Let the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program teach you how following unhealthy fast weight loss diets trigger food cravings ... and how to alleviate these food cravings so that eating nutritionally becomes a pleasure!

Learn how low fat dieting and unhealthy fast weight loss diets causes Essential Fatty Acid Deficiency symptoms of hair loss, dry and brittle hair and nails, dry eyes, dry skin and dry mouth ... Section 7 of the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program will teach you how to alleviate these symptoms and more!

More invaluable weight loss tips: Learn how eating too little carbohydrates on unhealthy fast weight loss diets can trigger intense food cravings ... and that's not all! Before following another low carbohydrate weight loss diet, read the information on page 68 of the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program!

Following unhealthy fast weight loss diets place a strain on your liver. Learn how supporting your liver improves your skin tone and prevents wrinkles and sagging skin ... as well as give you strong, healthy nails and beautiful, thick hair ... See Section 9 of the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program for concrete weight loss tips on how to improve your outer beauty, as well as your inner health!

You don't have to put up with unhealthy fast weight loss diets that ask you to starve yourself anymore ... Yes, that's right ... the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program encourages you to EAT MORE to lose weight! This healthy diet program will explain how snacking and eating food can actually promote weight loss ...

Invaluable Weight Loss Tips: Go to page 36 of the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program to see a list of 10 snacks that everybody thinks are safe, low-fat snacks ... but really they trigger food cravings and cause you to gain weight!

Learn what are better snacks to eat to accelerate your weight loss ... even foods that those unhealthy fast weight loss diets have told you are fattening and to avoid!

Learn the secret power of these "7 Miracle Foods + 1" .... and how this little known "secret weapon" makes all the difference in your fitness and weight loss program ...  

Want to know more about what are the best fats to eat and which ones to avoid? The "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss program will teach you which fats are healthy and essential to our good health (and stop food cravings and help us to lose weight and fat) and which fats are “damaged” and how they cause many problems including obesity and high cholesterol and triglyceride levels … Section 7 of the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program will tell you what the big companies that manufacture "packaged, processed" foods don't want you to know!

Why is snacking on nutritious foods important? Check out these 15 benefits you will get from snacking (listed on page 38 of the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program)

Learn how drinking diet soft-drinks can cause you to gain weight and sabotage your weight loss efforts ... Page 55 of the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program gives you the amazing information the big soft-drink companies definitely do not want you to know!

"The Vast Majority of Fast Weight Loss Diets Just Don't Get It!"

You know what I mean. How many of those unhealthy fast weight loss diets promise you the moon, but deliver nothing more than unhealthy diets and tricks that don't work! Let's face it ... we're all sick of these fast weight loss diets ripping us off and lying to us! But most of all, we are fed up with empty promises that just waste our time and money and energy on diets that don't work ... and ruin our health in the process!

"Finally, the "Diet Free ... At Last! Weight Loss Program "tells it like it is" ...

I am not going to tell you that the "Diet Free ... At Last" diet program is "easy and effortless" ... I am not saying you don't have to put an effort into it ... and I am not saying you will rapidly lose weight ... (lose weight slowly and steadily - that's the healthy way to lose weight!)

What I am saying is that you can finally find out WHY you are gaining weight uncontrollably ... and knowledge is POWER ...

I am saying you can overcome obsessive food cravings and take back control of your life, the "Diet Free" way ...

But most importantly, I am saying that the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program can help you to work towards a permanent solution that can help you to lose the excess weight, lose those last stubborn pounds ... and best of all, change your health, and change your life, forever!

Unhealthy fast weight loss diets are only a temporary stop-gap ... and more often than not they damage your health and cause food cravings and yo-yo dieting.

It's time now to arm yourself with knowledge, find out WHY you have been suffering from excess weight, lose that excess weight, ... but most importantly, find the solutions to stop the diet cycle, take back control of your life ... and finally be, Diet Free ... At Last!

Unleash the remarkable power of hormones ... The Simplest & Most Natural Way to Lose Weight "Diet Free" Is To Work With Your Body's Natural Hormone System ... Let this program teach you how!

Learn the 7 benefits of reducing insulin hormones ... and how they affect your health and weight ... another reason why healthy eating and balanced nutrition is so important!

Learn how stress releases stress hormones that cause fat gain, especially in the abdominal area, and how managing your stress helps you to lose weight and fat!  

Learn how balancing certain hormones can improve pre-menopause and menopause symptoms like hot flashes, decreased sex drive, poor memory and lack of concentration, and much, much more ... the "What Health Conditions Cause Weight Gain!" e-book explains how to do this in a safe and natural way!

