The Venus Factor
The Venus Factor is the first and only weight loss plan designed to dramatically increase female metabolism and bring out the sexy goddess in you by delivering fast, long term, enjoyable fat loss.
What John Barban says
Men
and Women Are NOT Created Equal When It Comes to Weight Loss
Men
and women have to deal with different issues when it comes to many aspects of
their
body and weight loss is no exception.
This
is because the hormonal environment is different from man to woman. For
starters
testosterone and estrogen are dramatically different from man to woman
and
even more specific to weight loss leptin levels are also different.
Leptin
plays a vital role in the control of appetite, metabolism and the signals
involved
in weight gain and weight loss. Leptin levels rise when you eat and fall
when
you’re not eating. This helps control your sense of hunger and your metabolic
rate
to keep you from gaining or losing weight. As long as they don’t rise too high
or
fall
too low you’ll remain weight stable and feel fine.
When
attempting to diet ‘hard’ leptin levels can fall too far too fast and you will
find
it
very difficult to lose weight. In fact you can eventually crash and experience
big
rebound
weight gain.
This
is dramatic rise and fall of leptin could very well be what is causing so many
restrictive
diets to fail and so many people to gain all the weight back and then
some!
This
effect seems to be worse in women than in men and it’s because women have
higher
leptin levels to start with that drop far lower than a mans when they diet.
In
other words, when it comes to leptin levels and dieting, women have
higher
‘highs’ and lower ‘lows’. It’s these dramatic swings in leptin that can lead to
the
crash and rebound weight gain that so many women experience on standard
restrictive
diets.
In
contrast a man’s leptin levels rise and fall very predictably and within a
relative
small
range. The high’s aren’t too high and the low’s aren’t too low, and as a result
men
can follow a pretty mundane, straight forward calorie restrictive diet and make
it
through to the end without a major crash or rebound and essentially lose all
the
weight
they want.
This
explains why men seem to have an easier time losing weight than women. Or
to
say it another way, weight loss for men is pretty straight forward and doesn’t
require
much creativity when it comes to the diet.
Women
on the other hand experience dramatic swings in leptin that require a more
intelligently
designed diet to minimize these big swings in leptin levels. One of the
techniques
that has become popular is the idea of adding in a ‘cheat’ day. This is a
day
during your diet program where you’re instructed to eat more food and more
carbs
specifically to attempt to bring your leptin levels back up after days and days
of
dieting and lowering your leptin levels. Knowing that leptin drops farther and
faster
in women it stands to reason that the ‘cheat day’ is a more useful tool for
women
as well. But the concept of ‘cheating’ seems a bit problematic to me and
needs
some adjustments’.
I
don’t like the word ‘cheat’ as it implies you’re doing something wrong, and it
also
implies
that you should be going ‘all out’ on junk food and whatever else you can get
your
hands on. This leaves the door open to really overdoing that day.
I
would rather call it a strategic ‘eat-up’ day.
Women
need these strategic “eat-up” days throughout their weight loss program to
prevent
their leptin levels from crashing and rebound weight gain from happening.
And
they need these days more often than men.
For
example a man could probably make it two or even three weeks eating very low
calories
and minimal carbs without having a serious crash in leptin levels and thus
no
major consequences to their weight loss progress.
Women
on the other hand need a to add in these ‘eat up’ days weekly to keep leptin
levels
consistent and keep the fat burning going.
To
say it another way, we’re really talking about is hitting the sweet spot
between
just
enough ‘diet days’ combined with just enough ‘eat up’ days.
As
a woman once you hit this sweet spot the fat will come off faster than you
think
and
the process itself will be much more enjoyable because you get to take periodic
breaks
from the diet.
