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I thought this information to be very important to the daily fight. A good reason why heavy people need and should forgive themselves for slip ups. I hear people say,”No excuses!” But if the science points to a real bio-neurological reason as to why it is so difficult for the obese to stick out a nutrition program, we need to sit up and listen!
That said, we heavy people have to forgive ourselves everytime we “fail”and just start again…
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Thank you for posting this! My mom is diabetic and has no ability to control herself when it comes to sweet foods. She also responds differently to foods in general than I do, and it sometimes seems quite odd to me. From living with her again as an adult, where she’s sometimes iffy in her mental state and therefore no longer tries to hide any of her tendencies, I see her behaving toward food in ways which just don’t make sense to me. And I’ve repeatedly told her that I believe there’s something different in her brain than mine in how she reacts to food. It’s not exactly the hunger factor this article is about, but a similar kind of “that’s not how a healthy person reacts” issue. I try to work with her to help her figure out strategies for controlling that aspect of her eating issues.
She actually is very lacking in normal hunger other than uncontrollable bingeing on sweets, and when she was out of work so couldn’t go buy her own groceries in the past, I stocked her up only with good things. She was walking multiple miles a day, and found herself eating constantly while dropping weight pretty quickly – 50lbs in about six months. And she hated it.
I think it all comes down to, we’re all individuals, and just have to figure out what works for us!
Very interesting article, thanks for posting.