Learn how an imbalance in hormones causes you to gain weight ... and traps you in a weight gain vicious cycle. The "What Health Conditions Cause Weight Gain!" e-book explains how!

Learn how balancing your levels of estrogen and progesterone increases your sex drive ... (The "What Health Conditions Cause Weight Gain!" e-book teaches you how...)

Learn how losing weight and following the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program delays or eliminates the onset of Type II Diabetes … and take back control of your health, forever ...

Learn how reversing Leptin Resistance will re-establish your natural "weight regulation system" and stop yo-yo dieting forever...

...And what is Leptin Resistance?...

This is such an important discovery, I have outlined below an excerpt from the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program describing it...

"Leptin Resistance is something that not many people have heard about, even though it has been in the research papers since about 1994.  At that time, researchers thought that this was the answer to obesity.

They thought this because studies had been done with rats where if they gave leptin to obese rats, the rats started to lose weight.  That made them think that that if they put leptin in a tablet and gave it to overweight people, they would lose weight, but unfortunately this has not been the case.  As usual, human biology is too complicated for such a simplistic solution!

But having said that, leptin resistance does seem to be the key to solving the obesity problem, but again, we have to work a little harder at figuring out how to use this amazing discovery.

Simply put, leptin is the hormone that regulates our appetites and our metabolism.  It also regulates how much fat we are going to store and how much fat we are going to burn.  It is the hormone that regulates our body’s set-point, that is, the weight that our body naturally wants to settle at.  Quite obviously, this is an incredibly important hormone!

When this hormone is working correctly, it orchestrates the delicate balance of keeping our weight steady regardless of the amount of food we eat.  It does this by triggering thyroid hormones to speed up the metabolism and well as triggering fat burning by the liver. 

So when we gain weight, our own fat tissues release the hormone leptin which suppresses our appetite and speeds up our metabolism to burn off the fat so that we return to our original weight.  Can you believe it?  Our fat actually regulates itself and returns us to our optimal weight or set-point!  Leptin also helps us to feel full and satisfied after eating and reduces sugar and food cravings.  Basically, it tells us when to eat and when to stop.

This is why you will often see healthy slim people who eat amazing amounts of food, but they burn it all off.  We enviously attribute this to their incredible fast metabolisms.

And this is perfectly correct.  They do have fast metabolisms.  But the interesting thing is that this is the natural order of things. 

This is how our bodies were created and all human beings have this capability … until we unbalance our body’s natural weight-regulation system.  Yes, that’s right … if our bodies were working as nature intended, then if you gained a few pounds, your body’s natural weight-regulation system would burn them off automatically.

The problem is that when things upset this natural order, our bodies develop leptin resistance.  Our fat tissues are still releasing leptin, but our bodies become resistant to the hormone and it stops working effectively.  When this happens, our bodies lose the ability to burn off fat and return to our original weight and we start to gain weight instead.  This is the reason why just taking leptin tablets doesn’t work.  We have enough leptin in our system, we are just not using it effectively.

So simply put, leptin resistance is a chemical imbalance caused by your body’s resistance to the hormone leptin, so even if you have enough leptin, it is not being used properly.  This is very similar to insulin resistance.  These are both hormones which are essential to metabolism and if they do not work properly, it is impossible to regulate our weight efficiently.

This is extremely important to understand, because anybody who is overweight and has tried to diet to lose weight has felt the frustration, and even the shame, of not being able to lose weight and keep it off, and of not being able to resist the intense food cravings.  But please understand that it is not your fault.  You are not weak or lack willpower.  There is a physical, biological, chemical imbalance that is working against you and until you start to eat in a way to combat this chemical imbalance, you will never be able to lose weight and keep it off.

The Answers I’d Been Looking For

When I came across Leptin Resistance in my research, I was amazed because here was the scientific explanation of why my program worked!

I had never heard of this condition before, but over the years I had pieced together the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program that worked to not only help me to lose weight, but to overcome many health conditions that I had been suffering from including insulin resistance and diabetes, fibromyalgia, bloating, swelling, inflammation, water retention, hot flashes, hair loss, plantar fasciitis, burning sensations in my feet, poor memory and problems with concentration and much, much more.

What I noticed is that as I gained weight, I seemed to suffer from water retention, swelling legs and ankles, as well as fibromyalgia, and pain and burning sensations in my feet.  These pains made it more and more difficult for me to even walk short distances, let alone exercise.  This, of course, threw me in a vicious cycle of gaining more and more weight.

