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"Flip
Your Fat-Burning Switch"
copyright 2003 by Greg Landry, M.S.
I'd like you to imagine that there's a
switch on your forehead. Everytime you flip
that switch, it does three things:
1. It elevates several of your body's hormones
that tell your body to burn more fat.
2. It decreases hormones that tell your
body to store fat.
3. It gives your metabolism (basal metabolic
rate) a boost.
Would you be flipping that switch pretty
frequently? You bet you would! You would
probably wear it out.
Now, what if it required a little effort
on your part to flip it? Are you game? Would
you be willing to exercise regularly to
get that switch flipped, because that's
exactly what exercise will do for you. Everytime
you exercise, the switch gets flipped.
For example, insulin is a hot topic right
now because it's a "fat storage"
hormone. Exercise decreases an elevated
insulin level allowing fat to be removed
from "storage" and burned as fuel.
Epinephrine and growth hormone are "fat
mobilization" hormones. Their blood
levels are increased with exercise and they
cause fat to be removed from "storage"
and burned as fuel.
Your basal metabolic rate is elevated a
little every time you exercise. the more
you flip the switch, the more it's elevated.
Here's the bottom line folks - when you're
sedentary, your body loves to hold on to
fat. It likes to "store" as much
as it can.
Conversely, when you exercise, your body
screams for fat to be dumped. It does everything
it can to get rid of fat. The more you exercise,
the more it screams. Make it scream! :)
Author and exercise physiologist, Greg
Landry, offers FREE weight loss success
stories and his "Fast, Healthy Weight
Loss" newsletter at his site: http://www.Landry.com
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copyright 2003 by Greg Landry, M.S.
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