3 actionable quick tips to Hormonal Balance

Want to achieve Hormonal Balance?

Let’s skip the fluff and go straight to the actionable quick tips that you can implement immediately.

Quick Tip 1: TAKE A 30-60 mins LEISURE WALK

This is the simplest way to ramp up your fat burning results after you work out. It sounds strange, but a post-workout walk is incredibly effective for your fat-burning metabolism. Exercise elevates your level of cortisol, the primary stress hormone. This is natural and even beneficial. Short spikes in cortisol post-exercise are an important part of the hormonal soup that allow you to burn fat. However, elevated cortisol levels over the long-term have the exact opposite effect. They cause you to pile on more fat, especially around your belly. Walking leisurely is one of the few forms of movement that actually drives cortisol levels down. This means if you take a short walk after your workout, you'll bring your cortisol levels down faster, and that is likely to enhance your results. So go for a walk after your workout. And whenever possible, take a 20-, 30-, or even 60-minute walk on the days you don't work out. I'm talking about moving at a nice, leisurely pace.

Quick Tip 2 :PRACTICE REST BASED TRAINING & REST’ N’ RECOVERY WORKOUTS

If you try and do high intensity, non-stop, very long workouts, you are just causing more metabolic stress on the body (which means higher levels of cortisol, which means storing that weight around the tummy area). Workouts do not need to be longer than 30mins.

Rest based training is there, not for you to take it easy, but to push yourself as far as you can go, then stop and rest when you need to (rather than when your trainer tells you to). Like this you will have a better posture, technique and form once you have rested.

So the workout mantra is ‘’Push until you can’t, rest until you can!’’

Also make the time for rest and recovery sessions by doing things that are going to lower your stress and keep that stress cortisol hormone down. Sessions such as walking, restorative yoga, taking an Epsom salt baths, massage, spending time in nature or with your pets or loved ones, watching a funny comedy or meditation. (These do not include scrolling social media or watching something intense on television).

Quick Tip 3: MONITOR YOUR S.H.M.E.C.

You can be your own metabolic detective by monitoring regularly your SLEEP, HUNGER, MOOD, ENERGY & CRAVINGS on a scale from 1 to 10. (check out the picture below).

This is key to seeing how your body is progressing over time—not only in what you see (inches and kilos), but also in what you don't see (your S.H.M.E.C.). Remember the mainstream, "go to" eating and exercise models are both unrealistic and unsustainable. They can even damage your metabolism — which keeps you overweight and unhealthy in the long-term.

Research has shown over and over again that diets don't work because they're "one size fits all." They do not account for YOUR individual metabolism.

Hormonal Reboot is NOT "another diet." It's a blueprint that teaches you to read your metabolism so you can design a sustainable diet and exercise routine that works for YOU.

Just paying attention to your Sleep, Hunger, Mood, Energy and Cravings (SHMEC) will indicate exactly what you need to do to adapt the program to your personal needs.

There you go!

3 quick tips to help you achieve Hormonal Balance.

I have tried all 3 myself, (including my clients on my Hormonal Reboot program) and they all work amazingly well.

Now, go forth and implement!

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