Marengo wrote:
Susan wrote:
Marengo wrote:

Not only that, but many obese people have trouble identifying the
difference between actual hunger and the psychological desire to eat.
(speaking from my own past experience).

Peter, it's those stress hormones that set off what people mistake for
psychological hunger... I don't buy the whole "filling an emotional
void" theory. I think it's a way to blame folks for a medical condition.

I know that when my cortisol is very high, I'm constantly looking to eat
even when I just have... when it drops, I don't. Same psyche, different
endocrine milieu.

Interesting. That would explain a lot actually.

Stress hormones are physiological yet much stress is driven by
psychology. There is far more interaction between the two than any of
the popular plans take into account. When there's a hormonal driver for
hunger no amount of "fix your head" is going to help. When there's a
psychological driver for eating no amount of "when there are no cravings
people will naturally eat less" is going to help. But a book that
really deals with both is going to be too big to become popular I
suspect. So how to condense both together into a book that fits the
size parameters of popular sales ...