Ladies: That size 3 body is still inside you, and you can get it back again.

Guys: Get down to your old 34-inch waist again, and have trim abs like you used to.

Getting started...

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that if you don't have the body you want, then whatever you are doing isn't working for you. Even if you are looking for the right strategies, you almost have to be a scientist to wade through mountains of information on diets, exercise, supplements, machines, etc., to find out what works based on real science. That's where I come in. I know what the scientific literature says about the causes of excess fat and what works to get rid of it and keep it from ever coming back. You will be amazed at how simple this can be.

First a few surprises...

Overweight masks the true problem, which is: OVERFAT. You do not have too much bone, muscle, water, cartilage, or any other component of your body. You simply have too much fat. (Maybe that's no surprise!) Look at it this way: if you weigh 250 pounds and have 38% body fat, on the moon you would weigh 42 pounds and STILL have 38% body fat.

Overfat does not happen from a lack of willpower. It is the result of a hormone imbalance. The hormone is not testosterone or estrogen, although your levels of these sex hormones can certainly influence and be influenced by excess body fat.

Long-lasting and healthy fat loss occurs only when this imbalance is corrected. Doing what it takes to control the main hormones that attract fat will set you on the right course for a slimmer body. You can get this started immediately.

Low-calorie dieting can trigger fat GAIN. You must eat more to burn fat. When you eat and what you eat are more important than how much you eat. Overeating is, of course, not the answer. Many so-called "health foods" are actually cleverly disguised junk foods that can actually stimulate you to gain more belly fat ... you've got to be able to tell what's good and what's bad.

Strenuous exercise can make you fatter. Just the opposite of what you thought. Optimizing fat burning exercise depends on only three keys, and you have to pay attention to all of them to get the results that you want. Ab exercises such as crunches, sit-ups, and most ab machines are actually the LEAST effective method of getting flat, six-pack abs.

Eat fat to burn fat. The right fats can be your friend. In fact, the right dietary fats are essential to every aspect of good health. You absolutely must have these fats or your body will degenerate into an unhealthy, painful, blob of goo.

Now here is the real kicker that your doctor probably doesn't know about fat...

Abdominal fat, that stuff around your belly (and often on your thighs and upper arms), acts as a separate organ that controls its own fate by the action of a fat-regulating hormone called leptin.

This is the single most important scientific breakthrough about fat since the beginning of our current obesity epidemic. Leptin has come a long way since its discovery in 1994 by Dr. Jeffrey M. Friedman and colleagues at the Rockefeller University. Some scientists now believe that leptin is the most powerful hormone in our body.

How to power up your fat-burning hormone

Leptin production and action respond to several factors, including age, eating pattern (meaning when you eat, how much eat, and what you eat), fitness level, stress level and quality of sleep, and total inflammation load. What this means is that optimal leptin function happens by addressing these all of these factors. There is no single Silver Bullet that does everything. Indeed, a comprehensive approach to fat burning supplements alone entails four different herbal formulas plus a mineral formula, as follows:

• Boosting metabolism to keep burning calories faster
  
  
• Controlling appetite and spikes in blood sugar and insulin levels
  
  
• Eating the right fats in the right amount on a daily basis
  
  
• Reducing stress and getting good, plentiful sleep
  
  
• Supercharge your body's main energy furnace by reversing a key mineral deficiency

In addition, Doctors Nutrition Center also offers all four of the herbal fat burning formulas as a package discount in the Fat Burning Value Pack.

The right exercise and eating plans are also crucial. Articles on what to do for fat burning exercising and fat burning eating will be coming soon.