And now the #1 reason fatties lose the weight loss game……
APPETITE.
Now, the way this works is like the typical catch 22 — and I will explain this the way my Dr. explained it to me:
Your appetite responds to how much your digestive system is working. The more you eat, the more hungry you are. The less you eat, your brain then adjusts to that as well and responds with less signals for food and less tolerance for massive amounts of food. The problem is that it takes a while for your brain to sort out either one.
Eventually, if you are eating less, your stomach will stop signaling your brain so often. If you cheat and give in to the pizza or whatever makes your belly growl like a lion, it’s a step backwards that may set you back at square one, depending on how FUBAR your digestive system is. Obese people have lame digestive systems that are overworked. If someone tells you they are obese and they eat normal sized healthy meals and get regular exercise, they are liars. You get obese when you consume more energy than your body can use. This is basic 6th grade science. No one, not even God, defies the laws of physics.
Appetite supression was something I struggled hard with for a long time, and still have struggles with. Yes, the no cheating rule, no cheating no matter what, although it has over time helped to lessen my appetite, my digestive system still has a long journey from here to normal. Now it is not so often, but sometimes, a HUGE WAVE of hunger will swallow my entire soul. You know the feeling, fellow fatties. It’s pure torture. Normal sized people cannot comprehend the pain. In their minds, we’re “weak.” But, there is so much more going on biologically with these kinds of brain signals… it’s not weakness and it’s not demon possession. I can say that normal sized people cannot comprehend the pain because I was once, and for most of my life, a normal sized person.
Instead of trying to sit it out, I’ve taken a shine to embracing the thing. Embracing it and then setting my personal tools to work on it. 1. Specific low volume, low calorie, easy digested foods (probiotic foods are my personal favorite) 2. My cookbooks. My cookbooks are like porn to me. (I can “get off” on them whilst sipping on my kefir shake, I don’t need the “real thing.”) 3. Getting up and jumping on my rebounder after I indulge in food porn.
Go ahead and laugh. But you know what? Everyone has tools like this that can keep you from cheating and lessen the impact of these moments of digestive system/brain horrorshows. The key is you have to figure out what yours are. Losing weight, I have discovered, is such an individual process that there isn’t any “diet” or “weight loss plan” on the planet that really works. It is within YOU.
I’d like to hear from you what tools work to keep you on the path. Where you learned about them and how long it took you to discover what is working for you and what does not.
Appetite Suppression
And now the #1 reason fatties lose the weight loss game……
APPETITE.
Now, the way this works is like the typical catch 22 — and I will explain this the way my Dr. explained it to me:
Your appetite responds to how much your digestive system is working. The more you eat, the more hungry you are. The less you eat, your brain then adjusts to that as well and responds with less signals for food and less tolerance for massive amounts of food. The problem is that it takes a while for your brain to sort out either one.
Eventually, if you are eating less, your stomach will stop signaling your brain so often. If you cheat and give in to the pizza or whatever makes your belly growl like a lion, it’s a step backwards that may set you back at square one, depending on how FUBAR your digestive system is. Obese people have lame digestive systems that are overworked. If someone tells you they are obese and they eat normal sized healthy meals and get regular exercise, they are liars. You get obese when you consume more energy than your body can use. This is basic 6th grade science. No one, not even God, defies the laws of physics.
Appetite supression was something I struggled hard with for a long time, and still have struggles with. Yes, the no cheating rule, no cheating no matter what, although it has over time helped to lessen my appetite, my digestive system still has a long journey from here to normal. Now it is not so often, but sometimes, a HUGE WAVE of hunger will swallow my entire soul. You know the feeling, fellow fatties. It’s pure torture. Normal sized people cannot comprehend the pain. In their minds, we’re “weak.” But, there is so much more going on biologically with these kinds of brain signals… it’s not weakness and it’s not demon possession. I can say that normal sized people cannot comprehend the pain because I was once, and for most of my life, a normal sized person.
Instead of trying to sit it out, I’ve taken a shine to embracing the thing. Embracing it and then setting my personal tools to work on it. 1. Specific low volume, low calorie, easy digested foods (probiotic foods are my personal favorite) 2. My cookbooks. My cookbooks are like porn to me. (I can “get off” on them whilst sipping on my kefir shake, I don’t need the “real thing.”) 3. Getting up and jumping on my rebounder after I indulge in food porn.
Go ahead and laugh. But you know what? Everyone has tools like this that can keep you from cheating and lessen the impact of these moments of digestive system/brain horrorshows. The key is you have to figure out what yours are. Losing weight, I have discovered, is such an individual process that there isn’t any “diet” or “weight loss plan” on the planet that really works. It is within YOU.
I’d like to hear from you what tools work to keep you on the path. Where you learned about them and how long it took you to discover what is working for you and what does not.