Are Your Hormones Affecting Your Weight?

Balancing your hormones can make weight loss more efficient, improve your mood, and  aid in motivation to make healthy choices! 
 
Women are defined by their hormones from the time they are young, with familiar words like adolescent, childbearing years, PMS, postpartum, peri-menopausal, and menopausal. So why are women met with denial or looks of confusion when asking health care professionals about how hormones affect weight? A closer look at the way hormones affect behavior, followed by how they can affect the body physically, shows that they have a great impact on a woman's' weight as well as her motivation, willpower, and energy to follow a healthy lifestyle.
 
Hormones affect the way a woman feels, emotionally and physically, which then affects one's actions. Let's face it, the easiest time to go off a diet is during PMS or the mood swings that precede a menstrual cycle. In addition, an aversion to exercise may be due to low energy, lack of sleep, or dwindling motivation, all of which are connected to how a woman feels during different times of the month depending on hormonal swings. If weight loss efforts are stalled a poor mood can result. With all this in mind, it is easy to see how imbalances in hormones can cause us to feel depressed, lethargic, irritable, anxiety-ridden, or unmotivated.
 
In relation to weight, estrogen causes the body to retain fat and fluid while progesterone is a natural diuretic and fat burner. When the two hormones are out of balance 'estrogen dominance' results.  This imbalance, which is extremely common in many women, can contribute to symptoms associated with PMS, weight gain, and may even contribute to female related cancers. A woman who is overweight is usually estrogen dominant because fat cells tend to produce their own estrogen. This condition also worsens with age through the natural aging process.
 
A safe and natural approach includes a combination of good nutrition, exercise, relaxation therapy, and personal coaching. Plant based hormone cream therapy combined with diet and exercise will help promote healthy weight loss, decrease stress, and help keep hormones balanced. 
 
In conjunction with hormone expert, Joseph Beldonza C.C.N., and Healthy Inspirations created the all natural, plant based hormone cream. The creams come in a pump form that dispenses out a single dosage, which is then rubbed into the skin. The ingredients are water soluble and are cleared by the body in 18-24 hours when any excess cannot be used; therefore do not build up in the system like some other products on the market. The creams work trans-dermally similar to the patch for smoking cessation.  Because they go right into the blood stream and bypass the liver, they work better with less stress on the liver. 
 
Because there is still no real evidence about the safeness of natural estrogens, there are no estrogens in these creams. Because natural progesterone has been proven to be safe long'term, it is the main ingredient in the Female Support Cream.
 
If you believe your hormones are out of balance, the next step is to visit or call your local Healthy Inspirations Center. A Center locator can be found on the website www.hiforlife.com. 

Contact the Greensburg Center at 724-824-1010, to schedule a quick screening and questionnaire to check if your are imbalanced and to what degree. Next, you will be given a specific protocol for usage, along with all the information and materials that detail the simple application process and timing. Finally you will begin to use the product and begin enjoying the joys of living with balanced hormones.