Hormonal Imbalance Diet

Losing weight can be so hard. Weight loss with a hormonal imbalance can feel near impossible. I have been there.

I gained over 60 pounds during my second pregnancy and developed hypothyroidism. Hormonal imbalance weight loss is tricky. Today I will be sharing what I call my “hormone repair manual“.

In this blog post we will cover:

• Best diets for hormonal imbalance
• How to create a customized meal plan that works for you
• Symptoms of hormonal imbalance (with free checklist)
• How to do a factory reset to happy healthy hormones
• How I lost 50+ pounds healed my hormones and have kept it off effortlessly

So if you are tired of struggling to lose weight, falling off the wagon of every diet you start, constantly feeling hungry and deprived, and still never reaching your goal weight then you, my friend, are in the right place!

All of that is about to change for good!

Best Diets for Hormonal Imbalance (that doesn’t suck)

Can I be honest? I hate the word diet! In the US the word diet implies a start date and end date, depriving yourself, there are “cheat days”, and ultimately the word failure is most commonly associated with the word diet.

How many people do you know who have “started” a diet only to 1) be successful until they quit and then they gained all their weight back + some extra 2) fell off the wagon before they hit their goals?

My guess is you could not count them on one hand, and you might have been the first person that came to mind.

I get it, I have been there too.

Let’s get one thing out of the way up front. This hormonal imbalance diet is NOT a calorie restriction “diet”.

Personally, I have seen too much research about the harmful long-term effects calorie restriction has on the brain.

It is also something that the moment you deviate your metabolism is not able to process the excess and thus the weight that was lost comes back twice as fast + an extra 20 pounds or more…..

However, there are foods that are affecting your hormones, and your hormones are affecting your weight loss (or lack thereof).

An important note to make is all of our bodies are the same yet different.

This is my journey of what worked for me.

Food is either medicine nourishing our bodies or it is poison slowly killing them. Some foods are universally “bad”, like candy bars, soda, and other processed junk foods.

Others may honestly depend on the country you live in (how the foods are farmed), and genetics.

But if you have made your way to this post it is because you have not been able to lose weight, and most likely see the signs of hormonal imbalance as being a key factor.

Hormonal weight gain is one of the top reasons for obesity in women in the US today.

The meal plan that ended up working for me is Keto.

Clean Keto to be more specific.

Clean keto is removing dairy and processed foods that would otherwise be “keto-approved”.

Dirty keto as it is now called is basically just removing carbs, but if the junk food is low-carb friendly you can eat it.

How to Create a Customized Meal Plan

I want to ease your mind by offering you the big red easy button. In today’s fast-paced busy world the last thing to pile onto our to-do list is another diet or eating style to figure out.

One of the hardest parts of change is trying to figure out what you are doing.

I have had so many people tell me, “oh K’Lee I tried keto and it did not work”.

My response is always, “ok I get it, let’s try again but do it this way and see what happens”.

Nine times out of ten Clean Keto works for them. Which tells me it had to be one of two things. One they were not doing keto right, or two dirty Keto did not work for them but clean keto got rid of the foods causing the issues.

Either way, The Keto Custom Diet is the big red easy button.

The plan customizes a meal plan weekly for you. Taking out the guesswork and the hours of research and meal planning.

The Hormone Repair Manual

This is where the Hormone Repair Manual comes in. To understand how to reset your hormones back to “factory settings” we must understand what caused them to go haywire in the first place.

The reason why Clean Keto is the diet of choice when it comes to hormonal imbalance is that it removes inflammatory foods.

Inflammation and hormonal imbalance. No matter which one comes first it always leads to the other. Then round and round in a vicious cycle, they go.

Inflammation disrupts hormonal production.

Inflammation is like a huge wall blocking messages from getting to or from your hormone factory (endocrine system).

Hormones do a long list of important jobs in our bodies, one being to regulate our appetite.

If you want a weight loss plan that works with your body to control excessive hunger and cravings so that you can finally lose the weight for good you have to eliminate the foods that are “blocking the signals”.

You can try the Custome Keto Diet free for 7 days (click here)

Once I learned how food affected my hormones and implemented changes within the first 60-90 days I had dropped over 30 pounds (when NOTHING else had worked), and was able to start the process of weening my body free of the thyroid medication!

