Waking up in the middle of the night just to eat?!!!

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  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    psychod787 wrote: »
    grammagrape wrote: »
    psychod787 wrote: »
    Sorry for the rather long winded info earlier. Just wanted to let you know that you were not alone or weak willed. That i think it has/does happen to most of us and that I believe there is some biology to it. Best wishes and nourish yourself well with all that exercise.

    Absolutely there's some biology to it..we've been evolving for 200,000 years as homo sapiens and 2 MILLION years as hominids. We are programmed over that long evolution to seek food, store food, expend as few calories as possible, and to ratchet into survival mode if we go on deficit. Imagine taking 2 million years to evolve food survival skills, and only in the last 50 years to try to undo those 2 million years. The trick is tricking our bodies and our thousands and thousands of years of evolution. Never go too low with your calories because your body..for its survival..has evolved the skills of slowing down its metabolism to burn less, while increasing your cravings to get you to eat.
    Its seen in all animals, not just humans. Ask any cat owner- Cat food with poor protein levels keep the cat eating and eating and eating (and eating) while it tries to get the proper nutrition it needs, so the cat gets fat because its on a nutritional deficit and not getting enough protein. Humans do exactly the same. So begin with protein every time. There is an ideal but narrow calorie window in which you lose weight but not so low that you trigger starvation mode. Yo-yo dieting is a no-no, since it it makes your calories too low so that your body responds you into gaining it all back while slowing your metabolism, every time. Crash diets fail for the same reason, your body slows its metabolic rate down when you go too low, and when you go off the diet, your evolution forces binge cravings and gain it all back. Absolutely biology.

    Get enough protein first, and keep your calories JUST under break-even, and it will curve your carb cravings and midnight raids without kicking you into starvation mode, so that your weight loss lasts.

    Wow... woo's as well for you. I hope the person who is doing it will post their ideas.

    There are lots of people on the site who think "woo" means "woo-hoo!" (good for you!) I'm in a team competition and whenever somebody does something good, a few people insist on clicking the woo button to celebrate it. LOL. So maybe it's just someone praising everyone? :/

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