The Setpoint Diet is based on the concept that your body has a what is known as a setpoint weight.

SANE Setpoint Diet At a Glance:

This is a small, roughly ten pound window within which your body will fight to keep your body fat percentage. If you have a raised setpoint, your body will literally fight to keep fat.

On the other hand if you work to lower your setpoint weight, as we will show you how, your body works with you to lose weight and burn fat all day long. That way your body works just like one of those naturally thin folks who never seem to have to worry about what they eat.

Setting the SANE Setpoint Diet Stage:

If you have ever seen anyone like this, you are looking at someone who has a low setpoint weight. And you can enjoy one as well!

Keep reading to find out how. In order to lower your setpoint weight, you need to eat SANE.

SANE Setpoint Diet

Postmenopausal weight loss is probably something you haven’t heard much about. That’s because most articles focus on the problems with postmenopausal weight gain. They make weight gain during this time in your life sound inevitable. But it doesn’t have to be, especially when you are on the setpoint diet.

Postmenopausal Weight Loss and the Setpoint Diet

The setpoint diet promotes postmenopausal weight loss because it focuses on the underlying cause of weight gain during these special years. That means with the setpoint diet, you won’t be counting calories. You won’t be starvation dieting. Rather, you’ll be enjoying your fill of delicious real food scientifically proven to heal your hormones, stabilize blood sugar levels, heal neurological inflammation, and lower your setpoint weight.

The setpoint diet spurs menopausal weight loss in part by targeting the hormonal cause of menopausal weight gain. The easy dietary changes you’ll make with the setpoint diet rebalance your hormones, enabling your body to burn excess calories automatically. It also addresses the metabolism-lowering muscle loss that occurs with age and with menopause. With the setpoint diet, you’ll eat foods that prevent muscle loss and build new muscle.

Before discussing the exact way you can use the setpoint diet for menopausal weight loss, let’s take an in-depth look at menopause.

What is Menopause?

Menopause signals the end of a woman’s childbearing years. The average age that U.S. women experience menopause is 51, though it can occur much earlier. There are three stages of menopause: perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause.

Perimenopause (Around Menopause)

Perimenopause refers to the years leading up to the cessation of your menstrual period. It usually begins a few years before menopause, typically when you’re in your 40s. The average length of perimenopause is 4 years, but it can last for 10 years or more. During perimenopause, your ovaries gradually begin producing less estrogen. In the last 1-2 years of perimenopause, levels of estrogen significantly drop, as do levels of progesterone and testosterone. These declining hormonal levels trigger the cascade of menopausal symptoms most women experience.

Menopause

For simplicity’s sake, most articles use the word “menopause” when referring to all three stages of menopause. However, menopause refers only to the moment when a woman has not had a menstrual period for 12 consecutive months. If you go most of the year without a period but then have a period in the 11th month, you must start over again, counting another 12 months. This length of time is required to ensure your ovaries no longer make estrogen and progesterone, two hormones that are absolutely essential for fertility.

Postmenopause (After Menopause)

As soon as a woman hits menopause she is in postmenopause, the years after menopause lasting the rest of her life. Research shows the symptoms of menopause may continue for a few years into postmenopause — four to five years is the average — but they become less frequent. They also tend not to be as intense as they were during the perimenopausal years.

The average length of perimenopause is four years but can be much shorter or last much longer. Perimenopause ends when you have not had a menstrual period for 12 consecutive months.

Menopause Symptoms

Your entire reproductive system undergoes vast changes during menopause. Your internal reproductive organs, genitalia, breasts…all are influenced by hormonal changes that occur during this time.

Declining levels of your reproductive hormone levels — such as estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone — are responsible for a host of menopausal symptoms, including:

Hot flashes/Night Sweats. These are sudden, usually brief increases in body temperature. Though we don’t know exactly what causes them, they start when blood vessels near the surface of the skin expand to cool off. This causes a sudden feeling of heat along with sweating. Hot flashes are the most common symptom of perimenopause, experienced by about 75% of menopausal women.
Irregular Periods: You may skip your period for a few months and/or your periods can be heavier or lighter than usual. Irregular periods are more common in the final 1-2 years of perimenopause when hormonal levels take a huge nosedive.
Breast Tenderness: Fluctuating and reduced levels of estrogen and progesterone affect breast tissue, causing tenderness and even pain.
Vaginal Dryness: A reduction in estrogen causes the vagina to lose elasticity. Vaginal thinness and dryness is the result.
Reduced Sex Drive: Reduced levels of estrogen and testosterone can result in reduced sex drive for some women during perimenopause.
Mood Swings: Fluctuating hormone levels lead to often widely fluctuating moods.
Sleep Disturbances: Night sweats can interrupt sleep.
Weight Gain: Hormonal changes during menopause often leads to weight gain, especially in the abdominal area.

Most women experience at least some of the above symptoms during perimenopause.

Causes of Postmenopausal Weight Gain (or What Makes Postmenopausal Weight Loss so Hard!!!)

Though many of the symptoms of menopause are bothersome, many women regard postmenopausal weight gain as being the most frustrating symptom of menopause. Studies show many women gain an average of 10-15 pounds during perimenopause, at a rate of about 1 pound per year. The cute-sounding “muffin top” or “menopot” (menopause potbelly) is not a feature most women want, especially since it tends to stay around.

Is this something you’ve experienced? No matter what you do, the postmenopausal weight gain — that extra fat in your belly that seemed to just spring up overnight — will not go away. You’ve tried dieting it off, exercising it off, steam-rooming it off. Nothing works. It is this menopot that most people are referring to when they talk about menopausal weight gain. It is this menopot that we are referring to, along with weight gain in other parts of the body, when we discuss how the setpoint diet promotes postmenopausal weight loss later in this article.

There are many reasons for postmenopausal weight gain. Here are a few of the most common ones.

1. Hormonal Changes

Research shows hormonal changes during menopause can cause weight gain. However, hormone-related weight gain tends to occur mainly in the stomach area. Here are the hormones most responsible for weight gain during menopause.

Estrogen

Estrogen is the primary female hormone, responsible for many reproductive functions. It also has a lot to do with metabolism and regulation of weight. A few years prior to menopause, a woman’s estrogen levels begin to dip, making her body hold onto fat. Though frustrating, extra fat storage and weight gain is a symptom of your body’s efforts to retain estrogen.

You see, when your ovaries start producing less estrogen, your body has to search for other sources of estrogen. As fat cells produce estrogen, your body tries to increase your levels of estrogen through your fat cells. So, it converts more calories you consume into fat specifically to increase your estrogen levels.

Why the “menopot,” though?

Well…research shows declining estrogen levels cause fat cells in the abdominal area to store more fat. It actually redistributes body fat to your stomach area. Studies also show lowered estrogen levels also cause a drop in resting metabolic rate. Both of these lead to increased belly fat.

Progesterone

Progesterone is essential for regulating ovulation and menstruation. Unlike estrogen, progesterone does not cause excess fat accumulation. Low levels of progesterone, however, often cause water retention and bloating. This can make your clothes fit more snugly, giving you the feeling and perhaps even the appearance of weight gain.

Testosterone

Testosterone is commonly thought of as a male hormone, but both men and women need adequate testosterone levels to keep their setpoint low and their weight in check.

Most adult women have about the same testosterone levels as a 10-year-old boy. That’s part of the reason it’s harder for women to burn fat and build muscle than it is for men. Perimenopause causes testosterone levels to plummet, which promotes fat storage, inflammation, and muscle loss. This can cause insulin resistance and belly fat.

As you can see, having these hormones in the proper balance is so very important for your health and for postmenopausal weight loss. Fortunately, the setpoint diet helps rebalance these and other hormones so that you can safely and permanently lose weight.

2. Insulin Resistance

When you consume carbs and sugar, they are converted into glucose and absorbed into your bloodstream. The hormone insulin is then released to shuttle the excess glucose into your cells for energy or to be stored for later use. Your cells cannot open to accepting glucose without insulin. Insulin resistance is a condition in which your cells no longer recognize insulin and will not accept glucose. This results in higher blood glucose levels, weight gain, and almost certainly type 2 diabetes if it goes on long enough.

