Injections to increase leptin sensitivity
Dear Dr Rosedale,
I am a 30 year old female weighing 72kg and my length is 1,69m.
I have quite a bit of excess weight to loose, and of late it seems like everything I try is in vain. I live in South Africa, and there is a company named Slender Wonder that offers great weight loss results through a balanced eating plan combined with leptin injections (If you want more info, their website is www.slenderwonder.co.za).
It was actually after looking at their website and doing a google search on leptin, that I stumbled accross your website and your wonderful research on the matter. I have been following your 3 week detox plan diligently for the last three weeks, but with no real weightloss effects just yet. I can confirm though that I don't have those HUGE sugar cravings anymore.
At the moment a typical day's food for me is as follows, and I would appreciate it if you could confirm that this is actually in line with your program:
Breakfast:
2 Boiled eggs with approx 3 tablespoons of cottage cheese
Midmorning snack:
Handful of nuts (approx 10 nuts - almonds / brazils / hazels /
cashews)
Lunch
Green salad (Various lettuces, radisches, bell peppers, hand full
of nuts, olives, sundried tomoto's, sprinkling of avo oil)
Afternoon snack:
Handful of nuts (as above)
Dinner
Either a grilled chicken breast / grilled peace of fish
Grilled Zuccini OR
Cup of boiled broccoli OR
Cup of boiled cauliflower OR
Green salad as per above
I also have at least 6 glasses of water a day.
My question is, if you are already leptin intollerant as explained in various of your writings - will the leptin injections help sensitise you to the correct leptin signals, or will this infact make you even more leptin intollerant because you need more and more and more for your brain to actually receive these signals?
Your assistance and reply highly appreciated
Kindest regards
Erna Gouws
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Fiona on 12 Sep, 2011 03:58 AM
Dear Erna,
We have been traveling so apologies that our response is a little delayed. Your meal plan looks great and adding a little more oil would be good. As far as taking injections to stabilize your leptin, one can only reduce leptin with diet, or increase leptin with injections. The only people I have heard benefiting from injections are the hardcore female athletes, when they drop to a certain weight their periods can stop and thus have issues conceiving. These ladies have great success with raising their leptin this way. However, you need to reduce leptin for which there is not pill or injection for, diet is the only proven way. Taking fish oil, a good fresh one, and a selection of other supplements can help the fat burning process. It is surprising that you have not seen any results in the first few weeks as many see quite a change, also you would be having some fluid loss during this time as well. Is there anything else you are adding like fruit etc? I will check with Dr. Rosedale and see if there might be other suggestions.
Best of health,
The Rosedale Team
2 Posted by erna.gouws on 12 Sep, 2011 06:39 PM
Dear Fiona,
I switched my contraceptive pill from Yasmin to Yaz in March and that's more or less when I started gaining weight. No matter what I try it won't go down. I've seen my doctor again last week and we decided to change back to the Yasmin to see if thsat makes any difference.
In your experience, have you had similar cases where contraception hampers weight loss?
In the mean time, I am still sticking to the meal plan as I am determined to get those extra kilo's off.
Many thanks for your response!
Regards
Erna
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Support Staff 3 Posted by Dr. Rosedale on 13 Sep, 2011 03:54 AM
Absolutely... especially estrogens... wants you to store fat to get ready for pregnancy...