Now, interestingly enough, I had tried many different weight loss programs, including low fat, low carbohydrate, low GI, and calorie restriction, but what I found was that I was losing less and less weight on these diets and gaining it back in a very short period of time when I stopped dieting.  And following these diets did absolutely nothing to improve my health conditions and symptoms.

That was when I decided to research toxic overload and created my detox program and when I followed this program, I had the following results:

1)      Steady weight loss

2)      Reduction in water retention and swelling

3)      Stabilised my blood sugar levels

4)      Major improvement in my painful symptoms

5)      Much more energy

6)      Slept much deeper and better

7)      Felt better able to cope with the stress in my life

To say the least, I was extremely pleased with these results!

Now, I am not a scientist or a doctor.  I’m just someone who has tried to understand the confusing downward spiral my health has taken over the last number of years.  In order to understand what’s been happening, I have had to do a tremendous amount of research.  Some of it has been useful, but much of it hasn’t.  I had to use my own common sense and my intuition of what felt right for me and what didn’t and I have done a lot of trial and error in the process.

What excited me about finding this research on leptin resistance is that it has answered many questions I had about why my program worked.

I suspected that my inflammation and painful symptoms and weight gain had something to do with toxic overload because as soon as I stopped eating processed foods and started eating whole, natural foods and started taking steps to increase my detoxification through liver support, supplements and skin brushing, I not only lost weight, but my symptoms improved.  (My naturopath has helped me tremendously by putting together a supplement program that has been very effective in increasing my detoxification.  I strongly suggest finding an experienced naturopath to work with you to help you to detoxify naturally and safely.)

I figured out that I probably had so many toxins stored in my fat tissues that if I ate food that was processed and had a lot of chemicals in them, my system would overload and would not be able to detoxify the chemicals, which in turn caused inflammation and many health problems, including weight gain.

 The research I have read on Leptin Resistance agrees with this.

 So What Causes Leptin Resistance?

 There are many things that trigger this condition.  Here are the main ones:

1) stress and high cortisol levels

2) high triglycerides (binds to leptin making the leptin invisible to the brain by preventing it from crossing the blood-brain barrier)

3) insulin resistance

4) inflammation:  pro-inflammatory cykotines, tumor necrosis factor-alpha TNF-alpha, interlukin 6 and C-reactive protein

5) environmental toxins

6) food intolerances / allergies

7) starvation and dieting

Now as you know, I have been quite aware of how stress affects our health … I wrote an entire book on the subject! (Which is yours absolutely FREE when you purchase the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program.)  The research I had done on stress had taught me that stress is implicated quite strongly in insulin resistance and fluctuating blood sugar levels.  This in turn sets up a vicious cycle resulting in inflammation, with the inflammation triggering the release of yet more cortisol which is an anti-inflammatory hormone.

As I wrote about in my book on stress, cortisol actually causes the body to store more fat, especially in the abdominal area.  And the more fat and the more inflammation you have, the more leptin resistance you have.  So basically, chronic stress sets up a vicious cycle between cortisol production, insulin resistance and leptin resistance … all of which triggers weight gain and many health problems.

It is extremely important to learn how decrease stress levels naturally because if you can’t reduce your stress levels, the chances are that no matter how successful you are in your diet, you will probably always have problems with weight gain because the stress will continually sabotage your weight loss efforts and trigger continual Leptin Resistance and Insulin Resistance.

There are many ways stress and cortisol triggers Leptin Resistance and weight gain, especially in the abdominal area.

In simple English, stress elevates Cortisol, which causes fat cells to grow, especially in the abdomen.  And this fat gain triggers more inflammation which perpetuates the vicious cycle.  There are a number of symptoms caused by elevated cortisol levels including inflammation, high blood sugar levels, water retention (especially in the extremities), high blood pressure and increased risk of heart disease, problems concentrating as well as memory problems and “foggy brain” and much, much more.

Elevated cortisol also decreases a hormone called adiponectin.  This hormone is produced by the fat cells and is responsible for:

•       Suppressing appetite

•       Speeding up metabolism

•       Increasing fat-burning capabilities in your muscles

•       Preventing high blood pressure and protecting the heart and blood vessels

•       Lowering your fat levels and weight

•       Decreasing inflammation

It is interesting that the medical community is finally acknowledging the importance of chronic systemic inflammation and more and more doctors are now testing for it. 

So what is one of the main causes of inflammation?

Leaky Gut Syndrome would be one of the most prevalent causes, and this includes factors that may cause Leaky Gut Syndrome like NSAIDs (Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs), aspirin, antibiotics, the birth control pill, food intolerances, candida, and poor nutritional diets of junk food that are full of preservatives and chemicals and trans-fats.