Many studies show estrogen optimizes how a woman’s body processes glucose. During a woman’s childbearing years, estrogen helps increase insulin sensitivity. Estrogen appears to help protect women from high blood glucose levels, consequent weight gain, and type 2 diabetes. But when estrogen levels drop significantly after menopause, just the opposite occurs — postmenopausal women are at increased risk of insulin resistance.

3. Age

When it comes to menopausal weight gain, it is not clear how much of it is due to menopause and how much of it is due to age. After all, it is a fact that most people tend to gain weight as they get older. There are a couple reasons for this.

The first is hormonal dysregulation. Weight gain and a slower metabolism as you age start in your brain with inflammation of the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is the part of your brain that is in charge of balancing calories in and calories out so that ideally the body never becomes too fat or too thin.

But as almost everyone has experienced, as the years go by, this balance becomes upset and the body packs on extra pounds because it is getting the wrong messages from the brain and the hormones. Specifically, the inflamed hypothalamus no longer receives correct signals from the hormones. Now, instead of working to keep you naturally slim, your hypothalamus and hormones work to hold on to extra fat, no matter how hard you try to lose the weight.

The other reason most people gain weight as they grow older is because of a loss of muscle. Age-related muscle loss, called sarcopenia, affects everyone to a certain extent. Muscle is in a constant state of breaking down/rebuilding. Up until the age of 30 or so, the rebuilding process is quicker than the breaking down process. Sometime in your 30s, the reverse happens — muscle breaks down quicker than it is rebuilt. Consequently, you can lose 3% to 5% of your muscle mass each decade after the age of 30 if you’re inactive. (You’ll lose some muscle mass even if you are active.) Less muscle results in a slower metabolism.

Health Risks of Postmenopausal Weight Gain

Hormones, particularly estrogen, protect women from many weight-related health conditions during their childbearing years. When levels of these hormones significantly and permanently drop, as they do in her postmenopausal years, it puts her at increased risk of these same diseases.

Most of these risks occur because of the increased levels of postmenopausal belly fat.

Dangerous of Belly Fat

There are two types of belly fat: subcutaneous and visceral.

Subcutaneous fat lies beneath the skin and is located all over the body, not just in the stomach area. This is the fat you can pinch between your fingers. Though subcutaneous fat may not be aesthetically pleasing to some people, research indicates it is likely not that dangerous for your health.

Visceral fat is stored deep within your abdominal cavity, surrounding and even wrapping around the liver, intestines, and other important organs. Fat cells are not just storage lockers for calories. They are metabolically active, pumping out hormones, inflammatory agents, and other substances. Many researchers believe visceral fat cells send these substances through the bloodstream, via the nearby portal vein, which increases the risk for many serious and deadly health conditions, including:

Abnormal Cholesterol Levels
Metabolic Syndrome
Type 2 Diabetes
High Blood Pressure
Heart Disease
Stroke

How to Achieve Postmenopausal Weight Loss

If the above makes postmenopausal weight loss seem hopeless to you, that you’re just a victim to your hormones, think again. The setpoint diet helps you rebalance those hormones. And unlike other diets you may have been on, you’ll LOVE the setpoint diet.

Before discussing the exact foods that will rebalance your hormones, trigger fat-burning hormones, spur muscle protein synthesis and more, let’s talk about one of the main reasons for weight gain: hormonal dysregulation.

Hormonal Dysregulation

One of the main reasons most people cannot lose weight and keep it off is because they have what we call a “hormonal clog” that keeps their setpoint weight elevated. When you have a hormonal clog, your brain can no longer rely on signals from your hormones that would otherwise enable you to burn body fat automatically.

The easiest way to understand how a hormonal clog elevates your setpoint weight is to think about your body as functioning like a sink. If you pour water into a properly working sink, the water will drain right out. No matter how much water you pour into the sink, the water drains out. If you pour a lot of water in the sink all at once, the water level will rise temporarily. But the sink will take care of it. The sink is balancing water in and water out at a low level. You can think of a working sink, then, as having a low setpoint.

A hormonally healthy body works the same way, working to prevent excess body fat from accumulating. A healthy body, like a “healthy” sink, responds to more in with more out, and to less in with less out. When water builds up in sinks and fat builds up in bodies, it is because they have become clogged. Why do they become clogged? Because the wrong things are put into them.

When you have a clogged sink, any amount of water IN will cause the water level to rise and stay high. This sink now has an elevated setpoint.

Hormonal Clog and Setpoint Weight

Think of your body in the same way. When you put poor-quality of food into it, your body becomes hormonally clogged. This causes it to automatically balance you out at an elevated level of body fat. You become overweight or obese because hormonal dysregulation elevated your setpoint weight.

What is the setpoint weight?

Your setpoint is that weight your body seems to always want to keep you at or near. (Setpoint weight actually varies by 10-15 pounds.) Your brain, digestive system, and hormones talk to one another through various feedback loops to synchronize the activities that automatically maintain body fat and blood sugar at a specific level, known as your setpoint.

Think of the biological feedback system that establishes your setpoint like the thermostat in your house. Thanks to the thermostat, your heating or air-conditioning system respond to the weather outside and keep your home at whatever temperature the thermostat “thinks” it should be at. Similarly, your setpoint stimulates or suppresses your appetite and raises or lowers metabolism—your body’s food-to-fuel process—in response how much fat it “thinks” you should store.

Why Crash Diets Never Work

Your setpoint weight is the reason why crash dieting has never worked for you — and why it definitely won’t work for postmenopausal weight loss. When you slash calories, your body sends an emergency alert to your brain. It thinks you are starving, and it does everything it can to prevent that. The brain orders a release of hormones that make you hungry, tired, weak. It slows your metabolism and sends most of the calories you consume straight to your fat cells. None of this brings you closer to your goal.

Sure, you will lose weight on a crash diet. But research shows most of the weight loss comes from water and muscle. And your crash diet scared your body so much it raised your setpoint weight even higher, ensuring you’ll gain back all the weight you lost — and then some — as soon as you start eating normally again.

The only way to permanently lose weight is to work with your setpoint, not against it. When you lower your setpoint weight with the setpoint diet, you will effortlessly lose weight — and it will stay off.

Causes of an Elevated Setpoint Weight

We’ve already discussed one of the causes of an elevated setpoint weight for postmenopausal women — hormonal dysregulation. Here are a few factors that dysregulate hormones:

Poor-Quality Diet

Eating a steady diet of refined carbs, sugar, and highly processed foods cause surges in your blood sugar levels. It also causes neurological inflammation and a hormonal clog.

Stress

Most people live under constant stress these days. The problem is that when stress becomes chronic, your body constantly releases setpoint-elevating cortisol, which constantly triggers a release of insulin, a fat-storage hormone. Both cause weight gain, especially in the tummy, and much of it is dangerous visceral fat.

Sleep Deprivation

Research also shows a lack of sleep can cause weight gain. This is because sleep deprivation appears to dy-sregulate hormones dealing with hunger management, blood sugar control, and food cravings.

Postmenopausal Weight Loss and the Setpoint Diet

The great thing about the setpoint diet is that it focuses on having you eat MORE high-quality food rather than less low-quality food. The goal is to becomes so full of SANE setpoint diet foods that you’ll be too full of inSANE starches, refined carbs, sugars, highly processed foods, etc.

Why eat more high-quality food? Because if you get the quality right, the quantity will take care of itself. You see, calories are important, but it is not your job to count them. As previously mentioned, the hypothalamus balances calories in with calories out so that you never become too fat or too thin.

High-quality calories help clear the hormonal clog, allowing your hormones to send correct messages to your hypothalamus. These hormones tell the brain when you’ve had enough to eat, naturally preventing you from overeating. No willpower necessary!

When deciding on high-quality foods, choose ones that are “most alive.” For example, cereal that has been sitting on a shelf forever is NOT alive. Compare that to a bag of leafy green non-starchy vegetables that are currently alive…or delicious salmon that was alive a few days ago…and you’ll automatically know which one to choose.

Foods to Eat on the Setpoint Diet for Postmenopausal Weight Loss

Within the primary SANE food groups of non-starchy vegetables, nutrient-dense protein, whole-food fats, and low-fructose fruits, there are optimal options that will fast-track your progress.

