Posted on 04/14/2009 11:42:35 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
But veteran dieters know something that some researchers apparently don't: Certain foods seem to fuel the appetite like pouring gasoline on a fire. Some people find that once they start eating bread, cookies, chocolate, potato chips -- or leftover Easter candy -- they lose all sense of fullness and find it difficult to stop.
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After 23 years of treating patients -- some of it espousing liquid diets -- Dr. Aronne has concluded that refined carbohydrates and foods with high sugar and fat content promote what he calls "fullness resistance." They interfere with the complex hormonal messages the body usually sends to the brain to signal that it's time to stop eating. People feel hungrier instead.
This happens in part because refined carbohydrates raise blood-sugar levels, setting up an insulin surge that drives blood sugar down again, causing rebound hunger. That insulin spike also interferes with leptin, the hormone secreted by fat cells that should tell the body to stop eating. Obese people have loads of leptin, but it either doesn't get to the brain, or the brain becomes resistant to it. "This is not a failure of willpower, it's a physical mechanism," Dr. Aronne writes. The body also becomes resistant to insulin, setting the stage for diabetes.
Other researchers have described similar phenomena. An article in this month's Medical Hypothesis argues that for some people, refined foods with high sugar and carbohydrate content can be just as addictive as tobacco and alcohol.
Eating foods high in protein, vegetables, fiber and water have the opposite effect, Dr. Aronne says. His plan recommends revising what you eat, one meal at a time, to restore your sense of fullness:
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
I have a heart rate monitor (Wall-Mart now sells them cheaply) and wear it when I bike, walk, or do anything like exercise and it has helped me retrain my thinking about exercise.
Yard work and house work can be great forms of exercise if you keep your heart rate high.
I use to be a running nut and was always very skinny. Due to foot injuries, I now ride an old beat up mountain bike. It is hard to get skinny no matter how much I ride, but dieting helps.
I understand this. Not only did I not watch my fat, but my carb intake was higher than it should, due to a gastritis problem, and carbs were just easier on the tummy.
So now I’m back to carbs in the am, and dinners consisting of 3to 4 oz protein with a salad or veggie.
well, you know, bacon is good stuff. we need some fat in our diet...for our skin, our hair, etc. Women especially who cut out all fat are making a serious mistake.
Oh no. I’m not giving up my fat. :) In fact, I’m embarrassed at how much butter we go through in a week. I bake a lot of cookies for my son and his friends, so that is my excuse.
Whoa. I guess I’ll have a margarita with my bacon. Oh happy morning, LOL!
I used to be a skinny guy, but I had a career change about 8 years ago (from construction to big truck driver) and my wife went home 4 1/2 years ago.
Both, I know, are elemental in the physical activity (or lack) I experience.
When I drive, I drink coffee and snack on carrots, cukes, etc (I'm going to change my name to Harvey)
don't eat regular bacon. maybe as a treat on sunday's.
i drink unsweetened vanilla almond milk. i blend some frozen fruit in to give it some flavor.
70-80% of fitness results is diet. seriously. eat well 6 days, and on the 7th day, eat what you want.
work out. i do it 6 days a week for an hour on average. more in the summer. just make it fun so you'll stick with it.
i’m going on a tropical vacation next week. you can bet that will be my breakfast! ha!
The answer to this question is deceptively simple. So simple in fact that billions of dollars are spent every year in this country trying to exploit the difficulty people have in accepting the correct answer.
The correct answer is: Consume fewer calories than you expend.
And exercise, while good for your heart and muscle tone, really doesn't help all that much with actual weight loss.
For example, jogging consumes about 413 calories per hour. A bean burrito has about 450 calories.
So, you can jog for an hour. Or you can skip the burrito. The effect is about the same.
“Dr. Atkins wrote the same thing over 30 years ago.”
Correct.
Until I discovered Dr. Atkins many, many years ago, I had someone ask me: “How do you keep your weight down?”
My reply was: “I am hungry all the time.” It was a true statement on my part.
Thank God for Dr. Adkins. I have never felt hunger again.
On rare occasions I will eat my love...ice cream...or pecan pie topped with ice cream and whipped cream stacked a mile high when I go out to eat which is only about twice a month.
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Sounds like your diet is great...I also love rabbit food.
With regard to exercise, an old coach of mine told me that persistence is everything. The nice thing about being older is you'er not so much in a hurry. If you just do one push up a day and increase by adding one a week, within a year you would be doing 52 a day. The key to exercise is always adding on a little more time and variety of exercise and slowly build intensity.
No matter what you do exercise-wise, it changes your brain chemistry for the better and eventually become addictive (in a very nice way).
Best of luck with your program.
I don’t watch what I eat, but then I don’t eat much. It’s a hereditary thing, I think.
I always accused my mom of eating like a bird, just a peck here and there. Now my son accuses me of the same thing. I wouldn’t turn down some bacon and fresh, crispy hashbrowns though. :)
Housework, walking the dogs and gardening are my exercise. We’ve got some neat woods and farm fields around our house so it’s fun to go out and explore.
Have a wonderful time on your tropical vacation! That sounds so great. I’m celebrating 60 degrees here in Minnesota. It feels like Hawaii. :)
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Please expound on this unique metabolic mechanism and how it differs from any other carbohydrate like, say, sugar (sucrose).
I was quite overweight for about one year. Stress in life had led me to eat more than usual, and I continued the trend.
The single most important thing that helped me lose 50 lbs. within the space of 5 months was WRITING DOWN MY CALORIC INTAKE EVERY DAY.
I wasn’t paying attention to just how much I was putting in my stomach. When you see the totals at the end of the day, it’s incentive to control your intake, and it’s empowering to keep track of what you eat.
I didn’t need any fancy diet plan, books, or weight loss program. Just write the numbers down, and shoot for reducing your intake to 2000 calories or less.
Yea, you get hungry, but just look at the list. It helps.
There are a million ideas that help.
Keep working on it...and good luck!
[snip] Some people find that once they start eating bread, cookies, chocolate, potato chips — or leftover Easter candy — they lose all sense of fullness and find it difficult to stop. ... After 23 years of treating patients — some of it espousing liquid diets — Dr. Aronne has concluded that refined carbohydrates and foods with high sugar and fat content promote what he calls “fullness resistance.” [end]
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