Have you tried every diet and still can't lose weight? See how mastering the fat hormone leptin is key for permanent weight loss, energy, and improved health!
Board-certified Clinical Nutritionist and renowned author Byron J. Richards has earned his reputation as a top nutritional and natural health expert, as the first to understand and write on the hormone leptin and its huge impact on weight and overall health.
Unlike fad diets, The Leptin Diet® is backed by real science. Honing in on the very basics of our genetic blueprint, it provides lifelong solutions to the very real health problems facing many of us today. The Five Rules provide a roadmap, not only to achieving a healthy weight, but also to increasing energy, improving cardiovascular fitness, supporting digestive health and increasing immune function.
Byron J. Richards' breakthrough research and writings on leptin and thyroid hormone have changed the lives of those handed death sentences by western medicine. The Leptin Diet® focuses on the core issues in the body and provides permanent solutions.
Check out our online resources below, currently available for free. You'll learn why leptin is the most powerful hormone in the body, why weight loss can be difficult and what you can do to lose weight and keep it off! We hear our clients' amazing success stories every day. Make the decision today to become one of them.
What is Leptin?
Watch Byron Richards, leading Leptin Expert, explain leptin basics. Learn why leptin is essential for healthy metabolism, thyroid, weight loss, brain health, and more. "Eat to live, don't live to eat!" Leptin Basics: 5 minute segment
5 Rules of The Leptin Diet
Did you know that it is just as important when you eat as what you eat? Watch Byron, Leading Leptin Expert, explain The Leptin Diet 5 Rules, and why they are so important to follow for weight management and optimum health. "Learn how to eat in harmony with the hormone leptin." The 5 Rules: 10 minute segment
Managing Leptin
Learn how to live in harmony with leptin. Following the 5 Rules, managing stress, getting refreshing sleep and exercise are components that make up the Leptin Lifestyle. Learn what you can do to lose weight, keep it off, and feel great for life! "Leptin is like the conductor of an orchestra." Managing Leptin: 5 minute segment
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The Leptin Diet® JumpStart Program:
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Crash diets are detrimental to your health as they cause leptin to go into "starvation mode" which means you will gain back all the weight you lose as soon as you start eating more. My plan enables you to rapidly get back on track without inducing a leptin problem – to the contrary – you'll get leptin pointed in the right direction.
In addition to losing weight this program helps shrink the size of your stomach and get you out of a metabolic rut. This plan is simple and easy to follow.
Why This Program Works
This program brings leptin and other metabolic signals back in balance, while boosting your energy and muscle function, while eating less food. It is worth your time to read my two feature articles that explain in depth why this approach is the fastest and safest way for just about anyone to drop a few pounds and get back into a healthy eating pattern.
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The Leptin Diet® Weight Loss Success Stories
Listen first hand how The Leptin Diet® has changed the lives of Lance and Bonnie.
Lance's Success Story
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Bonnie's Success Story
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Leptin Diet® Weight Loss Success Stories
85 lbs Lost on The Leptin Diet®
I was 175 lbs two months ago when I started on The Leptin Diet® and following the Five Rules. I now weigh 161 lbs! I don't think a shred of it is muscle mass loss, because my strength is actually climbing. I am smaller in the midsection and much more defined. Pretty cool stuff! ~ Frank
Great Results with the Leptin Control Pack®
I had been taking the Leptin Control Pack® for only 2 ½ weeks when I went in to my doctor for some lab work. It had been previously abnormal and I was seeking natural options to normalize them. My lab results came back with HUGE improvements! My thyroid function and blood pressure are both getting better. I am ecstatic and am referring everyone to your website. All of my friends have been commenting on how great I look. My hair is growing back in and I have more energy and am more alert. My mood has changed; I am having fun again and not feeling depressed at ll! I have been seeing a naturopath for years, spending a fortune, with no results. Wellness Resources products have provided wonderful results. I will be a lifelong customer! ~ Claudia B.
Stress or toxin load interfering with sleep. Byron Suggests: More nutrients as applicable during the day. At night: RelaxaMag™ 2-4, Sleep Helper® 1-3 Tri-Cal, 1-4, Melatonin 1-6. Strive for 7-8 hours of restful sleep.*
It may seem quite unfair; however, in individuals who really struggle with weight they may need to make time for two to three hours of exercise per day. It is a small price to pay for living longer – and the improved energy and feeling of vitality oftentimes translates to more productive use of the other hours in the day.
The next most common reasons are:
Not enough sleep or not sleeping well (prime fat burning occurs during restful sleep).
Stress
Congested detoxification systems (GI tract, lymph system, and/or liver function).
After that, issues are more complex such as:
Toxic fat (fat stores toxins in general) which the body won't give back up.