Non-Starchy Vegetables

10+ servings per day

If you count anything in the setpoint diet, count your servings of non-starchy vegetables. How much is one serving? Here is a simple rule: If raw and leafy, a serving is the size of two of your fists. If raw and not leafy, a serving is the size of your fist. If cooked, a serving is a little smaller than the size of your fist.

The fiber content of non-starchy veggies fill you up fast and keep you full for a long time, for a relatively small number of calories. It also provides plenty of nutrition for your cells.

When starting the setpoint diet, be sure to gradually increase your servings of non-starchy vegetables. This helps you avoid gastrointestinal distress.

Optimal Choices

Optimal choices are leafy green vegetables and include:

Alfalfa
Arugula
Bok Choy
Barley Grass
Brussels Sprouts
Chard
Garlic
Greens
Kale
Kelp
Mixed Greens
Romaine Lettuce
Seaweed
Spinach
Watercress
Wheat Grass

Other great veggies you could eat raw or cooked to help get your 10 plus servings include:

Alfalfa sprouts
Artichoke
Asparagus
Bean Sprouts
Beets
Bell Peppers
Broccoli
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
Cucumber
Eggplant
Green Beans
Mushrooms
Onions
Peppers
Squash
Sugar Snap Peas
Tomatoes
Zucchini

Nutrient-Dense Protein

3-6 servings per day, 30-55 grams of protein per meal.

Protein triggers short- and long-term satiety hormones, which is the reason why protein is so filling. But protein does something else that is incredible…if you consume around 30 grams of protein at a sitting, it triggers muscle protein synthesis. This enables your body to preserve muscle mass while also burning fat.

A food is a nutrient-dense protein if it is found directly in nature and more of its calories come from protein than from fat or carbohydrate. (Exceptions include some low-sugar and low-fat dairy products and natural SANE approved protein powders/bars.)

You can determine whether a food gets more of its calories from protein than from fat or carbohydrate by following these three easy steps.

Look at the nutrition label and multiply the grams of protein in a serving by 4.
Divide that number by the number of calories in a serving.
Multiply by 100 and that’s the percent of calories in the food from protein.

But here’s a list to make things easier for you.

Optimal Choices

Oysters
Clams
Mussels
Liver
Salmon
Sardines
Anchovies
Sea Bass
Tuna

Other great nutrient-dense protein choices:

Catfish
Chicken
Cod
Cottage Cheese
Egg Whites
Flounder
Grass-Fed Beef
Ham
Lamb
Lean Conventional Beef
Plain Nonfat Greek Yogurt
Pork
Shrimp
Snapper
Calamari
Tilapia
Trout
Turkey

Whole-Food Fats

3-6 servings per day

Ideal whole food fats actually come from whole foods, not refined liquids or spreads. As a general rule of thumb, a food is a whole-food fat if it’s found directly in nature and more of its calories come from fat than from protein or carbohydrate. You can determine this the same way you did for protein except multiply grams of fat per serving by 9 (since fat has 9 calories per gram…not 4 like protein).

A serving is about the size your middle and pointer finger side by side. If the nuts are mashed into butter (i.e., natural nut butter), a serving is the size of your thumb. Two whole eggs are a serving.

Optimal choices include:

Coconut
Coconut Milk
Cocoa/Cacao
Cocoa/Cacao Nibs
Avocado
Flax Seeds
Chia Seeds
Macadamias
Olives

Other great whole-food fats include:

Almonds
Brazil Nuts
Chestnuts
Whole Eggs
Hazelnuts
Hemp Seeds
Pecans
Pistachios
Pumpkin Seeds
Sunflower Seeds
Walnuts

Low Fructose Fruits

0-3 servings per day

Low-fructose fruits are available only to add a little spice to your diet. You don’t need to consume any fruit. Non-starchy veggies can do everything fruit can do, with about 10 times less sugar.

Optimal Choices:

Optimal low-fructose fruits have the least sugar and the most nutrition. These include:

Acai Berry
Goji Berry
Noni Fruit
Purple Aronia
Mangosteen

Other good low-fructose fruits include:

Blackberries
Blueberries
Boysenberries
Cranberries
Cantaloupe
Casaba Melon
Cherries
Coconut Water
Grapefruit
Guava
Lemon
Lime
Nectarine
Papaya
Peaches
Raspberries
Rhubarb
Strawberries

The Setpoint Diet, Postmenopausal Weight Loss, and YOU

That’s pretty much it for the nutritional portion of the setpoint diet. As long as you concentrate on eating MORE non-starchy veggies, nutrient-dense protein, and whole-food fats, you will eat less of the inSANE stuff. The result? Postmenopausal weight loss will be a breeze.

Just remember the SANE motto: Progress, not Perfection.

As long as you’re moving forward, you’re doing okay. If you occasionally eat something inSANE — and who doesn’t?!!! — it’s not the end of the world…or your setpoint diet.

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Women’s World SANE Review: How to Achieve Automatic Weight Loss (By Lowering Your Setpoint)

Automatic Weight Loss: Women’s World Review of The Setpoint Diet

Do you think automatic weight loss is impossible? We don’t blame you. Like everyone else, you’ve probably been taught — and know from your own experience — that losing weight is hard. There is nothing easy or automatic about it.

To lose weight, the “experts” tell you, you have to really work at it. You have to count the calories of every food you eat or think of eating while exercising like crazy. You also have to…well…starve yourself. Starvation is the only way you’ll be able to force your body to burn fat, the “experts” also tell you. (By starvation, we mean dropping your calorie intake below what your body needs.)

What these “experts” never really tell you is that starving your way to slim never keeps you slim. Everyone who has ever gone on a starvation-type diet knows this to be true. How many times have you lost 20 or 30 pounds, only to gain it all back plus a dozen more pounds after you go off the diet? Probably too many times to count. Right?

Well…that was then. Today is a new day. Hundreds of thousands of people have achieved automatic weight loss by following the simple plan outlined in The Setpoint Diet book. The plan is so effective that Woman’s World magazine featured the setpoint diet as their success story of the week. Woman’s World not only details the diet, but it also tells the stories of three women who used the setpoint diet to achieve automatic weight loss.

One of them, 80-year-old Jean Simmons, was living in a nursing home when she discovered Jonathan Bailor’s setpoint diet. Wanting to experience automatic weight loss, she asked the nursing home staff for help in increasing vegetables and protein in her diet. Within five months, she dropped 50 pounds, regained her strength, and left the nursing home.

Today Jean is physically active, healthy and happy. Jean’s story is not unique. The automatic weight loss that she and hundreds of thousands of people have experienced can also be yours.

The Setpoint Diet Way to Automatic Weight Loss

The Setpoint Diet differs from other diets in that it is based on solid science. For more than 15 years, Jonathan Bailor painstakingly analyzed hundreds of peer-reviewed, double-blind clinical research studies regarding the metabolism and the causes of weight gain/loss. (Double-blind studies are when neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is given a certain treatment. Double-blind studies help prevent biased research results and are thus considered the highest standard in clinical research trials.)

Jonathan’s 15+ year research odyssey was prompted by more than just idle curiosity. To pay his way through college, the naturally thin Jonathan had gotten a job as a personal trainer at a popular gym. His job was to help his clients lose weight, yet he was less than successful (to put it mildly.)

Jonathan’s Failure…

Day-by-day, his clients — smart, professional, ambitious, health-conscious men and women — told him they were not losing the amount of weight they should be losing. They were frustrated, becoming more so each time he told them they needed to “give it time.” And like a good personal trainer, he gave them advice, too. They needed to work harder, he told them. Eat less and exercise more. After all, for as long as anyone can remember, that’s what the “experts” have always said is necessary for weight loss. That principle was a central part of Jonathan’s training as a personal trainer.

While Jonathan was telling his clients to work harder, he was downing shots of olive oil to try to gain weight. One day, while he was taking his daily shot of olive oil, Jonathan had an epiphany. What if, he thought, some muscular guy was looking at him thinking that if he only tried harder, he’d be able to gain weight and build muscle.

And His “Automatic Weight Loss” Breakthrough

In that instant, Jonathan realized he and his clients were in the same boat. He couldn’t gain weight and they couldn’t lose it. And they were both getting sicker and more unhappy by the day trying something that obviously didn’t work.

Jonathan quit his job as a personal trainer because he couldn’t bear hurting his clients anymore with advice he now knew was incorrect. But it ignited a passion in him to discover the truth that he — and almost everyone else — had been denied.

