Have you attempted all kinds of diets and weight loss plans and still cannot lose body weight? It may not be your fault. Find out how a hormone imbalance might be keeping you fat.

If you have tried all of the newest diets and plans to eliminate weight fast, you might be like my daughter, Nicole. A year ago she was shopping for a wedding dress and having a hard time due to her weight. She had experimented with everything from fad diets to extreme physical exercise regimens with no luck. Then she found the real reason she couldn't lose the pounds. She suffered from a hormone imbalance.

Our bodies are controlled by hormones and even those of us with the strongest will power can not win the fight against overweight if our bodies have a hormone imbalance. There are many glands that secrete hormones that help to regulate our weight but by far the most important is the thyroid gland. The hormones this gland secretes have a direct influence on our metabolisms and how rapidly our bodies get rid of fat. If your metabolism is too slow as a result of a hormone imbalance, you will never drop body weight through eating habits and exercise alone.

It hurts to be told you're weak, that you've got no will power, when you recognize the sacrifices that you are making to shed weight. People look down on you with pity or contempt. Even if they do not say anything, you know what they are thinking.

When Nicole was told her difficulty was that her hormones were out of balance, she started taking large doses of vitamin D, fish oils and other nutritional supplements. She eliminated certain things from her diet regime and added other things like broccoli, apples and lentils. With just a month to go before the wedding, the dress she picked out required significant alterations because she had shed over fifty pounds. It seemed like a crisis then but one we were happy to deal with.