I will be honest I never counted carbs or macro or weighed my food. I saw this as a LIFESTYLE, not a diet.

Did I mention I hate the word diet? (lol)

Mindset, when you are starting, is everything! I printed a list of foods I COULD eat not ones I couldn’t. I rephrased things to “I choose not to have that” or simply “no thanks”.

Our minds are powerful and if we are thinking we are missing out or deprived how long do you think our sheer willpower will carry us?

I never thought about a cheat day, because who am I really cheating right? I mean I would never let my husband have a once-a-week (or month) cheat day on me….. why would I cheat on myself (my health) with food that is causing me to be sick?

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Symptoms of hormonal imbalance (with free checklist)

Let us quickly cover some of the most common symptoms that you may have an hormonal imbalance

• hormone imbalance dry skin
• itchy scalp hormonal imbalance
• hormone imbalance heavy periods (painful)
• vitamin d hormone imbalance (deficient)
• hormone imbalance after pregnancy (depression, inability to lose baby weight, etc)
• hormonal imbalance irregular periods
• progesterone deficiency (depression, mood swings, low libido, weight gain, hot flashes, headaches/migraines)
• estrogen dominance (heavy periods, irritability, mood swings, bloating, weight gain, irregular periods, hair loss, decreased sex drive, trouble sleeping, fertility issues, brain fog, night sweats)
• ridiges on the figure nails
• excessively dry skin

One of the quickest and easiest way to know for sure is to request a blood test for hormonal imbalance with your doctor. Endocrinoligists are doctors specializing in hormone imbalance.

Warning: doctors and specialists told me “healing my autoimmune system (thyroid) could not be done”. So please use the doctors as a guide in healing your hormones, but I am here to tell you no matter what they were taught in medical school I am one of hundreds maybe thousands who have healed my autoimmune system and you can too!

Quick Disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor. I am an everyday person just like you, who was frustrated and did not want to be on medication my whole life without ever actually fixing the problem. I call my posts I share how I used food as medicine, clean nontoxic living, and modern scientific tools and research to heal my autoimmune system and be free of all medication in hopes that you can find your own healing journey too.

How to do a factory reset to happy healthy hormones

Ok now that you have committed to making changes eliminating foods that are harming your hormones the key to reaching what I call a “full factory reset” is time.

My autoimmune system after having two high risk pregnancies were completely out of wack!

So for me personally I was clean keto for close to three years. I started slowly transitioning my dinners to more Paleo style eating and that is where we are today (7 years after starting our journey).

The 50+ pounds has stayed off naturally. After about 5 years I had completely weened my body free of needing any thyroid medication and I look and feel better than ever!

This version of eating my husband and I call the “human diet”. You know the real foods that grow out of the ground and that humans have eaten from the beginning of time?!?! (lol)

It was not until these Frankin-Foods, junk foods, fast foods, highly processed refined carb type foods cooked up in labs by scientist to be full of chemicals and ingredients to make us addicted so we buy more, that we now see that 1 in 6 women have an autoimmune disorder (autoimmune dysfunction).

How I lost 50+ pounds, healed my hormones, and have kept it off effortlessly

When we tell people we have not had refined sugar in over 7 years they normally look at us in shock.

When I tell them that our 14-year-old and 11-year-old sons have not had sugar in almost 2 years they are near dumbfounded.

Why?

Because our cultures tell us this is abnormal, too hard, or possibly even that it cannot be done.

It can friend, and with things like the Custom Keto Diet personalized meal planner, Pinterest, Youtube and thousands of recipes it is so much easier today than when I embarked on this journey!

Conclusion

The biggest factor in losing weight and resetting hormonal imbalances is creating a mindset for success. If you are ready to ditch the diet drama, get control of your hunger and cravings, reset and heal your hormones, and finally lose the weight for good, I urge you to start with the Custom Keto Diet meal planner (the big red easy button).

Click here to get started with your 7-day free trial.

Rachel worked with chefs, nutrientionists, and fitness instructors to develope meals that are geared toward weight loss that is healy, natural, sustainable, and delicious so you NEVER feel like your missing out!

I want the health and longevity I found in my journey for you too.

Invest in your health friend, you are worth it!

XOXO,

K’Lee