Hoping for direction in how to proceed, Jonathan turned to his college professor parents. They told him that the failure with weight gain/loss he and his clients were experiencing was likely an information problem. They advised him to consult primary research studies to find out what science says about metabolism and weight issues.

Thus began his long research journey. And what he discovered shocked him. Nothing, absolutely nothing he had been taught about weight gain/loss was true. Nothing.

It’s Not About Calories

One of the biggest “untruths” Jonathan discovered is weight gain and loss is not about the number of calories you take in or exercise off. It’s not about intentionally creating a calorie deficit. Rather, your weight is controlled by your setpoint.

In simple terms, setpoint weight is that the level of stored fat the body works to maintain by regulating your appetite and metabolism through your hormones, genes, and brain. It has little to do with the quantity of calories you consume.

It works like this: your brain, digestive system, and hormones communicate with each other through several feedback loops to synchronize the activities that automatically maintain body fat and blood sugar at a specific level, otherwise known as your setpoint.

A good way to understand the biological feedback system that establishes your setpoint is to think of it like the thermostat in your house. Because of the thermostat, your heating or air-conditioning system responds to the weather outside and keeps your home at whatever temperature the thermostat “thinks” it should be at. Similarly, your setpoint stimulates or suppresses your appetite and raises or lowers metabolism in response to how much fat it “thinks” you should store.

Why Starvation Diets Fail

When you look at it this way, do you see how counterproductive it is to go on the latest starvation diet to try to shed some pounds? The minute you slash calories, a metabolic alarm goes off, letting your body know you’re not eating as much as you normally do. What happens then? You become ravenously hungry because the levels of the hunger hormone ghrelin are increased, courtesy of the hypothalamus in the brain.

Meanwhile, your metabolism slows down to conserve calories so you don’t starve to death, and your body sends most of the calories you do consume to your fat cells. This is because, during a famine, which your body thinks you are in, excess body fat is essential for survival. To help conserve these fat stores, your body also starts burning muscle for energy, further slowing the metabolism.

Yes, you will lose weight on a starvation-type diet. But the weight loss primarily comes from water and muscle. As soon as you go off the diet, you gain it back because your metabolism is now slower than it was before you began the diet…and because your body overreacts to the starvation period and raises your setpoint weight.

The only way to lose weight long term is to lower your setpoint weight.

Setpoint Weight, Automatic Weight Loss, and the Importance of High-Quality Calories

The big problem with most weight loss diets is that they practice the calorie deficit theory of weight loss, which treats all calories the same. That is, if you reduce the number of calories consumed by a certain amount, you will lose a certain amount of weight. And it doesn’t matter where those calories come from.

According to the calorie deficit theory of weight loss, if you want to eat a nutritious diet composed primarily of non-starchy veggies, protein, and whole-food fats, that’s fine. As long as you do not exceed, say, 1,500 calories per day. On the other hand, if you want to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the fast food restaurant down the street, that’s fine, too. As long as you stay within your limit of 1,500 calories per day.

Automatic Weight Loss: Why a Calorie is Not the Same as Every Other Calorie

Science shows, however, that this is just not true. Calories vary greatly in their effect on the body depending on the foods from which they come. Some foods, such as protein and non-starchy vegetables, are digested slowly, keeping blood glucose levels steady. This prevents weight gain (or promotes weight loss.) In other words, these foods support a low setpoint weight.

Other foods, such as grains and sugar, are quickly converted into glucose and absorbed into the bloodstream. This causes a spike in blood sugar levels, triggering a release of insulin that is needed to shuttle the excess glucose to your cells. Insulin, though, is also a fat-storage hormone. Eating a regular diet of sugar, starchy carbs, and processed foods demand the almost constant presence of insulin in your bloodstream. Insulin will shuttle most of the glucose to your fat cells.

This means that your non-fat cells are not getting fed. That’s bad news. Before long, your non-fat cells signal the brain that they’re starving. Even though you may be eating plenty of food, your brain doesn’t know that. It thinks you need more food, so it elevates your setpoint weight.

Do you see how the difference in the quality of the calories you consume affects your body and your weight?

Autopilot Weight Loss? Your Setpoint Will Handle It

While it is true that a calorie deficit is necessary for weight loss, it is not your job to create that deficit. Rather, your body is perfectly capable of burning off a tremendous amount of excess calories without you even breaking a sweat. It actually increases the calorie burn of several metabolic processes while also regulating your calorie intake automatically to keep you within range of your setpoint weight.

Once you lower your setpoint weight, your body will take care of the rest. But how do you lower your setpoint weight? You do this by eating high-quality calories.

How High-Quality Calories Trigger Automatic Weight Loss

As Women’s World points out in the article, high-quality calories are loaded with nutrients that steady blood sugar and reduce inflammation. As a result, your cravings for foods that raise blood sugar and cause inflammation to diminish. This lowers setpoint weight. No willpower or struggle or calorie counting required.

And it’s incredibly easy to do. The Women’s World article gives sample menus for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. But you don’t have to follow a particular menu. All you need to do is keep a few basic principles in mind.

4 Dietary Principles that Trigger Automatic Weight Loss

Here are a few principles that lower setpoint weight and trigger automatic weight loss.

1. Focus on eating MORE setpoint-lowering foods

Foods proven to lower setpoint weight include non-starchy vegetables, high-quality protein, and whole food fats.

When you focus on eating more setpoint lowering foods, you will automatically eat fewer foods that raise setpoint weight. If you do that, you’ll automatically follow this next principle.

2. Reduce or eliminate heavily processed foods.

Instead, focus on eating foods in their natural states as much as possible. This means choose vegetables that you could have grown yourself (fresh or frozen) without artificial flavorings, preservatives or chemicals. Choose lean meats (fresh or frozen) that contain no added preservatives or other ingredients. Bread and cereals, even whole grain ones, are not in their natural states because there is no such thing as a bread or cereal tree. These foods undergo extensive processing before they arrive at the supermarket.

3. Shop the perimeter of the supermarket

The center of the supermarket is where you’ll find all the processed foods. These foods can be awfully tempting, especially when you’re first starting out with the setpoint diet. To avoid temptation, try to stay close to the interior walls of the supermarket. This is where you’ll find meats, poultry, vegetables, fruits, and dairy. (Dairy is not a big part of the setpoint diet, but we do recommend plain nonfat Greek yogurt and cottage cheese because of their high protein content.)

4. Focus on all the delicious SANE foods you CAN Eat

Most diets you’ve tried probably told you what you can’t have. Of course, all this does is make you focus on what you can’t have. This causes you to crave those forbidden foods and, before long, you give in to those cravings. It’s time to change that. Instead of focusing on what you can’t have, focus on all the delicious SANE foods you CAN have. When you do this, you’re brain and eyes will automatically seek out all the setpoint-lowering foods at the supermarket. Foods that you barely noticed before will be front-and-center in your attention focus on the SANE foods you can have. Try it and see!

Ready for Automatic Weight Loss? Try the Setpoint Diet

There is so much information about the metabolism, setpoint, and automatic weight loss in The Setpoint Diet book that we couldn’t possibly include all of it in this article. However, we couldn’t end this article without covering one more thing — the 4 basic food groups of the setpoint diet.

Non-Starchy Vegetables

10+ servings per day

Consuming at least 10 servings of non-starchy vegetables per day is a central component of the setpoint diet. You can reach 10 servings by including a little more than 3 servings of non-starchy veggies with each meal (breakfast, lunch, and dinner.)

You don’t even have to count servings. Simply fill half your plate with non-starchy veggies at each main meal. Or, whip up nutritious setpoint-lowering green smoothies using a couple servings of green leafy veggies as a base. Put these green leafies in a high-powered blender, add a couple servings of other (preferably green) veggies, a serving of low-sugar fruit (if desired), and water or almond milk. Blend until smooth.

Great non-starchy vegetable choices include:

Asparagus
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Celery
Eggplant
Endive
Kale
Spinach

Nutrient-Dense Protein

3-5 servings per day, 30-55 grams per main meal.

Nutrient-dense or concentrated sources of protein are foods that have more calories coming from protein than from fat or carbohydrates.

