Why are 100 million overweight Americans having such difficulty losing weight? The answer is that we are always hungry (or at least we think we are). The search for food is one of our strongest drives; it is deeply ingrained in us and is necessary for the survival of our species. But we have reached a stage of development in our societies where we are constantly exposed to high-calorie, easily obtainable, pleasing and inexpensive food. All of this food overwhelms our control mechanisms and we just cannot stop eating.
Hunger is a normal reaction to the absence of food in our system; it is our body's way of signaling to us that we need to eat. People who have succeeded in their weight loss programs understood that controlling the feeling of hunger by understanding the factors that stimulate it was possible. Hunger management is as important to losing and keeping off weight as pain management is to modern surgery. In order to successfully manage hunger we must first learn to recognize the difference between hunger and cravings. The "growling" of our stomach, often accompanied by fatigue, weakness and thoughts of food, is hunger. Cravings are simply a very powerful, irrational need for specific types of foods. Cravings occur even when we are not hungry or after we have just finished a large meal. Hunger is a necessary physical need while cravings are emotional desires.
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Three distinct factors create the feeling of hunger:
o Internal chemicals in the brain and blood.
o Type of foods we eat or do not eat enough of.
o External cues and stimuli to eat.
Hormones can create Hunger
Many obese individuals are unable to lose weight because of hormonal imbalances in their brains and blood. They never feel full because they either lack certain hormones or have too much of them. Often the brain's appetite center fails to recognize the signals for how often we eat and how much we eat the way it should. These are some of the reasons that certain very overweight people cannot lose weight and disproves the statement that willpower must play a role in dieting.
The master hormone in charge of our eating is Leptin (from the Greek word leptos, meaning thin), which is produced by our fat cells. After Leptin is made it circulates in our blood. When it reaches the brain Leptin tells our brain how much fat we have stored in our fat cells. When our fat storage is normal Leptin tells us to stop eating. It was first believed that obese people might be overeating because they have too little Leptin. To every body's surprise obese people have too much Leptin. However, their brain does not recognize the Leptin present and acts as if there is no Leptin at all and therefore zero stored fat. Therefore they feel like starving all the time and eat and eat. This process is very similar to the type 2 diabetes, where Insulin levels are high and not low, but that Insulin, just like the Leptin has simply become ineffective. Both these hormonal dysfunctions play a pivotal role in the accumulation of fat in overweight people. Will power and the ability to make better choices can easily be overwhelmed by these powerful hormonal forces.
In part 2 and 3 hunger due to external cues and eating the wrong food is explored.
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