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Most of us have been waging war against the excess fat we’ve stored up in our bodies but we aren’t sure why these deposits are so stubborn and never give up. A George Washington University weight loss expert unveils four facts related to fat cells that might help you lose weight.

Fact Number One: “Pre-fat cells” desperately want to become fat cells, and you’re probably helping them do just that

That’s right; right now, you are manufacturing millions of pre-fat cells, and what they really want to do is to become full-fledged fat cells (also called adipocytes, in scientific terms). And even though you don’t want them to do that, you are probably very likely helping them do just that. How can you change that?

A weight loss expert at George Washington University makes this conversion process clear: Pre fat cells do not store fat, on the other hand, full fledged fat cells do. Whenever the production of two hormones increases in our body, these pre fat cells get transformed into fat cells.

Those two hormones are insulin and cortisol, and you encourage their overproduction with your lifestyle.

Most often, cortisol is overproduced when you get too little sleep and have too much stress. Does that sound familiar? If it does, guess what? That’s right; you are stressing and under-sleeping your way to fat cell growth.

Little sleep and extra stress is also the reason behind the other hormone-insulin being produced in excess. Not only this, it is also over produced under the influence of our unhealthy food habits. Food which is high in simple carbohydrates, stimulate insulin production which results in weight gain thus and accumulation of fat deposits. Your insulin levels will also be higher than what they should be if you do not exercise.

Fact Number Two: Once you’ve got those fat cells, you keep them

You have got no one to blame but yourself. Your eating habits have resulted in acquiring these fat cells, and once you have them, they tend to stay with you for a life time. You have welcomed these unwanted friends because of lack of proper personal care. Since you never had sufficient sleep, right food, proper exercise and underwent severe stress, it has resulted in development of fat cells.

How can you change this?

Fact Number Three: Proper sleep can help you shun excess body weight

Try to have seven to nine hours of proper sleep without any distractions like TV etc. This can bring down the levels of cortisol hormones and at the same time increase the levels of friendly hormones like testosterone, leptin and growth hormone. Proper amount of leptin can help you make better food choices since it makes you less hungry and can increase your metabolic rate (useful in burning excess fat). Growth hormone and testosterone both are helpful in ensuring proper muscle growth and efficient fat burning.

You need not provide your body with any artificial supplements of these hormones. Proper sleep alone is sufficient in doing this job.

Fact Number Four: Proper sleep also reduces cortisol and insulin levels that keep fat storage under control

Our weight loss expert at George Washington University explains that fat cells once acquired never go away. But this does not mean that they store fat automatically without your involvement. Small amounts of fat are required for proper functioning of the body but to keep excess levels of fat off, reducing insulin levels will help by increasing levels of hormone sensitive lipase (HSL). HSL results in keeping fat out of the fat cells. While increased levels of insulin can raise the production of lipoprotein lipase. This lipoprotein lipase or LPL allows fat to come in and settle down. This is really not what any of us want.

There you have it; simply by sleeping better and making sure you destress as much as possible (along with a healthy diet and good exercise program, of course), you can watch those pounds of excess fat just melt away.

Josef Brandenburg is an award winning Georgetown University area weight loss expert. His clients depend on him to help them get the bodies they want in their spare time and without starving themselves or eating nasty food. Click here to find out more about his 7-Day Free Trial.