How does Leaky Gut Syndrome trigger chronic inflammation?

Mainly this is caused by the immune system targeting the toxins and partially digested food particles as foreign substances (or antigens) and attacking them, which as time goes on often triggers auto-immune diseases where the body is attacking its own tissues.  It is also complicated by the fact that high cortisol levels suppress the immune system and makes it harder to do its job.

On top of that, the body’s detoxification organs (liver, kidneys, lungs, skin, etc.) can’t keep up with the increased levels of toxins travelling around the body, which means these toxins get deposited in tissues, accelerating inflammation.  This increased amount of inflammation triggers more cortisol to try to decrease inflammation. 

Higher levels of cortisol, especially at night, triggers insomnia, which means your body can’t repair itself during sleep as it should be.  (The high cortisol usually causes you to wake up around 2:00 to 3:00 in the morning, while it can take you anything from one hour to several hours to fall back to sleep because your mind just won’t shut down.) 

The cortisol also triggers food cravings, especially for sweets due to insulin impairment, as well as salty foods, due to interfering with sodium / potassium levels controlled by the adrenal glands.  This causes you to eat uncontrollably, which of course, causes weight gain.  And let’s not forget that you can’t comfortably exercise because of the high levels of pain and inflammation you have, which of course again makes it harder and harder to control your weight!

Triglycerides are the chemical form in which most fat exists in food as well as in the body. They're also transported in blood plasma like cholesterol. 

Triglycerides in blood plasma come from fats eaten in foods or are made in the body from other energy sources like carbohydrates, especially sugars. When you eat food and it isn’t needed immediately for energy, it is converted to triglycerides and transported to fat cells to be stored. If the body needs energy between meals, it releases hormones that trigger the release of triglycerides from fat tissue.

Higher than necessary levels of triglycerides cause many health problems, including causing fat storage.  This is because triglycerides bind to leptin making the leptin invisible to the brain by preventing it from crossing the blood-brain barrier

The leptin receptors are found in the brain and when leptin binds to the receptor, it sends signals into the brain.  The first signal is to stop hunger and suppress appetite and the next signal is to trigger an increase in metabolism to burn calories and fat from the food that was just eaten.  But if the receptors can’t bind to the leptin then these signals won’t happen, and one of the things that interferes with this binding is triglycerides.  This is one of the causes of Leptin Resistance.

When a person is Leptin Resistant, it takes more food to satisfy their appetite and their metabolism slows down and doesn’t burn the fat and calories quickly enough, which of course causes weight gain.

This would make people think that the best course of action then would be to follow a low carbohydrate diet, but unfortunately, most of the low carbohydrate diets on the market are too high in “bad” fats, which in turn triggers Leptin Resistance.  So although eating less processed carbohydrates is your best plan of action, you have to make sure that you are eating a high level of nutrient-rich food and eliminate processed foods and high “bad” fat foods totally from your diet.

Research has shown that leptin resistance can develop without you knowing it by eating lots of sugar and then when you start to eat a high fat, high calorie diet, the leptin resistance results in weight and fat gain.

Insulin resistance is when your body produces enough insulin to control blood glucose levels, but the body has developed a resistance to it and the insulin cannot bind to the insulin receptor properly.  This causes the body to excrete more and more insulin until finally the body can clear out the excess blood glucose.  If this goes on for too long, eventually insulin resistance will turn into diabetes.

Insulin resistance triggers a vicious cycle that looks something like this:

Insulin resistance --> causes high blood sugar levels --> which causes high cortisol levels --> which promotes fat storage --> which triggers inflammation --> which triggers leptin resistance --> which causes more weight gain … and on and on and on.

The “Diet Free … At Last!” e-book goes into extensive explanations about insulin resistance and diabetes.

Inflammation, especially chronic systemic inflammation (which means affecting your entire body), also plays a big part in leptin resistance.  The two often go hand in hand, although it can be difficult to ascertain which came first. 

So what problems does inflammation cause?  Inflammation triggers many different health conditions like arthritis, digestion problems, asthma, leaky gut, food intolerances and allergies and it now being thought that inflammation plays a key role even in conditions like heart disease and cancer, and yes, you guessed it … obesity.  (And the more fat you have, the more inflammation you have … another never-ending vicious cycle.)

This is an extremely important part of the puzzle that most of the diets out there do not take into account.  Most diets propose that weight gain is simply a matter of balancing the number of calories eaten against the number of calories burned off, and as I’ve said before, this is a much too simplistic view of weight gain.  Our bodies are much more sophisticated than that.  In particular, the hormone Leptin, amongst other hormones, plays a very important part in balancing our weight.  And inflammation also plays a very important part in this delicate balance.