Eating at least 30 grams of protein at one sitting is essential for triggering muscle protein synthesis, a condition in which the body refreshes and renews lean tissue. This rebuilds muscle, increasing metabolism.

A single serving of protein is about as large as two of your palms, whether it is in the form of lean meat, cottage cheese, or nonfat Greek yogurt. But don’t get hung up on measuring servings sizes. All you need to do is fill up a third of your plate with nutrient-dense protein. This should ensure you get 30-55 grams of protein.

Great nutrient-dense protein options include:

Chicken
Cottage Cheese
Grass-Fed Beef
Oysters
Perch
Plain Nonfat Greek Yogurt
Salmon
Tuna

Whole-Food Fats

3-6 servings per day

Contrary to popular belief, eating fat does not cause you to get fat or develop heart disease. Dietary fat is an essential nutrient. The key is to eat the whole-food versions of healthy fats, not just their oils. For instance, eating olives is better than consuming olive oil because the whole food (olives) contain fiber, water, protein, and other nutrients that help to lower setpoint weight.

Cooking with a little healthy oil is fine, though we recommend using coconut oil rather than olive oil for cooking. This is because olive oil has a low “smoke point,” meaning that it starts to burn and smoke at high temperatures. This not only gives a burnt taste to foods, but it also destroys beneficial nutrients.

Fill the remainder of your plate with whole-food fats. Some great whole-fat food options include:

Almonds
Avocado
Chia Seeds
Cocoa/Cacao
Coconut
Whole Eggs
Flax Seeds
Olives

Low-Fructose Fruits

0-3 servings per day

The setpoint diet includes low-fructose fruits for those who prefer fruit occasionally. However, you do not have to eat any fruit — ever. Anything fruit can do, non-starchy veggies can do with a lot less sugar!

Some low-fructose fruit options include:

Blueberries
Cherries
Goji Berries
Grapefruit
Lemons
Oranges
Peaches
Strawberries

The Setpoint Diet: Your Key to Automatic Weight Loss

Are you ready to experience automatic weight loss like the women featured in the Women’s World article? Click here to order The Setpoint Diet book today!

February 11, 2019/0 Comments/by SANE

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Yo-Yo Dieting Got You Down? Pick UP the Setpoint Diet Book and Do the 21-Day Challenge!

If you are an expert yo-yo dieter but don’t want to be — and who does?!!!– we’ve got GREAT news for you! The Setpoint Diet book can help you end yo-yo dieting once and for all. And that’s not all. With the help of the Setpoint Diet book, you will experience steady, effortless weight loss, eventually achieving your ideal weight without hunger. How amazing is that?

Does the term “steady weight loss” scare you? Does it make you think of months and months of torture — giving up your favorite foods — as you s-l-o-w-l-y lose those extra pounds? Please don’t be scared. As you’ll learn by reading The Setpoint Diet book, you will never feel deprived on this diet. You’ll be so full of SANE foods that you won’t have any room for inSANE ones. Plus, there is a SANE substitution for most inSANE foods. Feel better now?

And there’s something else. You now have a choice whether you want to lose weight slowly or more quickly on The Setpoint Diet plan. If you want to lose weight slowly and steadily, simply stick to the SANE eating plan as outlined in The Setpoint Diet book. But if you want to speed up the weight loss, dive right into the 21-Day Challenge.

The 21-Day Challenge contains the most potent combination of SANE nutrition, nutraceuticals, activity, lifestyle habits, and other setpoint-lowering methods ever created. The 21-Day Challenge is designed to lower your setpoint weight by at least 10 pounds every 21-day cycle — permanently.

The Setpoint Diet Book: The Best Way to End Yo-Yo Dieting

Yo-yo dieting, also called weight cycling, is a situation wherein you lose weight and regain it over and over again. It is a common problem. Statistics show that approximately 97% of dieters regain every pound of the weight they lost — and then some — within three years. But we’re not telling you something you probably don’t already know.

If you’re like most people who struggle with their weight, you’ve been on a half dozen or more diets in the past several years. Oh, you lost weight on each diet, sometimes a lot of weight. But you were hungry, irritable, and just plain miserable the entire time you were on the diet. Though you reduce your calorie intake by 500 calories per day — which should have guaranteed you a loss of 1 pound per week, according to the calorie-deficit theory of weight loss — you were lucky to lose a half a pound. Some weeks, you didn’t lose anything or worse….you even gained a couple of pounds.

After a few months of such misery and disappointment, you went off the diet and started eating “normal” meals again. And what happened? That’s right. You started gaining the weight back fairly quickly. In just a few months, you had gained all the weight back plus an additional few pounds. You were worse off than before you started the diet. In fact, it would have been better if you had never gone on that starvation diet in the first place. That’s because starvation dieting, itself, leads to yo-yo dieting.

The Setpoint Diet is the best way to end yo-yo dieting because it addresses the underlying cause of weight gain — which has nothing to do with the quantity of calories you consume! Rather, it has everything to do with your setpoint weight.

Yo Yo Dieting: Setpoint Weight, Starvation Dieting, and The Setpoint Diet Book

Setpoint weight is that level of stored fat the body works to maintain by regulating your appetite and metabolism through your hormones, genes, and brain — regardless of the quantity of calories you take in or exercise off.

You see, your body is a finely tuned biological machine that regulates your weight the same way it regulates your blood glucose levels, your body temperature, your blood pressure, and so much more. This is how it regulates your weight: your brain, digestive system, and hormones talk to each other through a variety of feedback loops to synchronize the activities that automatically maintain body fat at a specific level (setpoint weight).

It works similarly to the thermostat in your home. For instance, the thermostat “tells” your heating or air conditioning system not only what the temperature inside your home is, but also what it should be. It instructs the HVAC system to make the temperature whatever it “thinks” it should be at. Similarly, your setpoint stimulates or suppresses your appetite and raises or lowers your metabolism in response to how much fat it “thinks” you should store.

Just as the HVAC’s job is to obey, without question, the instructions of the thermostat, your body obeys the instructions of your setpoint. This is why starvation dieting will never bring permanent weight-loss results and why it leads to yo-yo dieting.

As you’ll learn in The Setpoint Diet book, you will lose weight by starvation dieting. But the body fights back. When you start to cut calories, your body’s metabolic alarm goes off, signaling your body that you are not consuming as many calories as usual. In response, your body demands more food and starts burning fewer calories. Appetite goes up, calorie burn goes down. It does everything it can to keep you near your setpoint weight.

Lowering the Setpoint Weight: Key to Permanent Weight Loss

Every frustrated dieter knows, deep down, that cutting calories (starvation dieting) doesn’t work for long-term weight loss. They know it causes them to be heavier in the long run. Yet, they keep trying various starvation-type diets hoping that this time, it will finally work.

Why?

There are many reasons. They might feel they weren’t doing it correctly, or that this diet wasn’t the right one for them. Or they just didn’t have enough willpower, or they didn’t stick with it long enough.

But the biggest reason people keep trying various starvation diets without ultimate success is that they don’t have any other method to replace it with. They’ve been taught that quantity of calories is the most important factor in weight maintenance and weight loss and that they must starve their bodies to force it to burn fat.

Almost every traditional diet is based on this calorie-deficit theory of weight loss, and that’s precisely the problem. You see, the calorie-deficit theory of weight loss is incorrect in the way it is being taught and practiced.

Quantity Vs. Quality of Calories

The calorie-deficit theory of weight loss treats all calories the same. It “says” it doesn’t matter what you eat as long as you do not consume more than a certain number of calories per day or week. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Research shows that calories vary greatly in their effects on the body depending upon the sources from which they come. The body quickly digests refined carbs, for instance, and turns them into glucose. This glucose is then rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream, causing a rapid rise in blood glucose levels. The pancreas releases the hormone insulin to take the glucose into your cells.

Consuming a large amount of refined carbs at once — such as a big plate of pasta and two slices of garlic bread — causes a large amount of glucose to enter the bloodstream. Insulin must clear it from your bloodstream before it reaches toxic levels, so it sends most of this glucose straight to your fat cells.

Compare this to what happens when you consume a plate of non-starchy vegetables and a piece of steak. Though vegetables are also carbs, they contain a magic ingredient — fiber. This fiber slows digestion and glucose absorption. Just a little glucose at a time is secreted into the bloodstream, which insulin can easily take to the non-fat cells of the body.