Cellular energetic problems, difficulty using calories.
Really out of shape fat cells that have gone numb.
Congested liver function (the liver is partially clogged with fat).
Anti-energy medications – such as statins and blood pressure medications.
Significant health issues, including fibromyalgia, chronic pain, immune dysfunction, and many other issues.
The good news is that almost any of these problems can be resolved if a person keeps working at it. Mastering Leptin offers many tips for these more difficult issues, and the third edition (due out in the summer of 2007) will fully explain natural options to improve even the worst-case metabolic problems.
The Leptin Diet is fundamental to solving weight issues. It is the diet that creates a foundation that enables the potential for safe and healthy weight loss. A majority of people respond quite well to the diet and moderate exercise. The Leptin Control Pack® is designed to help make the whole experience easier, and is an option for anyone.
A variety of nutrients support healthy blood glucose metabolism. Our best products for this are LeptiSlim®, Cinnamon Plus&tread;, and Leptinal®. While any one may help, the combination is synergistic from a variety of angles. All three are contained in the Leptin Control Pack®.
Cholesterol fitness is a new concept for many people. There is a synergistic relationship between the brain, white adipose tissue, the liver/gallbladder, and cells that guides the production and use of cholesterol. All of these systems are guided and controlled by leptin. Restoring proper leptin function and thereby creating the potential to recover healthy cholesterol function is vital to cardiovascular health. The Leptin Diet is the foundation of this plan.
Yes, this is because leptin receptors on fat cells, especially abdominal cells, tend to go numb following transition. Many women who have not previously struggled with weight management may now enter a surprisingly difficult time. The Leptin Diet should be followed as closely as possible, as there is little margin for error.
Because the Leptin Control Pack® is designed to comprehensively support metabolic efficiency, it is our most popular grouping of supplements for weight management – and is often used by women going through menopause or following this period of transition.
I am not an advocate of making carbohydrate cripples. Excess carbohydrate consumption is the downfall of many individuals, especially the consumption of too much sugar. And many individuals need to restrict carbohydrates enough to kick in water dumping and weight loss – although this approach has limitations and very low carbohydrate intake is cardiovascular stressful for just about anyone after one month. The Atkin's diet readily leads to the excess consumption of saturated fat, which will clog organs and arteries. While saturated fat in and of itself is just fine in moderation, excess saturated fat, like excess sugar, are two of the most common dietary blunders. The Leptin Diet allows moderate amounts of fat and carbohydrate.
The weight loss plateau is a fragile time. The brain has not yet reset your body weight perception to your new weight, thus the ease with which you may regain weight. One remedy is to increase the amount of exercise – which demands more calories to be burned as fuel. In many cases individuals need to exercise far more than they think, up to three hours per day, especially when weight loss is not progressing.
Sometimes adjusting the timing of your supplements may help. If there is any time in the day when you tend to lose energy, like mid afternoon, that dip in energy is an “anti metabolism time.” You could try taking a Leptin Control Pack® at that time, specifically to prevent the drop in energy – rather than at dinner. Most people take two Leptin Control Pack® a day to support metabolism, while others find that 3 or 4 per day really help.
It is actually fine to stay at a plateau for a month or two, as long as you increase exercise enough so that a moderate increase in calorie intake does not induce weight gain.
Another factor is that individuals store toxins in fat and sooner or later on a diet an individual may hit one of these toxic layers. The body does not want to give up the toxic fat if the person's detoxification systems are not adequate – a type of defense mechanism to prevent self-induced excess toxins in the circulation. This is often signified by irritable feelings that are now occurring on the diet, which did not exist before – along with the weight plateau. Products like Activator Plus™, Daily Balancer™, Fiber Helper™, and/or Immune Plus™ can be used to support natural detoxification, as needed, which will help get a person on track to resolve this issue.
Digestive problems do limit the amount a person can eat at any one time. I suggest four smaller meals per day, four hours apart. I also suggest taking Digestive Enzymes with meals along with GI Soother and GI and Muscle Helper, in an effort to find a combination of support that enables you to eat more without having digestive distress.
The after dinner time is the key sign of serious leptin-driven imbalance and problems. In general, problems earlier in the day are what set you up for the problems at night. Ensuring you get through the day without any energy problems and ensuring you arrive home with a normal appetite (not ravenously hungry or tired) are the keys to potentially resolving this issue. This means following the Leptin Diet well, Using energy support nutrition like Daily Energy Multiple Vitamin™, the Leptin Control Pack®, Iosol Iodine, and possibly some Q10. After dinner, if still an issue, I would take 1-3 LeptiSlim®, which helps most people in this evening time.
*Tune in to Byron's Weekly Podcast to hear if he's answered your question, plus answers to many other questions from readers like you!
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