Losing weight can be so hard, I have been there. I gained over 50 pounds in my second pregnancy which just would not seem to come off. Until I finally learned the 5 Secrets to Actually Stick to a Weight Loss Plan and Lost the Weight for Good!
That is what I will be sharing with you today!
- How I lost 50+ pounds and keep it off effortlessly
- How your hormones are affecting your weight and how to reset them
- The BEST diet for hormonal weight gain
- The psychology behind weight loss and how to get your mindset right
How I lost 50 pounds and keep it off effortlessly
When we are talking about weight loss over 40 nine times out of ten we are talking bout hormonal weight gain. Hormonal weight loss is not the same as “normal weight loss”. However, if you are over 40 and looking to lose weight and know for sure you have no hormonal issues, or hormonal imbalances this will STILL work for you too!
Most women cycle through at least three (often many more) times in their lives where one could say our hormones are out of wack. Puberty, pregnancies, and menopause (including pre-menopause often starting around age 40).
Our brilliant bodies are hardwired to return to our hormones to the ‘factory settings’ as I like to call them. However, in today’s world, it has become harder and harder to do that can boil down to two main reasons:
- Foods
- Toxins
For today to keep us on the topic today we will not be covering toxins BUT this is so important I have multiple posts dedicated to identifying and removing toxins from your home, beauty products, skincare, personal hygiene, and cleaning products.
Click Here for the full post with a free printable checklist.
Hormonal Health and Weight Loss
When it comes to losing weight the first thing we must understand is food is either medicine or it is poison. The foods we are eating are either nourishing our bodies or slowly poisoning them.
In America, we eat what is called the SAD diet, or the Standard American Diet. I am not sure anyone could find a more fitting acronym for US eating habits than SAD.
Losing weight over 40 gets a bit more tricky than it is at puberty or after pregnancy, hormonal issues, or otherwise.
Many women in perimenopause and early post-menopause gain fat mass as estrogen levels drop.
Women of childbearing age tend to store fat in their lower bodies (“pair-shaped”), while both men and women postmenopausal store excess fat in the abdominals (“apple-shaped”).
Estrogen imbalance around menopause can have big effects on weight gain or the ability to lose weight over 40.
The BEST Diet for Hormonal Weight Gain – The Custome Keto Diet
Food has a massive effect on our hormones. It is vital that we are eating foods that nourish and heal our bodies and not cause even more imbalance.
Many foods such as;
- Gluten
- Dairy
- Sugar
- Seed Oils
- Processed Refined Carbs (aka fast food/junk food)
All have an effect on our body called hormone disruptors. Foods that confuse our hormones in and of themselves can and often do throw our hormones out of wack.
During certain times in our lives when our hormones are already out of wack naturally, we have to be sure that we are actively doing all we can to get our hormones “back to factory settings”.
The Custom Keto Diet meal planner (click here to check it out) is what I like to call the big red easy button.
When I started Keto over 6 years ago after having baby number two I had gained over 50 pounds that would not budge.
I had seen multiple doctors and specialists over two years attempting to fix the problem.
The doctor ran thousands of dollars worth of tests to conclude, “sorry K’Lee everything looks ‘normal’ this is just something you are going to have to live with and manage but we can prescribe a diet pill we use with our patients.”
I was desperate to lose weight and refused to accept the answer the doctors had given me. I knew I had to figure out what was going on with my body and fix it!
I started doing tons of research and trying a lot of different things until I stumbled upon Keto. The internet and Youtube were not what it is today, and if Pinterest existed back then I did not know about it yet.
I want to save you the time it took me to figure everything out and tell you as a friend….
HIT THE EASY BUTTON!
At least for your first 60-90 days as you are learning and figuring it all out using the Custom Keto Meal Plan allows you to get meal plans for the week that are tailored to your lifestyle and taste buds.
I cannot tell you the amount of time this will save you. It will also help you avoid the pitfall so many of my friends and clients fell into.
They thought they had tried keto and it did not work for them, but in reality, they were doing it all wrong and that is why it had not worked for them.
I found personally that Clean Keto (no dairy and little to no processed foods) was the key to resetting the hormonal weight gain that I experienced after having my babies.
I later found that it works for just about any hormonal imbalance because no matter the age or hormonal change puberty, pregnancy, or menopause.
The foods that are eliminated by doing a Clean Keto diet are the ones causing or making worse the hormonal issues in the first place.
I have an entire blog post on the Top Vitamins & Supplements for Happy Hormones (Click Here).
However, if you are just starting out with vitamins and supplements let’s keep things simple in the beginning. I recommend 2 things that will tick off a lot of the boxes and are easy to remember.
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.
Do you wantmy favorite 30-Days The BEST Weight Loss Exercises at Home Workouts you can do in 10 minutes (free)? Click the link to read that post next!
A Good Green Drink
Without a doubt, none of us are getting all the fruits and veggies in our daily diets. I love green drinks because they save us both time and money!
We use to juice and OMG is that both expensive and time-consuming. Green drinks allow us to get all the nutrients we are missing into one quick drink.
For years, I am talking all the way back to the days my boys were drinking out of bottles, we have mixed up green drinks for them in the morning. My boys are now 14 and 11 and still drink their green drink every morning.
Let’s be real if we as adults do not eat the number of fruits and vegetables we should we can be sure our kids don’t!
I have loved Organifi for a very long time now. I use to follow Drew the founder way back in the “juicing” days and the guy knows his stuff.
I am not surprised he used his years of research to develop an “easy button” of his own.
I would read in the comment all the time how incredibly expensive all the organic fruits and veggies were, how expensive the juicers were, and how much time making and cleaning up the juicing would take.
