Exercising and eating right to lose weight can be a terribly depressing journey for women. As a woman, it seems that no matter how hard you try to lose weight, the chips are against you. Women, on average, have a higher amount of normal body fat compared to men, and it’s much easier for them to gain it than lose it. And then once you gain a pound, your body works hard to keep that pound and adjusts to keep your body at that weight.
Don’t get it wrong, now! You shouldn’t aim to lose every ounce of fat you have. As women, fat puts the plumpness in our sexy curves and the “push” in our cleavage. Normal amounts of body fat are a healthy requirement of your body composition. Monounsaturated fats protect your body against cancer and heart disease. Polyunsaturated fats improve body health and cell development. A healthy amount of fat in the body also helps beautify hair, skin, and nails. Fat also produces leptin, a hormone that controls appetite and regulates energy and metabolism.
So it’s not just any fat you should hate and target; it’s the excessive, wavy, sagging fat that causes health problems and, gasp!, stores toxins; destroying toxin-laden fat like this should be the goal. Yes, toxins. You see, most people assume that excess fat is simply unsightly and unattractive. No one considers the consequences of being fat, aside from an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, and other weight-related health problems. But honestly, they should.
Fat is much more than a mass of unsightly, unsightly, bright yellow greasy material that sits haphazardly under the skin’s surface. Fat stores unused energy in your body. It is living tissue that provides a comfortable storage area for excessive, indigestible, and unreleased poisonous toxins in your body as well. To put it bluntly, the more fat you have, the more toxins you will store, especially if you eat meat and animal fat (meat).
But wait, ladies! It gets better!
Do you know estrogen, the main female hormone? Well, it also conspires with fat to work against us! You see, fat contains enzymes that convert steroids into estrogen. And estrogen, having made itself at home in those cozy, fatty tissues, binds to receptors on the surfaces of fat cells. Best friends, fat and estrogen come together to promote the growth and expansion of more fat in your body and increase your body’s resistance to your diligent weight loss efforts.