Now let’s discuss this high-protein steak. It takes more calories for your body to digest protein than it does to digest fat or carbohydrate. Plus, protein is almost impossible for your body to store as fat.

So, think about it for a minute. Here’s a person eating a large plate of pasta with two slices of garlic bread. Another person is eating the non-starchy vegetables and steak. Which of the two people will likely gain more weight than the other one? The veggie/steak eater, of course.

Quality of Calories and Setpoint Weight

Not surprisingly, one of the main causes of an elevated setpoint weight is consuming poor-quality calories, such as highly processed foods, starchy carbs, and sugars. Research shows overconsumption of poor-quality calorie calories causes hormonal clogs, neurological inflammation, and gut dysbiosis, which leads to an elevated setpoint weight.

Hormonal Clog

When you have a hormonal clog, your brain no longer receives correct signals from your hormones that normally allow you to burn body fat automatically. You see, the hypothalamus in your brain is responsible for regulating the metabolism. To do this job, it relies on signals from hormones, primarily leptin and insulin, to give it regular status updates on your fat levels.

A poor quality diet jams the signals leptin and insulin try to send the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus can no longer automatically balance calories in with calories out. Instead of working to burn excess fat, the hypothalamus now works to hold onto this fat.

Neurological Inflammation

Neurological inflammation is a contributing factor to a hormonal clog. If the hypothalamus becomes inflamed, it cannot receive correct signals from your hormones. The result is an elevated setpoint weight and weight gain.

Inflammation, it must be stated, is not always a bad thing. It is a necessary function of the immune system. It only becomes dangerous if it continues too long, a condition called “chronic inflammation.” Research shows chronic inflammation to be the underlying cause of many serious health problems.

But inflammation — chronic or otherwise — is not supposed to occur in the brain. The blood-brain barrier is supposed to keep bacteria, toxins, and other foreign invaders out of its fragile environment. When the blood-brain barrier is compromised, however, it becomes “leaky,” allowing these foreign invaders passage into the brain’s environment, causing inflammation.

Gut Dysbiosis

Though your body is composed of an estimated 100 trillion cells, only about 10% of them are human. And most of them live in your digestive system.

The bacteria in the gut have a tremendous effect on your setpoint weight. These gut bacteria extract calories from the foods you eat, store calories for later use as body fat, and much more. They can also influence the development of neurological inflammation.

Good bacteria that line your digestive tracts serve as a barrier against bad bacteria, keeping the bad bacteria from entering your bloodstream and causing inflammation throughout the body. If the balance between good bacteria and bad bacteria shifts, a condition called gut dysbiosis, the bad bacteria can damage your stomach lining and elevate your setpoint weight.

The Setpoint Diet Book: Eating High-Quality Calories to Lower Setpoint Weight

The Setpoint Diet Book tells you which foods are setpoint-lowering (high quality), and which ones are setpoint elevating (low quality). Losing weight with The Setpoint Diet book is as easy as eating MORE high-quality foods. By eating more of these SANE foods, you will automatically avoid inSANE ones! Plus, you’ll be totally satisfied.

Compare The Setpoint Diet book to other diets you’ve tried. Think about those other diets and how you were constantly hungry, tired, and weak. Well…you won’t experience this on the Setpoint Diet. Are you ready to get started? Click here to order The Setpoint Diet book today.

Don’t Forget to Try the 21-Day Challenge in The Setpoint Diet Book

When you receive The Setpoint Diet book and finish reading it, give the 21-day challenge a try. This challenge is not only the fastest and safest way to lower your setpoint weight by at least 10 pounds in three weeks, but it can also help make the SANE eating and lifestyle upgrades in The Setpoint Diet book habitual.

The 21-Day Challenge combines optimal foods with nutraceuticals, smarter exercise, and other techniques scientifically proven to lower your setpoint weight. Just think of the 21-Day Challenge is a “crash course” in SANE eating, one that will end yo-yo dieting for good!

Next Step: End Yo-Yo Dieting and Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle with the Help of Setpoint Diet Book and the SANE

Ready to finally break free from the yo-yo dieting rollercoaster by balancing your hormones and lowering your body’s setpoint weight?

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December 3, 2018/0 Comments/by SANE

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The Setpoint Diet Book: The Amazingly Simple Way to Lose Weight

In the pages of Jonathan Bailor’s latest bestseller The Setpoint Diet book, you’ll find a scientifically proven, simple way to lose weight permanently. Without hunger. Without deprivation or misery or guilt or shame. The Setpoint Diet book doesn’t make you count calories or points. It doesn’t give you endless menus you must follow exactly to reap weight-loss results. Nor does it include complicated rules to remember.

Does this sound like any diet you’ve tried in the past? No? Well, that’s because The Setpoint Diet book is wonderfully different from any other traditional diet. We’ll explain why in a moment. Suffice to say, for now, if you let the principles contained in The Setpoint Diet book sink in, and you start eating SANE foods and practicing SANE lifestyle upgrades, you’ll experience the joy of effortless weight loss.

Stay with it, and you will even experience, perhaps for the first time in your life, what it is like to live in the body of a naturally thin person.

The Setpoint Diet Book and YOU

We know. You’re probably shaking your head right now, wondering when we’re going to reveal the big catch. You’re probably thinking these claims about The Setpoint Diet book, and its effect on your weight, are “too good to be true.” We totally understand your skepticism.

If you struggle with your weight, you’ve surely been let down (to say the least!!!) by other diets. Take a minute right now and think about how many diets you have tried over the years. How many total diets have you tried, and how many of them failed you? All of them? How much weight have you lost on those diets, only to gain every last pound back — every time?!!!

You’re not alone.

Statistics show more than 45 million American adults go on a diet each year and that the average dieter makes 4-5 weight-loss attempts per year. Obviously, if “traditional” starvation-type diets worked, millions of people wouldn’t be dieting. There also wouldn’t be a worldwide obesity epidemic, and the weight-loss industry in the U.S. wouldn’t be raking in upwards of $108 million per year.

It has been clear for a long time that starvation dieting doesn’t work. Experienced dieters know starvation dieting doesn’t work for long-term weight loss. Scientists have also known for a long time that starvation dieting doesn’t work and is even counterproductive to long-term weight-loss success. But somehow, this information never made it into the “mainstream” weight-loss community.

Until now.

The Setpoint Diet Book is the result of more than 15 years of research — scientific, clinical, peer-reviewed research studies — showing how the metabolism really works. This research reveals that the quantity of calories consumed — the main focus of most traditional diets — is NOT the most important factor in weight gain, weight loss, or weight maintenance.

The Hidden Force Affecting Your Weight

You see, there’s an invisible force inside you that is working to cling to extra pounds, and it has nothing to do with calories, points, mail-order meals or any of the traditional health and diet quackery you’ve been taught. The fact that you’ve been given incorrect information is precisely why these diets have failed you over and over and over for most of your life.

What’s really holding you back—and what can permanently set you free—can be summed up in a word: setpoint. And it’s something you can control. When you control it, you stay naturally slim.

So what is a setpoint?

The Connection Between Setpoint, Weight Gain, and Obesity

The human body is an extremely complex biological machine. Your brain, your digestive system, and your hormones all work together through a highly coordinated system to help stabilize your body weight and blood sugar—the same way they automatically stabilize your body temperature and blood pressure.

How do they do this? Well…

Your brain, digestive system, and hormones talk to one another through various feedback loops to synchronize the activities that automatically maintain body fat at a specific level. This is your setpoint weight.

The biological feedback system that establishes your setpoint is similar to the thermostat in your house. Thanks to the thermostat, your heating or air-conditioning system respond to the weather outside and keep your home at whatever temperature the thermostat “thinks” it should be at. Similarly, your setpoint stimulates or suppresses your appetite and raises or lowers your metabolism in response to how much fat it “thinks” you should store.

How the Body Handles Starvation

So, the minute you go on a starvation diet, your body goes on emergency alert. Hormones signal your brain that you’re not eating enough to maintain the bodily functions needed to keep you alive. The hypothalamus in your brain responds by increasing levels of the hunger hormone ghrelin to get you to eat more food.