If you have ever juiced I am sure you know and agree.
He heard the people and developed a solution.
Drews Green Drink – Organifi is loaded with so many great ingredients I often use it during my summer “slim downs” or just as a meal replacement in general.
Whether you are just trying to get your health back on track and reset your hormones to their healthy happy hormones state, or you are looking to lose weight and heal your hormones this is a one-stop-shop!
Again, as a busy mom who cares about my kid’s health but I am aware none of us get enough greens we have given it to our 10 & 14-year-old boys for years now.
Do you want 30-Days The BEST Weight Loss Exercises at Home Workouts you can do in 10 minutes (free)? Click the link to read that post next!
Hormonal Harmony Supplments
Ok so now we have cleaned up our eating using Clean Keto to detox from all the foods causing our bodies to harm and causing addictions and overeating. We have a green drink to be sure we are getting our daily dose of fruits and veggies AKA Nature multi-vitamins.
Now, let me offer to you one more solution to aid you to balance your hormones faster, which in turn means losing the hormonal weight gain faster.
I am a BIG fan of one supplement that does many things. Unlike my husband who takes countless amounts of supplements, I prefer the minimal approach.
Hormonal Harmony H5 is a supplement formulated by doctors where all the ingredients in the supplement are hand-picked for their power to boost hormonal health and aid in balancing hormones back to their ‘factory settings’ faster.
Hormonal Harmony has testimony after testimony of people losing weight after starting to use HB-5 which they credit as a positive “side effect” to balancing hormones naturally and safely.
This is NOT a diet pill. I would never recommend that route as they are often loaded with harmful ingredients that will just do more damage to your hormones.
Nine times out of ten all of the weight plus some come back as soon as people stop taking them too.
Total lose-lose situation.
The Psychology Behind Weight Loss and How to Get Your Mindset Right
Remember how I said I would tell you How I lost 50+ pounds and kept it off effortlessly? Now, let me tell you the “keep it off effortlessly” part of that sentence.
Mindset, mindset, mindset.
Starting anything is hard because it is new. That is why I recommend to EVERYONE to start by using the Custom Keto Meal planner.
This eliminates the first big diet speed bump that tends to knock everyone off the wagon.
And most never get back on again.
Once you have a clear plan to follow the rest is all mindset. I started keto with the perspective of I can have anything thing I want to eat, I CHOOSE not to eat certain foods that are making me sick.
Do you see the difference?
“I cannot have (fill in the blank) food.”
“No thanks I don’t want that food”
Said another way, I do not want food that is poison to my body. If you are like oh no K’Lee I still want it, then for now say “I choose not to have ______”.
Eventually, once the food addiction hooks have released their hold on you it really does become effortless to say “no thanks I don’t want any”……. and you actually mean it!
You don’t even WANT it!
1-on-1 Coaching Healthy Hormones
I wish I could cover in a single blog post the magic formula to resetting your hormones to Happy Healthy Hormones. There is a way for me to get 6 or 7 years of research and what I did to heal my autoimmune system naturally using food as medicine and clean nontoxic living into one condensed post.
Heck, I honestly do not know if I could fit it into one book.
But I do know that most of us need help and guidance, to know we are not alone, have support, and even accountability.
After coaching friends and family free for years I started having people ask how much I charge for my one-on-one coaching.
Funny enough up to this point I did not realize I was “coaching” so many people (lol). I was just excited about the newfound healing and weight loss that I was telling anyone who would listen in hopes it could help them too.
My husband and I are both total health nerds. Listening to health interviews, podcasts, and books is literally what we do with most of our free time for fun (lol don’t judge). My husband is 7 years older than I am and we know once a man or women hits that big 40 things change!
Our bodies have major changes that up to that point we had never experienced.
The “dad bod” comes out of now where. Men still eating the same diet and doing the same workouts, but Wowza the 30-50 pounds came out of nowhere!
Ladies, if puberty or pregnancies did not already get your hormones on a violent roller coaster buckle up buttercup because you are not in the clear yet.
We offer 1-on-1 coaching or couples coaching for helping you to avoid the hormonal imbalance quicksand that is lingering after one hits 40 and create a wellness lifestyle that keeps you looking and feeling younger than ever!
Conclusion
Hormonal health and weight loss go hand in hand. Knowing what foods are healthy for your hormones and which are causing harm to your hormones is key in being able to heal and reset them.
Your hormones have to return to their healthy ‘factory settings’ before hormonal weight gain will come off for good and stay off.
Losing weight over 40 almost always comes down to hormonal changes happening that we have never experienced so most have no idea what to do.
Starting with the Clean Keto for at least 90 days, I recommend more like 6 months then transitioning to a Keto(ish) for Breakfast and Lunch and Paleo(ish) for dinner is what I like to call the “Human Diet“.
Eating foods that were grown not produced in a lab, cutting out foods that over the years have been changed to the point they are unrecognizable.
Wheat is a good example of something that once was in a form that is nothing like we see today.
Clean eating allows our body to focus on what it needs, not trying to digest foods that are unrecognizable to our bodies as food with so many dyes, chemicals, additives, and so on.
I can tell you because I have journeyed this path before you it will work for you if you do the work!
xoxo,
K’Lee
We're an affiliate
We hope you love the products we recommend! Just so you know, we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. Thank you if you use our links, we really appreciate it!
DISCLAIMER: THIS WEBSITE DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE
The information, including but not limited to, text, graphics, images and other material contained on this website are for informational purposes only. The purpose of this website is to promote broad consumer understanding and knowledge of various health topics. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment and before undertaking a new health care regimen, and never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website.
