Is this your barrier to achieving a healthy body?

While weight loss plans routinely tout "scientific evidence" to back their claims, the fact is, any diet that results in a calorie deficit will produce weight loss. The problem is this: Depending solely on limiting your caloric intake while not including a healthy exercise routine will certainly help you lose weight, however, it will also slow down your metabolism - something counter-productive to healthy weight loss since a slower metabolism means you will burn less calories at a resting rate (the amount of calories being burnt when you are not exercising). As a result, with the proper exercise regimen you burn more calories even when you are not exercising.

That being said, some people appear to be exercising and eating the proper caloric intake, but still can't get their weight down. There are a number of things you need to consider if you have difficulty losing weight and I am going to give you some insight into this common problem:

"Why do so many people who feel chronically fatigued or burnt out and are told there is nothing wrong with them?"

Hormones are chemical messengers that travel through the blood, enter tissues and regulate cell function.  There are dozens of hormones in the body and many of these hormones work interdependently. The adrenal gland sits just above the kidney and it releases the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol as well as the androgen precursor DHEA-s.  DHEA-s is eventually converted into either estrogen or testosterone.   If the hormones from the adrenal glands are not produced or are not working efficiently, there can be a downstream negative impact on many systems in the body.  Stress is becoming more and more of a factor in many peoples lives. Careers, family, finances are some of the most common stressors.  However, diet or poor eating habits can also be stressors on the body.   When we feel stressed, our body naturally adapts by increasing certain stress hormones so we can maintain our level of functioning on a mental and physical level.  However, ask yourself what happens when we are faced with low grade chronic stress over a long period of time.  Your body typically begins to develop a number of symptoms: