Hi,

It's true! Hormones can and do play a large role in how much excess fat you store, and also where you store it. Today my Aussie friend and female fat burning expert Sue Heintze talks about a sneaky "little" hormone called estrogen and how it may be affecting your fat loss.

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Are Your Hormones Making You Fat? 

By Sue Heintze

In today's age of convenience, many women unknowingly suffer from a disorder known as 'Estrogen Dominance' which in addition to fat gain particularly around the stomach, hips and thighs, can cause other health conditions like:

• PMS 
• Infertility 
• PCOS 
• Missed or irregular periods 
• Swollen or Fibrocystic Breasts 
• Irritability 
• Fatigue 
• Allergies and Asthma 
• Fibroids 
• Mood Swings 
• Magnesium deficiency 
• Thyroid dysfunction

Now Estrogen is certainly not all bad - in fact as a woman it is a hormone we need.

Estrogen is responsible for secondary sexual characteristics like the development of breasts during puberty.  It's responsible for the natural widening of a woman's hips to make any future child-birthing safer and easier for both mom and baby.

Estrogen even helps with the development of the female reproductive system.  These are definitely positive functions that estrogen can deliver to any woman.

The problem occurs when your hormones become imbalanced and you experience estrogen overload, or Estrogen Dominance to be a little more technical. 

Fortunately there ARE several ways you can lower your Estrogen levels naturally.  I'm going to share 2 of them with you today.

The first one is to replace any packaged food or drinks you currently eat with healthier, natural substitutes.  

In our current hustle and bustle busy world, many of us tend to rely a lot on foods in packets and boxes. 

Ultimately we suffer the consequences caused by these poor food choices, toxins, and addictive chemicals that food manufacturers sneak into most processed grocery store products. 

Not only do these toxins add extra poundage to your waistline - all the extra "junk" poisons your system. Some of the chemicals they use actually mimic estrogen and act just like our natural hormones. This contributes significantly to today's Estrogen Dominance epidemic.

Some of my favourite healthy food switches to help control excess estrogen are cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, bokchoy, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and kale. 

These veggies have it all - high fibre, vitamins, antioxidants and phytochemicals that can lower cancer risk. They also contain indole 3-carbinol, an anti-estrogen. Crambene, another compound found in cruciferous vegetables, is known for its detoxifying effects against carcinogens. 

I recommend you aim to include cruciferous vegetables at least every other day. Protect yourself from cancer while keeping your body lean!

Here's something you do need to be aware of though - these vegetables are also known as 'goitrogens' and if eaten raw, can block thyroid function. Cooking minimizes the goitrogenic potential of these foods. So it's best to cook these types of veggies lightly.

The other thing you can do to lower estrogen levels naturally is to exercise regularly!

If you carry excess body fat you are far more likely to suffer from estrogen dominance. 

Your ovaries produce most of the estrogen in your body, but they can also synthesize it from fatty tissue, meaning the more fat you have, the more estrogen you produce. 

So lowering your body fat through exercise definitely helps to control excess estrogen!

Estrogen dominance can also be caused indirectly from stress (who doesn't suffer from that these days!) 

Stress leads to the release of hormones like cortisol and insulin, both of which can lead to excess fat storage. So managing your stress levels is another way you can help balance your hormones, and a great way to reduce stress is through exercise.

So to keep your hormones happy you need to perform the right kind of exercise on a regular basis! 

Be careful though as excess physical activity can have a detrimental effect. If you are younger, over-training can cause problems with your fertility by bringing on irregular ovulation and menstrual cycles and too little estrogen can endanger bone health. 

This is why a balanced exercise and diet regime is a necessity now, and into the future. 

Dream, Believe, Achieve!

Sue Heintze

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Yes, hormones certainly can be pesky intruders at times! That's one of the reasons why I really like Sue's new Ideal Body Blueprint program.  It's a complete fat-burning program for women that can help you naturally keep your estrogen (and body fat) at healthy levels.

You can get the full scoop on Ideal Body Blueprint by going here: Ideal Body Blueprint for Women

As an FYI, Sue has a limited time bonus this week only.  If you grab her Ideal Body Blueprint program, you'll get 30 days of VIP Coaching and a never released before rapid fat loss diet, the 10 Day Little Black Dress Diet that will help you lose up to a dress size in just 10 days - F.REE!

This comprehensive female fat burning system is backed by a full 60-day money back guarantee - so you've got nothing to lose.

Here's the link again for Ideal Body Blueprint:  Ideal Body Blueprint for Women

Talk soon,

Brian