If you manage to ignore the ravenous hunger that ensues, your hypothalamus releases or increases levels of hormones that make you weak, cold, shaky, irritable. It also lowers your metabolism and sends most of the calories you consume directly to your fat stores. Additionally, when threatened with starvation, the body retains its fat stores as much as possible. Instead of burning fat for energy, it burns muscle. A loss of muscle mass further slows the metabolism.

When you finally go off the diet — because who can take such hunger and misery for a long period of time? — you’ll likely gain all the weight back plus several more pounds. This is because the body overreacts to being starved. You see, the diet itself slows your metabolism and elevates your setpoint weight.

So, starvation dieting leads to a heavier you in the long run! Starvation dieting works only for short-term weight loss. The only way to lose weight long term is to lower your setpoint weight. Once you learn how to lower your setpoint weight, as you’ll learn in The Setpoint Diet book, you lose weight safely and effortlessly. You’ll eat until you’re full — delicious, real foods — and you’ll feel wonderful.

Factors that Elevate Setpoint Weight

Everything you do either raises or lowers your setpoint weight. But the three main factors that elevate your setpoint weight are poor-quality diet, stress, and sleep deprivation.

1. Poor-Quality Diet

The traditional dieting industry is based on the calorie-deficit theory of weight loss. That is, if you create a calorie deficit in your body, you’ll lose weight. You can create this deficit either by burning calories off through exercise or by consuming fewer calories than your body needs. And, this theory goes, it doesn’t matter what types of foods you consume as long as you maintain a calorie deficit.

Sadly, this is not the case. Research shows calories vary widely in their effect on the body. The effect calories have on your body depends upon the food from which they come. In other words, it is the quality — not the quantity — of calories that affects your health and your weight.

Research shows that overconsumption of poor-quality foods — such as highly processed foods, starchy carbs, and sugar — elevates setpoint weight. That’s because these foods cause hormonal clogs, preventing your hormones from sending correct signals to your hypothalamus. (The hypothalamus regulates your metabolism.) Poor-quality foods also cause neurological inflammation and gut dysbiosis, both of which prevent the body from metabolizing calories correctly.

The Setpoint-Lowering Effects of High-Quality Calories

If you have been struggling with your weight, if nothing you have tried has ever worked to keep the weight off long term, you’re in for a treat. The Setpoint Diet book takes you by the hand and shows you how you can achieve effortless and permanent weight loss. It reveals the foods scientifically proven to lower your setpoint weight. Regularly consuming these SANE foods will reverse the effects of years or decades of consuming inSANE foods.

Lowering your setpoint weight is as simple as upgrading your diet. Of course, there are other SANE lifestyle upgrades that are important in lowering your setpoint, too, but diet is one of the most important factors.

And don’t let the phrase “upgrading your diet” scare you. As the Setpoint Diet book reveals, you’ll eat real, easily accessible foods. There is also a SANE substitution for every inSANE food (except for those highly processed “food-like” products.) You’ll love the way SANE foods taste, and you’ll love how they make you feel. You’ll have more energy, and you’ll be able to sleep better at night. How amazing is that?!!!

2. Chronic Stress

The second factor that elevates setpoint weight is chronic stress. There are many physiological reasons why chronic stress elevates setpoint weight. When you’re stressed, your body releases extra glucose to give you the energy to fight or flee the threat. Your adrenal gland release the stress hormone cortisol which, among other things, triggers a release of insulin to usher this glucose into your cells.

So as you can see, stress causes elevated levels of glucose, cortisol, and insulin, all of which can cause weight gain. Our caveman ancestors didn’t have to worry about weight gain because they dealt only with the short-term stresses of an actual life-or-death threat. For instance, they burnt off their excess glucose levels during their fight with the bear. After the threat had passed, the relaxation response set in, returning their cortisol and insulin levels to normal. They didn’t experience the “fight-or-flight” response unless their lives were actually threatened.

That’s not how modern men and women handle stress. Most of us are chronically stressed, treating every problem as a life-or-death situation. The body reacts in kind. But since we’re always stressed, the relaxation response never occurs. Instead, our glucose, cortisol, and insulin levels become chronically elevated. This not only elevates setpoint weight and leads to weight gain, but it also increases the risk for type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases.

The solution?

Try to de-stress every day. Meditate. Take a leisurely walk around the block. Read a good book. Practice deep-breathing exercises. Go hiking with friends. Anything you love doing will de-stress you.

3. Sleep Deprivation

People in modern society are not only chronically stressed, but they are also sleep deprived. According to a 2013 Gallup poll, 40% of Americans get less than seven hours of sleep per night. (In this poll, 26% reported getting 6 hours of sleep per night, and 14% said they got 5 hours or less per night.)

The problem is that many studies indicate that sleep deprivation leads to weight gain. These studies suggest sleep deprivation dysregulates hormones, causing excessive hunger and craving for starchy carbs. Sleep deprivation has also been shown to increase levels of cortisol, leading to an accumulation of belly fat.

The solution?

Make high-quality sleep a priority. Try to get at least 8 hours of sleep every night. One way to get more sleep every night is to maintain a regular sleep schedule. Go to bed at the same time every night, and awaken at the same time every morning — even on weekends.

The Setpoint Diet Book: Are You Ready for the 21-Day Challenge?

The Setpoint Diet book contains all the information you need to lower your setpoint weight. You can accomplish this goal as slowly or as quickly as you’d like. If you want to take it slowly, simply follow the general SANE dietary and SANE lifestyle guidelines. But if you want to see quick results, The Setpoint Diet book includes a plan to help you do just that.

The 21-Day Challenge portion of The Setpoint Diet book provides all the tools and strategies you need to lower your setpoint weight as quickly, easily, and safely as possible. The 21-Day Challenge helps you lose 10 or more pounds in just three weeks. And unlike other diets you’ve tried, you will not be hungry, weak, or irritable. You will not feel deprived. And because the 21-Day Challenge helps you lower your setpoint weight, the results will be permanent.

After you complete the 21-Day Challenge, you can either switch to the regular Setpoint Diet, or you can do another cycle of the 21-Day Challenge. It is totally up to you.

The Setpoint Diet book is on sale NOW. So, what are you waiting for? Click here to order this amazing book. You don’t have anything to lose…except your excess weight!

Next Step: Learn the Secrets of Losing Weight and Living a Healthy Life with Setpoint Diet Book and the SANE

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December 1, 2018/0 Comments/by SANE

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The Setpoint Diet Book: How to Use the 21-Day Challenge to Lose Weight Permanently

If losing weight — and keeping it off — has been a constant battle for you, we’ve got good news. The Setpoint Diet book has just been published to rave reviews. Everyone is talking about the phenomenally successful 21-Day Challenge included in The Setpoint Diet book. And once you try this diet, you’ll be talking about it, too. You see, The Setpoint Diet book and the 21-Day Challenge will help you finally win the battle with your weight.

What’s so Special about The Setpoint Diet Book and the 21-Day Challenge?

The Setpoint Diet book, written by New York Times bestselling author and founder of SANE Solution, Jonathan Bailor, is NOT a typical diet book. It does not repeat old beliefs or myths about dieting and weight loss. Rather, the information you’ll find in The Setpoint Diet book is based on more than 15 years of verifiable research. This information comes from hundreds of peer-reviewed clinical research studies and medical journals.

In writing The Setpoint Diet book, Jonathan left nothing to chance. Every fact is backed up by solid metabolic science. This research is so solid that the plan included in The Setpoint Diet book is the only plan endorsed by top doctors at the Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins, the Cleveland Clinic, the Mayo Clinic, and UCLA.

The Setpoint Diet book eating plan has not only been proven clinically to unclog hormones, brain, and digestion, but more than 100,000 people can attest to its success in lowering their setpoint weight and reversing many health issues. These individuals enjoyed effortless and now permanent weight loss — thanks to the dietary and lifestyle upgrades you’ll discover in The Setpoint Diet book.

You can achieve the permanent weight loss results you desire just by following the dietary and lifestyle guidelines detailed in The Setpoint Diet book. However, the 21-Day Challenge portion of the book is useful and valuable because it helps you become quickly accustomed to living SANEly. The 21-Day Challenge protocol helps lower your setpoint weight as quickly, safely, and easily as possible. And guess what? You’ll drop those pounds without calorie counting, deprivation, or hunger.

