05-01-2012, 11:26 PM
Hi ssag124,
The herbs affect the hormones after a few hours, but the hormones need to be high for weeks or months before breasts grow. Increasing weight can happen fast. Once your body has a calorie excess, it has to put them somewhere. The same can happen with weight loss. In July, my waist slimmed within the first month of taking fenugreek, but I was losing weight then.
You really need to be careful. Pumping iron on carbs will build a spare tyre around your waist. Insulin from the carbs and cortisol from the weight work amplify each other in an upward spiral, called metabolic syndrome. The weight you gain will be inside the abdomen, where it's a risk factor for both cardiovascular disease and diabetes. And it's the hardest spot to get rid of it later.
So try fats instead of carbs. Ignore the advice of the gym rats. Especially omega 3s are good at preventing fat accumulation inside the abdomen. For NBE, flax is better than fish. But for the quantities you need, get cold pressed flax seed oil without lignans, otherwise your lignans dose will be too high for NBE, and you will stall.
Long, strenuous workouts increase cortisol. Longer than 20 minutes is long. Heavier than walking is strenuous. It takes 3 weeks of cocktails under a palm tree to get cortisol down again. You don't have to believe me, but I lived at the gym for 25 years, and the spare tyre got bigger and bigger. Now, with fenugreek and 20 minute walks, it's slimming. Even the love handles are going away.
So find a track with stairs, slopes, and dunes. Walk for 20 minutes, no more than 10 minutes jogging. Stop. Stretch. At least 10 minutes. Do some push ups against a tree, or squats or lunges. Walk again, and so on. Mix it into your day. Take the bus, and leave it a stop early if you have the time. Use the stairs. Walk for grocery shopping. Get a bike for a distance that's longer than 20 minutes. Free parking at 20 minutes from downtown, etc.
The herbs affect the hormones after a few hours, but the hormones need to be high for weeks or months before breasts grow. Increasing weight can happen fast. Once your body has a calorie excess, it has to put them somewhere. The same can happen with weight loss. In July, my waist slimmed within the first month of taking fenugreek, but I was losing weight then.
You really need to be careful. Pumping iron on carbs will build a spare tyre around your waist. Insulin from the carbs and cortisol from the weight work amplify each other in an upward spiral, called metabolic syndrome. The weight you gain will be inside the abdomen, where it's a risk factor for both cardiovascular disease and diabetes. And it's the hardest spot to get rid of it later.
So try fats instead of carbs. Ignore the advice of the gym rats. Especially omega 3s are good at preventing fat accumulation inside the abdomen. For NBE, flax is better than fish. But for the quantities you need, get cold pressed flax seed oil without lignans, otherwise your lignans dose will be too high for NBE, and you will stall.
Long, strenuous workouts increase cortisol. Longer than 20 minutes is long. Heavier than walking is strenuous. It takes 3 weeks of cocktails under a palm tree to get cortisol down again. You don't have to believe me, but I lived at the gym for 25 years, and the spare tyre got bigger and bigger. Now, with fenugreek and 20 minute walks, it's slimming. Even the love handles are going away.
So find a track with stairs, slopes, and dunes. Walk for 20 minutes, no more than 10 minutes jogging. Stop. Stretch. At least 10 minutes. Do some push ups against a tree, or squats or lunges. Walk again, and so on. Mix it into your day. Take the bus, and leave it a stop early if you have the time. Use the stairs. Walk for grocery shopping. Get a bike for a distance that's longer than 20 minutes. Free parking at 20 minutes from downtown, etc.