Aug 18, 2020 at 05:10 PM
I am a fitness professional. I train clients for strength, overall health and guide them with nutrition. I myself am struggling with losing weight no matter what I do. I hired a sports nutrionist and after 4 months of tweaking carbs, protein, fat, hours of eating I still have not lost weight or gained muscle. He suggested getting blood work to test certain hormones. Guess what? My Leptin levels were 2.8 and for a female it should be at LEAST a level of 4. That explains why I am hungry even after I eat and do not lose weight. Unfortunately there is really nothing out there the raises Leptin levels. We are trying a refeed every Saturday consisting of an extra 50mg of carbs in the day. We switched my workouts from mixed modality to slower longer workouts along with my 4 days a week of strength training.
For some back ground I was bulimic for almost 2 decades and apparently that can cause a disfunction in Leptin production.
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