Judgment Free Zone

Who in the world needs fortified gummy bears. They're everywhere. They're made out of straight sugar, corn syrup, upside down sugar, more sugar and something really artificial and more high fructose corn syrup all in the same product with some form of vitamins.

I have been known to sit down and eat half a bottle of those at a whack. Everyone is eating fortified gummy bears. Prebiotic and probiotic gummy bears, fiber gummies. They trip my trigger.

I simply don't bring the offenders into the house or eat them in my vehicle. It's not good common horsesense to eat more than one at a time.

Do you like Gumbo. That's what I'm having for supper.

Fish, fish, fish makes you feel good. I eat whopping boatloads of fish. Fishes are essential to my moods and 'tudes. I drink mossy green tea with a tad of macadamia nut oil added to it. It's satisfying.

Fishes and good proteins keep me from dumpster diving and diving back into bags of gummy bears for entertainment. Self-soothing with your food triggers only digs a much deeper hole that can never be filled with food rewards.

I've tried to moderate and manage gummy bears. It was a ridiculous and useless experiment.
My time is better spent on investing in foods with dynamic and dunamis power. Good food fixes everything.

Good food captures nuances of practical energy that turns into a really good feeling.

Just like music. Gumbo. It's what's for supper. Keep dancin' you Cajun queens and kings out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6qe9I0d5KA&feature=youtu.be[/url]

Everyone has a different Health Equation. I've found weight stability with my own Positive Food Management Plan. I am a veteran dieter and no longer call it dieting. I'm through with all of that.

I created my own plan with foods and exercise that I enjoy. I do everything on my own terms.

A judgment free zone is a safe place to keep it civil, not judge or assume without understanding each other's context. Anyone can use any diet as a cover for disordered eating or a food addiction. That includes trying to outexercise one. I don't want to leap and jump into conclusions about motivations or situations here.

Feel free to share your good decisions.

With weight releasing there are always two hormones at play. Leptin and cortisol. Leptin is the hunger and satiety hormone and cortisol is the alertness hormone. When leptin is low it wants more fuel.

Leptin and cortisol have circadian rhythms and they run opposite of one another when they're working properly.
Leptin is low when cortisol is high.

In the morning when cortisol should be at its highest, leptin should be low.

In the evening when cortisol is low to get you naturally ready for sleep, your leptin should be high so you will be fully sated.

So if you don't have any of these signals going on, your metabolic cues are all messed up from too many wild swings UP and down with your blood sugar, too much dieting or overrestriction...it take months and months to get everything back on track. Eating when hunger ensues naturally. I've skipped meals every day and it didn't turn any of this around for me.

Circadian rhythms matter. Animals have them, too.

https://www.consumerreports.org/dieting-weight-loss/intermittent-fasting-no-miracle-path-to-weight-loss/


Front-load your meals. A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that obese women who ate the bulk of their daily calories (50 percent) at lunch lost 3 pounds more over the 12-week study period than those who ate most of their calories at dinner. We need more research looking at meal timing, but it may have cardiovascular benefits in addition to helping with weight loss.

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/104/4/982/4557122


Many obese people who are trying to lose weight are used to eating a higher-energy meal at dinner because of work commitments during the day and believe that they can have their main meal at dinner in a low-energy diet without any deleterious effects on their weight management. The findings of our current study may have practical implications indicating that the consumption of a main meal at lunch and not at dinner could improve weight loss when people use a weight-loss program.

The principal strengths of this study are, first, that it was a randomized, outpatient, clinical trial, in which subjects were following a comprehensive diet plan for weight control. Second, subjects wished to lose weight, and the study included middle-aged overweight and obese women who were able to comply with a weight-loss plan; thus, the women showed that they were motivated to adhere to the protocol of the weight-loss diet (44). Third, the provision of a free diet plan and a daily telephone call from a dietitian to each subject was an encouragement for regular biweekly visits with the dietitian when compliance could be encouraged in both groups. Also, because this study was conducted in a free-living population, the results can be directly related to obese and overweight women who seek to lose weight. In contrast, the limitation of the current study is the short-term intervention period. Future research is required to examine the long-term health effect of a high-energy lunch relative to a high-energy dinner to establish whether the benefits that we showed are sustained and result in an accumulative, clinically relevant difference in weight. In addition, this study was performed only in overweight and obese women who were attending a formal weight-loss program. Longer-term studies are required in a broader range of participants both in subjects in a formal weight-loss program and in individuals who are attempting to lose weight with less formal, intensive support.

In conclusion, the consumption of the main meal at lunch appears to provide beneficial effects on weight loss and insulin sensitivity in overweight and obese women who are adhering to a weight-loss program. Longer-term studies are required in both healthy overweight and obese patients and in individuals whose insulin sensitivity is compromised (e.g., prediabetic and diabetic patients).