I’m starting a HGH and testosterone replacement program and I cant find anyone who will tell me how much weight they lost, muscle added etc? can anybody give personal experiences?
Taking hormones is NOT the way to lose weight safely and effectively. Taking an excess of hormones is a way to become hormone deficient. The body makes all your STEROID hormones from cholesterol and testosterone is a steroid hormone. Balance is the key to having a healthy body.
Losing weight is greatly misunderstood by the general public and medical doctors are probably even worse because in most cases they actually believe what they say to people.
Understanding FATS will help you greatly to get a grip on how to manage your weight the way you want. Eating low fat meals and those non fat, low fat food products are some of the worst things you can eat, both nutritionally and to lose weight.
How your body processes fat, in general, is an important aspect of how your body deals with fats. Carbohydrates are like the kindling on a fire; they give you fast, immediate energy, but only lasts an hour or two, then you are hungry again. They drive up the blood sugar, then the body forces it down with glucagon and the result is heavy CORTISOL production that attempts to maintain your energy levels. This is why so many people are saying to eat 6 meals a day. That is just stupid logic, but it is the best way to resolve the insanity that happens with the blood sugar spikes from eating all those carbs.
FATS on the other hand, give you long sustained energy. You can go for hours without getting hungry and your body loves fats. The fat tissue actually secretes a hormone called Leptin that tells your body how to utilize insulin and glucagon. A very basic survival mechanism built into us all is triggered by how we eat fat. If you eat lots of good fats and get most of your calories from fat, your body knows it’s not starving. But, if you eat very little fats, your body thinks it’s starving and that slows your metabolism down.
Cholesterol is NOT A FAT, but a form of an alcohol. It is used to transport fatty acids around the body, produce bile that sanitizes the colon, and makes all those steroid hormones from it. Most of the weight problem people have in America today is due to eating way too many sugars, carbs, and having low hydrochloric acid production, as well as eating all the BAD fats from vegetable oils like canola, soybean, cottonseed, and corn oils; eating fried foods; eating trans fats especially from heating those vegetable oils that forms the trans fats, and not eating the good fats.
Your best course of action is to read the book "Eat Fat, Lose Fat" by Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. She is the world’s foremost expert on fats and oils.
good luck to you