We’ll review some of the main principles of the 21-Day Challenge later. But first, let’s discuss some of the reasons your previous dieting efforts did not work.

Lose Weight Permanently? Why Starvation Dieting Doesn’t Work

If you’ve struggled with your weight, you undoubtedly have some experience with starvation dieting. This doesn’t mean you went without food for a period of time. Rather, starvation dieting simply means that you deprive your body of an adequate number of calories. Calories are units of energy. Your organs, tissues — and every cell of your body — needs a certain minimum amount of energy (calories) to function properly.

Any diet requiring you to consciously cut calories while disregarding calorie quality is a starvation-type diet. These diets incorporate the calorie-deficit theory of weight loss, a theory that is incorrect, at least in the way it is being practiced.

It does appear to work, however. As you have probably discovered, you will lose weight on a starvation diet. But your body fights back against what it sees as literal starvation. It drives your hunger up and your metabolism down. It inhibits fat burning and sends most of the calories you consume to your fat cells. (That’s because having enough body fat is essential to your survival.)

When you finally go off the diet and start eating normally again, you gain the weight back due to the lowered metabolism — and lowered setpoint weight — caused by the starvation diet. The only way to keep the weight off after a starvation diet is to continue eating a similarly low amount of calories. But even then, you’d have to eat a smaller and smaller number of calories with each subsequent year to maintain that weight loss. This is completely unsustainable.

The only way to lose weight permanently is to lower your setpoint weight. Once you lower your setpoint weight, your body will fight to keep you from gaining weight in the same way as it now fights to keep you from losing weight.

Setpoint Weight Always Wins

You’ve been told your entire life that calories are the most important thing to weight loss and weight maintenance. You’ve been told that eating less and exercising more is the key to winning your weight loss battles. But that advice has worked for very few people — and that’s because calories are not the most important thing to weight loss/maintenance. Setpoint weight is the main factor in being able to lose weight long term.

So What Is Setpoint Weight and How is it Connected to Obesity?

The human body is a beautifully complex biological machine. Your brain, your digestive system, and your hormones all work together through a highly coordinated system to help stabilize your body weight —the same way they automatically stabilize your body temperature and blood pressure.

They talk to one another through various feedback loops to synchronize the activities that automatically maintain body fat at a specific level, otherwise known as your setpoint weight.

Think of the biological feedback system that establishes your setpoint like the thermostat in your house. Thanks to the thermostat, your heating or air-conditioning system respond to the weather outside and keep your home at whatever temperature the thermostat “thinks” it should be at. Similarly, your setpoint stimulates or suppresses your appetite and raises or lowers metabolism in response to how much fat it “thinks” you should store.

This is why starvation dieting works against you. Your body fights against anything that takes you too far away from your setpoint weight. Working with your setpoint weight instead of against it — as you’ll learn in The Setpoint Diet book — is an empowering way of eating and living that will unlock the naturally slim and healthy person inside you. Eventually, you will burn calories like a naturally thin person.

Factors that Determine Setpoint Weight

There are three factors that determine setpoint weight: brain, gut, and hormones.

Brain

The hypothalamus in the brain regulates your metabolism, balancing calories in with calories out so that you never become too fat or too thin. The hormones leptin and insulin regulate the hypothalamus. (These hormones regulate appetite and eating.) Both of these hormones send signals to the hypothalamus regarding the status of your fat stores. A healthy brain receives these signals correctly so that when calorie intake increases your body simply burns more calories.

However, if the hypothalamus becomes inflamed (neurological inflammation) it cannot receive these signals from the hormones. Instead of working to keep you naturally slim, your hypothalamus and hormones instead work to hold on to extra fat, no matter how hard you try to lose the weight.

Digestive System

The human body is composed of an estimated 100 trillion cells, only 10% of which are human. The rest of these cells, some 90%, are bacterial — most of which live in your digestive system. Once thought to just affect digestion, gut bacteria has been found to affect the immune system, and thus may play a role in the development of every disease.

As concerns weight issues, bacteria residing in your gut and digestive tract exert a major influence on your setpoint weight. Collectively called “gut microbiota,” these bacteria are responsible for a variety of tasks. For instance, they help extract calories from the foods you eat. They also store calories for later use as body fat. Some of these bacteria even have an impact on neurological inflammation and whether or not you become obese.

Research shows that overweight individuals have a different mix of gut bacteria than “normal” weight individuals, too. For instance, bacteria from the Firmicutes family produce a higher setpoint while bacteria from the Bacteroidetes family produce a lower setpoint. What does this mean? In simple terms, data suggests people who are overweight or obese have a significantly higher level of Firmicutes and lower level of Bacteroidetes compared to people of “normal” weight.

In essence, then, the tendency toward a higher setpoint weight — and obesity — could well begin with your gut bacteria. Science suggests that an imbalance of “good” and “bad” gut bacteria, a condition called gut dysbiosis, could well be the cause of weight gain and obesity.

Hormones

Released by the endocrine glands, hormones are chemical messengers that travel through the bloodstream to tissues and organs. They control most of the body’s major system, including the metabolism.

If you’ve had trouble losing weight and keeping it off, a “hormonal clog” could be to blame. When you have a hormonal clog, your brain can no longer receive correct signals from your hormones that would otherwise enable you to burn body fat automatically. This elevates your setpoint weight — and keeps it elevated.

An easy way to understand how this hormonal clog elevates your setpoint weight is to think about your body as functioning like a sink. When a sink is working correctly, the more water you pour in, the more water drains out. This properly working sink is balancing the water level at a low level. Think of a working sink, then, as having a low setpoint.

A hormonally healthy body works similarly, doing everything it can to automatically prevent excess body fat from accumulating. A healthy body, like a “healthy” sink, responds to more in with more out, and to less in with less out.

What Causes a Clog?

The only reason water builds up in sinks and fat builds up in bodies is that they have become clogged by having the wrong quality of things put into them. Once you have a clog, though, any amount of water IN will cause the water level to rise and stay high. Now you have a sink with an elevated setpoint.

You can think of your body in the same way. When you put poor quality food into it, your body becomes hormonally clogged, causing it to automatically balance you out at an elevated level of body fat. The easiest, most efficient way to deal with this problem is not to cut calories but to remove the hormonal clog. Once you remove the clog, your body will then balance you out at a lower setpoint weight.

How the Setpoint Diet Book Helps You Lower Your Setpoint Weight

The main causes of neurological inflammation, gut dysbiosis, and hormonal dysregulation — that lead to an elevated setpoint weight — are poor-quality diet, stress, and sleep deprivation. The Setpoint Diet book address all of these causes, providing scientifically proven strategies that will improve or eliminate these issues.

Here are some important strategies you can use today to lower your setpoint weight. The Setpoint Diet book details these strategies, and many more!

Reduce consumption of heavily processed foods, starchy carbs, and sugars.
Eat more whole foods.
Increase consumption of non-starchy vegetables.
Concentrate on these 3 SANE food groups: non-starchy vegetables, nutrient dense proteins, and whole-food fats.
Drink plenty of water.
Get 7-8 hours of uninterrupted sleep per night.
De-stress regularly. (This can include leisurely walking, meditating, practicing yoga, and/or taking up a fun hobby.)

The Setpoint Diet Book and the 21-Day Challenge

You’ll be perfectly fine if you decide just to implement all the strategies contained in the Setpoint Diet book. If you do so, you can expect to steadily lower your setpoint weight. But if you want to see quicker results — and develop the SANE lifestyle more quickly — you’ll want to try the 21-Day Challenge.

This therapeutic, setpoint-lowering plan will transform your life. It will show you how easy it is to incorporate SANE foods and SANE living into your lifestyle. The 21-Day Challenge gives you all the tools you need to lower your setpoint weight in the quickest, easiest, and safest way possible.

During the 21-Day Challenge, you will never feel hungry. You will never feel deprived. You will experience the freedom of eating real, delicious foods without worrying about calorie content. You’ll have more energy than you’ve ever had before. Your mind will be clearer. You will feel better than you’ll ever feel.

And…you will likely lose 10 pounds or more in just 21 days. Without starvation. Ready to get started? Simply click here to order The Setpoint Diet.

Next Step: Lose Weight Permanently and Enjoy SANEity

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November 30, 2018/0 Comments/by SANE