Marijuana and weight loss?

OK guys, here are a couple links to pubmed abstracts dealing with the QUESTION AT HAND, if it was ever really "at hand".

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21172406
jo's summary: rats received injections of cannabidiol every day for two weeks. This produced a significant decrease in body weight gain.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20180990
jo's summary: the activation of cannabinoid receptors in the brain has a hand in regulating feeding behaviour, especially in regards to tasty food. Your brain tells you to eat when you smoke.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15777191
"early Phase III results have recently demonstrated significant reductions in body weight, waist circumference and improvement of lipid and glucose metabolism in overweight and obese humans. Accordingly, the cannabinoid system appears to have an important role in the regulation of ingestive behaviour in man and animals."



In effect, it is possible that you may be less likely to gain wait from the food you eat regularly when smoking daily, but your behaviour will also be modified to make it more likely that you will eat. You will be ravenous, but you will be less likely to gain weight.

THERE.

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Your not likely to lose any weight. Whether you smoke it, eat it or vaporize it.

In the last two choices you are not putting any toxins into your body besides the THC and CBD that is in Marijuana.

If you need to gain weight, marijuana is a better plan for that, hence why it is prescribed to cancer patients....

Good luck!

I don't know about all of you guys, but back in my bar star days, when I smoked a joint, I would clean my but off!!!

I was the same way.....Too bad its not legal I would have a clean house now lol. PS this thread has made me laugh so hard. Awwwww memories!!!

I have no idea how it could affect weight loss... but I'm willing to give one up for the team and volunteer to be the test subject!!!!

Oh you're going to like my answer! No. Absolutely not. I smoke herb daily. (pals, please don't disown me for outting myself!) I have lost 65 pounds and smoking has not hindered my success. I agree with the others who said the munchies would obviously create a bit of a problem. I was able to keep those over-eating moments under control. It's all about being accountable and logging those calories. Of course alcohol makes you gain if not just for the calories in it alone.. weed doesn't have calories! That is definitely one of it's perks. If you have any other thoughts or questions.. feel free to send me a message!
Editing to say.. best of luck to you!!

It never hindered my weight loss either, I'm down 91lbs and used to use the herbs daily. I actually haven't smoked in almost a month now though due to money shortages....LOL

I am down 115lbs and I can say it never hindered my weightloss either.

I think this is one of those things that depend on the person - some people can smoke and go out and exercise and eat healthy and not give in to the munchies. Other people can't. Figure out which kind of person you are and then act accordingly. Our bodies and minds respond to things differently - what works for me might not work for someone else. This seems like the "eat/don't eat your exercise calories" debate.

Are you for real Halobender? If a thread was winding me up this much I'd just not read it :laugh:

No no no nonononononono I'm just sick of people responding with something that is totally off topic. Seriously, everyone knows that marijuana is stereotyped as causing munchies. They're simply responding to the thread title. It just annoys me. No one in the world is trying to use marijuana as a weight loss supplement, are they? And yet they're responding as though the thread were actually about that at all.

Asking whether weed causes weight loss or gain is like asking whether watching tv causes weight loss or gain. It depends.

If you smoke weed and run a marathon you'll get one answer; if you watch American Idol while scooping sour cream into you mug you'll get another.

And vice/versa.

The "munchies" are a myth and abstraction, perpetuated by those who hate weed and want to pin weight gain on those who smoke. It's just not that simple. Accusing someone of weight because of their weed smoking is just lame.

LOL @ this topic...oh if I had smoked a joint before I read it I'd be laughing even harder.
Ok I could see no reason why maryjane can help with weight loss considering it's used as an appetite stimulator for people that are wasting away or suffering from wasting during chemotherapy. So, it's a NO on weight loss.

Alcohol? Empty happy calories, if you're a happy drunk that is. But you should know that we women keep on getting the rotten end of the deal with alcohol. It's worse for us than men, we can drink far far less per day and be considered drinking within healthy standards (you know, for your liver and cancer and heart issues) and it causes health issues with us a lot sooner. I swear, some days I could say it sucks to be a woman.

I don't know about all of you guys, but back in my bar star days, when I smoked a joint, I would clean my but off!!!

OH yeah, weed always made me clean like a psycho. Too bad it was the same spot over and over again LOL..just kidding, but very nearly so. I had tunnel vision haha.

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The "munchies" are a myth and abstraction, perpetuated by those who hate weed and want to pin weight gain on those who smoke.

Ah, the voice of INexperience.


Gimme a break. I don't hate weed. I have no ulterior motive to say that smoking gives people the munchies other than to say the truth. Does that mean smokers are powerless in the face of the munchies to resist? Duh, no. It's just like birth control. It will give you the urge to eat more, but actual weight gain will depend on whether or not you do.

Interesting old news story I stumbled across (from the 2002). Incidentally, Rimonabant, the weight loss drug they developed via this research has been withdrawn in 2010 as it is benefits outweighed the risks.

"Scientists believe the hunger-inducing effects of cannabis can be used to tackle obesity.
Smoking cannabis often triggers an urge to eat - what smokers sometimes refer to as "the munchies".

But researchers at French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Synthelabo believe this chemical effect can be manipulated to curb hunger.

They are currently testing a drug which uses the scientific knowledge about cannabis to suppress appetite.

Early results from clinical trials on the experimental drug Rimonabant in the United States and Europe have been promising.

Patients taking the drug lost up to four kilos over a 16 week period.

Early theory

Doctors originally thought that cannabis affected the brain in a fairly random manner and that one of those random effects was hunger.

However, studies in the late 1980s showed that cannabis has a direct impact on appetite.

It triggers a surge in the brain's own cannabis-like chemicals.

These chemicals, called cannabinoids, play a role in regulating appetite.

Scientists at Sanofi-Synthelabo then discovered a way of blocking off receptors in the brain to stop these cannabinoids from sending "hungry" messages.

They have since developed a drug to perform this function. Successful results in animals have led to trials in humans.

The company is now half way through a phase III clinical trial involving more than 6,000 patients.

Human trials

This includes one study in the US where 2,800 patients comparing the performance of Rimonabant with a dummy pill to see if it helps to reduce weight and prevent weight gain.

A similar trial involving 1,400 patients in Europe is also underway. Both studies are due to end in August 2003.

Dr Lewis Aronne, director of the comprehensive weight control programme at the Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, said early results were promising. His clinic is one of those involved in the trials.

He said weight loss among patients was "in the same ballpark as medicines we've seen before".

However, he added more research was needed to determine the long-term effects of the drug.

If the clinical trials are successful, the pharmaceutical company could seek approval for the new drug in 2004."
Original article at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2194957.stm

....okay, well thanks for the responses everyone, lol. I think I got the answers I was looking for (sorta!). :laugh:

I still don't think that you should use marijuana as a weight loss supplement ...