The Biggest Loser - Opinions?

[OakLeaf]

You look great, abejita! (ScaldedCat too, if she comes back...)

I was just reading this in a waiting room last night. It's a pretty condensed summary, but basically, it says that the neurochemical basis for physical, calorie-deprived hunger, and for "psychologically" based "cravings," is pretty much identical. You really have to engage your mind, step back and analyze what your body is asking for, because your body is asking for it in almost exactly the same way in either case.

"Only eat when you're hungry" doesn't work for someone who hasn't done this analysis and learned to listen very, very closely to their body, because we ARE hungry when we're trying to stuff emotions by smothering them in food, or something similar. And then there's the other part of the equation, that some people can eat in a disordered fashion and stay slender, and other people can eat exactly the same way and gain.

Nothing made it clearer to me than when I was on a medication that caused weight gain. I didn't realize it was the medication that made me gain. But when I went off it, within four months I'd lost the 20# I'd gained on the med. No change in appetite. No change in eating habits. No change in activity. Nothing but a chemical change in my metabolism caused, in this case, by a single added substance.