Comments on: Satisfaction and Hunger Signals http://smallstepstohealth.com/2008/07/satisfaction-and-hunger-signals/ Never take orders from a cookie! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:18:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: asithi http://smallstepstohealth.com/2008/07/satisfaction-and-hunger-signals/#comment-962 asithi Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:33:51 +0000 http://smallstepstohealth.com/2008/07/satisfaction-and-hunger-signals/#comment-962 <a href='#comment-941' rel="nofollow">@VitaminLove</a> - Hmm... your comment made me realize that "getting rid of our precious muscle mass" might sound a little confusing. Our bodies do not eat our muscle mass. Let me clarify. When our bodies get into starvation mode, it is a signal to stop feeding our muscles since it is not as vital as other body parts such as our brains or our hearts. So our muscles mass will shrink first before our bodies are willing to give up the stored fat. And when you decrease the amount of muscle mass in our bodies, you also decrease the ability to burn off excess calories.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('962','asithi'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('962','asithi','<a href=\'#comment-941\' rel=\"nofollow\">@VitaminLove<\/a> - Hmm... your comment made me realize that \"getting rid of our precious muscle mass\" might sound a little confusing. Our bodies do not eat our muscle mass. Let me clarify.\r\n\r\nWhen our bodies get into starvation mode, it is a signal to stop feeding our muscles since it is not as vital as other body parts such as our brains or our hearts. So our muscles mass will shrink first before our bodies are willing to give up the stored fat. And when you decrease the amount of muscle mass in our bodies, you also decrease the ability to burn off excess calories.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @VitaminLove - Hmm… your comment made me realize that “getting rid of our precious muscle mass” might sound a little confusing. Our bodies do not eat our muscle mass. Let me clarify.

When our bodies get into starvation mode, it is a signal to stop feeding our muscles since it is not as vital as other body parts such as our brains or our hearts. So our muscles mass will shrink first before our bodies are willing to give up the stored fat. And when you decrease the amount of muscle mass in our bodies, you also decrease the ability to burn off excess calories.

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]]> By: VitaminLove http://smallstepstohealth.com/2008/07/satisfaction-and-hunger-signals/#comment-941 VitaminLove Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:30:42 +0000 http://smallstepstohealth.com/2008/07/satisfaction-and-hunger-signals/#comment-941 Correct me if I'm wrong, but your body doesn't eat its muscle mass first; that's going against what nature intended. Fat is stored energy, and is meant to be eaten up first when losing weight. Think of a 300 lb person restricting their calories drastically; would they just lose all of their muscle and be left with all of their fat to help them get around? Definetly not. The same is true in anorexia; the body only moves onto eating away at its muscle mass once alllll of its fat reserves have been used up and has no other choice. The heart is a muscle-would your body chose to use that for energy first?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('941','VitaminLove'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('941','VitaminLove','Correct me if I\'m wrong, but your body doesn\'t eat its muscle mass first; that\'s going against what nature intended. Fat is stored energy, and is meant to be eaten up first when losing weight. Think of a 300 lb person restricting their calories drastically; would they just lose all of their muscle and be left with all of their fat to help them get around? Definetly not. The same is true in anorexia; the body only moves onto eating away at its muscle mass once alllll of its fat reserves have been used up and has no other choice. The heart is a muscle-would your body chose to use that for energy first?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Correct me if I’m wrong, but your body doesn’t eat its muscle mass first; that’s going against what nature intended. Fat is stored energy, and is meant to be eaten up first when losing weight. Think of a 300 lb person restricting their calories drastically; would they just lose all of their muscle and be left with all of their fat to help them get around? Definetly not. The same is true in anorexia; the body only moves onto eating away at its muscle mass once alllll of its fat reserves have been used up and has no other choice. The heart is a muscle-would your body chose to use that for energy first?
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]]> By: MizFit http://smallstepstohealth.com/2008/07/satisfaction-and-hunger-signals/#comment-200 MizFit Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:05:30 +0000 http://smallstepstohealth.com/2008/07/satisfaction-and-hunger-signals/#comment-200 yes *yes* YES!!!!!! it's hard to embrace the fact that eating often, clean and not a lot will really help us (the royal) shed pounds and stay fit. great post and worded so well. Miz. MizFits last blog post..<a href="http://mizfitonline.com/2008/07/17/guest-chef-time-the-imnotworthy-imnotworthy-edition/" rel="nofollow">Guest Chef Time: The ImNotWorthy ImNotWorthy edition.</a><div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('200','MizFit'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('200','MizFit','yes\r\n*yes*\r\nYES!!!!!!\r\nit\'s hard to embrace the fact that eating often, clean and not a lot will really help us (the royal) shed pounds and stay fit.\r\n\r\ngreat post and worded so well.\r\n\r\nMiz.\n\nMizFits last blog post..<a href=\"http:\/\/mizfitonline.com\/2008\/07\/17\/guest-chef-time-the-imnotworthy-imnotworthy-edition\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Guest Chef Time: The ImNotWorthy ImNotWorthy edition.<\/a>'); return false;">Quote</a></div> yes
*yes*
YES!!!!!!
it’s hard to embrace the fact that eating often, clean and not a lot will really help us (the royal) shed pounds and stay fit.

great post and worded so well.

Miz.

MizFits last blog post..Guest Chef Time: The ImNotWorthy ImNotWorthy edition.

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]]> By: goodbyetoallfat http://smallstepstohealth.com/2008/07/satisfaction-and-hunger-signals/#comment-198 goodbyetoallfat Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:50:23 +0000 http://smallstepstohealth.com/2008/07/satisfaction-and-hunger-signals/#comment-198 I found this post and the previous one about stomach size very revealing. Obviously as an obese person I have stretched my stomach over the years and I now have the task of trying to reduce it again, as you said eating little and often will help with that, and will also help with not kicking the starvation mechanisn.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('198','goodbyetoallfat'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('198','goodbyetoallfat','I found this post and the previous one about stomach size very revealing. Obviously as an obese person I have stretched my stomach over the years and I now have the task of trying to reduce it again, as you said eating little and often will help with that, and will also help with not kicking the starvation mechanisn.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I found this post and the previous one about stomach size very revealing. Obviously as an obese person I have stretched my stomach over the years and I now have the task of trying to reduce it again, as you said eating little and often will help with that, and will also help with not kicking the starvation mechanisn.
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