Why Does Weight Come Back After a Diet, and How Can Detox Help Keep That Weight Off Permanently?

Have you ever noticed how most diets work for a little while, but they never seem to stick! The truth is that while most diets seem to work initially, they almost always result in the gaining back of the weight that was lost in the beginning. But why? And how does detox allow your body to more efficiently and permanently burn fat AND keep it off!

Why Does Weight Come Back After the Initial Loss?

There are two main considerations when losing weight. 1.) Taking in fewer calories than you burn, and 2.) activating powerful fat-burning hormones in the body that do all the work for you. In both of these methods, your liver plays a crucial role, and in order for permanent weight loss to occur, your liver needs to be functioning optimally.

Most diets focus exclusively on calorie restriction. When you restrict calories, your body is forced to tap into the fat cells to utilize them for energy. That’s good right? Well, yes, as long as you do not over restrict your caloric intake.  Starving the body ultimately causes the production of stress hormones that suppress weight loss and can actually cause you to gain weight.  However, one thing to keep in mind is that fat cells are actually storage units for excess toxins in the body that are on their way to being filtered out by the liver. As fat cells shrink, these toxins are forced out and sent to the liver again, but if the toxic load is too much for the liver to keep up with, the toxins will once again return back to the fat cells which will force them to expand. That means the weight comes back and the dieting yo-yo of losing and regaining weight continues for most people throughout their lives!

The second method for losing weight also relies on the liver but can be much more powerful. When most people think of weight loss, they think of the thyroid gland and its part in metabolism, however, there are a total of six fat burning hormones your body produces and numerous organs and glands that produce them. These hormones include Growth Hormone (made in the pituitary gland,) Insulin-Like Growth Factor (made in the liver,) Glucagon (made in the pancreas,) Adrenaline (made in the adrenal glands,) Thyroid Hormones T3 and T4 (made in the thyroid,) and Testosterone (made in the adrenal glands, testicles, and ovaries.)According to Dr. Eric Berg, author of The Seven Principles of Fat Burning, “All six fat burning hormones do their work through the liver. In fact 80% of your thyroid function occurs through the liver.” (2006, p. 145). This means that the liver plays a huge role in fat burning. The liver activates powerful fat burning hormones that can help you lose weight much quicker and in a more permanent way than just restricting calories can. But don’t get too excited yet, because similarly to how excess toxins force your body to expand fat cells to store them in, they can also prevent the liver from properly activating fat burning hormones, because when the liver is overburdened with these toxins it cannot function properly.

So, what’s the moral of the story? If your liver is full of toxins and is unable to work optimally, you will continue to struggle with permanently losing weight, no matter what kind of diet you try.

But what are toxins, anyway? And how can we get rid of them?

Toxins are chemicals, heavy metals, or other compounds that overburden and cause damage to the body. They come from the end result of normal body functions like breathing and digestion, the air, water, food, cosmetics and body care products, cleaners, and in part from just about anything else that is man-made in our environment. By pulling these toxins out of the liver through a detoxification program, you are allowing for improved liver function which will optimize your ability to burn fat. In addition, if your liver is not overflowing with toxins, your body has less need to expand the fat cells to store additional toxins, allowing you to shrink fat more permanently. It is for this reason that detoxification of the liver is the key to permanent weight loss. So, the good news is most diets DO work. But the great news is that Detox makes them work better! 

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References

Berg, Eric. (2006). The Seven Principles of Fat Burning: Get Healthy, Lose Weight and Keep It Off. KB Publishing.