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"Roger Zoul" wrote in message
... What does a set point do to your body -- if you lost to a point below your set point, will you just be hungry or will you just have appetite, no matter what kind of food you're eating? If I had a set point, I think it is somehow wired into my soul because I just like to eat. The set-point is just the weight your body tries to aim for. If you're above it, you feel less hungry and get satiated with less food. If you're bellow it, you feel hungry, satiate less quickly and crave calorie dense food. The appetite is still bounded (i.e., you will eventually feel satiated), but it will push you into eating more calories than you need to maintain. That's just part of the natural weight regulation system. That's why people who diet bellow their natural weight have a hellish time with hunger, while people who are very obese can lose their first pounds very easily with little hunger (as long as they don't starve themselves). Your set-point is supposed to remain pretty stable, though some things can change it over time (heavy exercising, drugs, menopause, smoking, hormones...). Of course, the fineprint of the set-point issue is that it is not aware of fashion, personnal preferences or even insurance companies policies (bmi). Some people just have a high set-point, and a natural weight at a bmi of 28 for instance. But if they just eat intuitively, they will remain at that weight, instead of moving up the scale. One theory on the increased rate of obesity, and especially of super-obesity, is that many naturally heavy people have been pushed on a diet bellow their natural weight, resulting in a lot of yo-yo and moving up the weight scale. There an egg and chicken problem with diets and obesity, each tends to feed the other. |
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"Roger Zoul" wrote in message
... What does a set point do to your body -- if you lost to a point below your set point, will you just be hungry or will you just have appetite, no matter what kind of food you're eating? If I had a set point, I think it is somehow wired into my soul because I just like to eat. The set-point is just the weight your body tries to aim for. If you're above it, you feel less hungry and get satiated with less food. If you're bellow it, you feel hungry, satiate less quickly and crave calorie dense food. The appetite is still bounded (i.e., you will eventually feel satiated), but it will push you into eating more calories than you need to maintain. That's just part of the natural weight regulation system. That's why people who diet bellow their natural weight have a hellish time with hunger, while people who are very obese can lose their first pounds very easily with little hunger (as long as they don't starve themselves). Your set-point is supposed to remain pretty stable, though some things can change it over time (heavy exercising, drugs, menopause, smoking, hormones...). Of course, the fineprint of the set-point issue is that it is not aware of fashion, personnal preferences or even insurance companies policies (bmi). Some people just have a high set-point, and a natural weight at a bmi of 28 for instance. But if they just eat intuitively, they will remain at that weight, instead of moving up the scale. One theory on the increased rate of obesity, and especially of super-obesity, is that many naturally heavy people have been pushed on a diet bellow their natural weight, resulting in a lot of yo-yo and moving up the weight scale. There an egg and chicken problem with diets and obesity, each tends to feed the other. |
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"Roger Zoul" wrote in message
... What does a set point do to your body -- if you lost to a point below your set point, will you just be hungry or will you just have appetite, no matter what kind of food you're eating? If I had a set point, I think it is somehow wired into my soul because I just like to eat. The set-point is just the weight your body tries to aim for. If you're above it, you feel less hungry and get satiated with less food. If you're bellow it, you feel hungry, satiate less quickly and crave calorie dense food. The appetite is still bounded (i.e., you will eventually feel satiated), but it will push you into eating more calories than you need to maintain. That's just part of the natural weight regulation system. That's why people who diet bellow their natural weight have a hellish time with hunger, while people who are very obese can lose their first pounds very easily with little hunger (as long as they don't starve themselves). Your set-point is supposed to remain pretty stable, though some things can change it over time (heavy exercising, drugs, menopause, smoking, hormones...). Of course, the fineprint of the set-point issue is that it is not aware of fashion, personnal preferences or even insurance companies policies (bmi). Some people just have a high set-point, and a natural weight at a bmi of 28 for instance. But if they just eat intuitively, they will remain at that weight, instead of moving up the scale. One theory on the increased rate of obesity, and especially of super-obesity, is that many naturally heavy people have been pushed on a diet bellow their natural weight, resulting in a lot of yo-yo and moving up the weight scale. There an egg and chicken problem with diets and obesity, each tends to feed the other. |
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