock the doors to your cells so that the sugar and protein can get inside to be burned or to build stuff.

Without insulin, you would die. You need insulin.

The problem with most of us in 2021 who are over 40 is that we have abused our insulin.

We now have insulin that goes up too high. This is called hyperinsulinemia.

And then, not only is it too high, it stays on too long. Like way too long.

Over time of overstimulating our insulin, your body cells become indifferent to insulins signals.

Insulin sits there, knocking on the door to the cell forever and your cell door never opens. It just doesn’t hear it. Plus, your cell is too full of fuel anyway, it doesn’t even need anymore.

So the insulin wanders through your bloodstream for hours at a time trying to clear the fuel from each of our meals.

And we eat a lot of meals. Multiple meals and snacks all day, so that insulin is working overtime!

This is insulin resistance. Many of you have heard of insulin resistance.

It’s very dangerous.

And it’s the reason most of us can’t burn fat.

Because when our insulin is on, when it’s flowing through our blood after meals, long, long after meals and while we sleep even, it signals to our body to keep all our fat stores in our fat cells. No one gets out! And it also says, well, the fat cells actually listen to us, so we will put all this sugar into the fat cells.

Insulin promote what we call fat-accumulation and blocks fat burning.

This system, this hormonal system has little to do with calories. You can eat 1200 calories a day and overstimulate your insulin.

This insulin problem is a big problem and is actually at the heart of not just too much body fat, but too much fat being stored in our organs.

It’s the root cause of most of our chronic diseases like diabetes type 2, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, Alzheimers, and cancer.

Insulin is not a bad guy.

How we eat is the problem.

Insulin is literally doing everything in its power to help us not kill ourselves.

It is shoving fat anywhere it can so we don’t die.

It is shoveling sugar anywhere it can so we don’t die.

It is trying so hard to get us fuel, but we just keep eating the wrong things and the wrong times and making life so very hard on our insulin.

Insulin has done nothing wrong.

We have wronged our insulin.

It will always do what it can to keep us alive.

And for most us, it’s keeping us alive by storing fat. We are alive at the expense of our weight.

Your weight is not why your insulin is so high.

Your weight is too high, because we have disabused our insulin.

This is the heart of metabolic damage. This, too-much-insulin-problem.

If I say metabolic damage, I mean you have some degree of insulin resistance, inflammation, and damage to your mitochondria that is physiologically blocking your body’s ability to burn fat and be healthy.

If you have metabolic hormones, and there are more, if you have metabolic hormones that are all out of balance like this, not matter what you do, you will never really burn that belly fat.

Repairing this balance and then protecting this balance is the heart of the Freese Method.

First, we clean up your mitochondria so it can burn a lot of fat very efficiently.

Then we balance your hormones so that fat will actually be released from your fat stores!

Exercise does not release fat from your fat stores if you have metabolic damage.

Eating less or counting calories will not release fat from your fat stores if you have metabolic damage.

The first step to full, permanent weight loss and weight control is to fix your metabolism from the years of damage you’ve inadvertently put it through.

No body does this on purpose.

But none the less, here we are.

Stuck with the damage and we just need to move forward and fix it.

You absolutely have what it takes to lose weight, you just have to fix your metabolism first.