Have you attempted all sorts of diets and weight loss plans and still can't lose weight? It may not be your fault. Read how a hormone imbalance might be making you fat.

If you've tried all the latest diets and plans to lose pounds fast, you could be like my daughter, Nicole. A year ago she was shopping for a wedding dress and having a tough time due to her body weight. She had attempted everything from fad diets to extreme workout regimens with no luck. Then she discovered the actual reason she wasn't able to lose the pounds. She had a hormone imbalance.

Our systems are controlled by hormones and even those of us with the strongest will power can not win the fight against extra pounds if our bodies are out of whack. There are numerous glands that secrete hormones that help to regulate our body weight but by far the most crucial is the thyroid gland. The hormones it secretes have a direct impact on our metabolisms and how fast our bodies eliminate fat. If your metabolism is too slow due to a hormone imbalance, you'll never reduce excess weight through diet regimes and exercise alone.

It hurts to be told that you are weak, that you have no will power, when you recognize the sacrifices you are making to eliminate weight. Folks look down on you with pity or scorn. Even if they don't mention it, you know what they are thinking.

When Nicole was told her trouble was that her hormones were not right, she started taking very large doses of fish oils, vitamin D and other nutritional supplements. She eliminated certain things from her food plan and added other things like apples, broccoli and lentils. With only a month to go before the wedding ceremony, the dress she picked out needed massive alterations since she had lost over fifty pounds. That seemed like a crisis then but it was one we were happy to deal with.