There are many different things that can trigger chronic system-wide inflammation in the body, but one of the biggest causes is toxic overload, caused by eating processed junk food, food that is high in chemicals, preservatives and additives, and food that is high in sugar and fat content. 

And surprisingly enough, even eating so-called “low-fat diet food” can also exacerbate this problem, because most of these foods are very low in vitamins and nutrients and very high in chemicals and sugar.

Toxic overload is also a by-product of living in our 21^st Century world with all the pollution we are surrounded by.  We are assaulted by chemicals in the air we breathe, the water we drink and in everything around us.

Our bodies work extremely hard to detoxify us of all these chemicals.  Our detoxification pathways eliminate as many toxins as they can through our bowels, kidneys, liver, lungs and even our skin.  But with the high levels of toxins assaulting us everyday, our bodies cannot eliminate them all.

Our survival mechanisms are very strong and these toxins are actually poisons to our body, so in order to survive our body stores away these poisonous toxins in the only place that is safe to store them until we have a chance to eliminate them through our detoxification pathways.  And this storage place is in our fat tissues.

When we get caught up in this vicious cycle of weight gain and toxic overload, the body stores more and more of these toxins in our fat cells and we create more and more fat cells to use as toxic storage sites.  Unfortunately, the fat cells that store these toxins usually reach a point where the cell becomes very unstable and begin to leak and break open.  When this happens, white blood cells called macrophages are called in to clean up the mess.  These macrophages are the immune system’s scavengers or “garbage collectors”.  Sounds good so far, but unfortunately, it doesn’t stop there. 

Once these macrophages are in the fat cell, they trigger inflammatory chemicals (like pro-inflammatory cykotines, tumor necrosis factor-alpha TNF-alpha, interlukin 6 and C-reactive protein) and these inflammatory chemicals actually interfere with leptin and because they interfere with leptin, we lose our built-in mechanism to speed up metabolism and burn off fat.  This is when leptin resistance happens. 

When leptin is working properly in a healthy body, it perpetuates a delicate balance of speeding up and slowing down metabolism, storing and burning fat and suppressing and triggering appetite in order to keep your weight balanced.  When this mechanism is tampered with, it doesn’t work properly and you develop leptin resistance.  Once this happens, that delicate balance is destroyed and we are caught in an endless loop of slow metabolism, fat-storage, increased food cravings, hunger and increased appetite and of course the end result of this is endless weight gain.

And, as if the weight gain were not enough to contend with, a serious by-product of all this is chronic system-wide inflammation.  This inflammation causes many, many health problems including asthma, bronchitis, fibromyalgia, swelling, bloating, water retention, nerve damage, digestive problems, susceptibility to catching colds, flus and viruses, and much more.  If you are suffering from chronic system-wide inflammation it will affect every part of your body.  Your immune system will be working overtime trying to cope with putting out all these internal fires and as time goes on, you will get sicker and sicker.

Inflammation and leptin resistance go hand in hand and I think they are a major reason why we are faced with an epidemic of obesity and life-style diseases like diabetes, insulin resistance, syndrome x, heart disease and much more.

A very common side-effect of Leptin Resistance and Inflammation is that the inflammation often triggers food intolerances and allergies.  These food intolerances trigger many health conditions like asthma, bronchitis and leaky gut syndrome and very often cause various aches and pains, like fibromyalgia and peripheral neuropathy.

When you eat food that you are intolerant to, the body reacts by attacking the food as a foreign substance.  In the process, it also attacks our own tissues, which causes many health problems and symptoms. 

Many people are sensitive or intolerant to various foods that are commonly eaten and they don’t even know it.  These foods may even be favourite foods that are eaten on a regular basis.  People with food sensitivities exhibit a wide variety of symptoms including fatigue, digestive disorders (constipation, diarrhoea, flatulence, heartburn, burping, bloating), water retention, food cravings, headaches and migraines, skin rashes and eczema, sinus infections, nasal congestion, ear throat infections, ADD, ADHD, tantrums, irritability, bed-wetting, asthma, constantly clearing throat, muscle aches, and much more.

It's no wonder that Leptin Resistance is so prevalent in modern Society given that there are not many people who have never been on a diet.  That's why this program is so successful ... it is not a diet, you don't feel hungry, it stops food cravings and you lose weight while eating wholesome nutritious food. 

And by following the strategies in this program you can reverse Leptin Resistance so you can keep the weight off and stop yo-yo dieting forever!