| Re: OP Update - 3000 miles in 10 months... so Why am I still fat? - leptin1.jpg (0/1)
On Fri, 21 May 2004 11:24:36 GMT, "Gooserider"
<gooserider@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
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>"Doug Cook" <dougconsult@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:JrudnQhuXq9gFTDdRVn-sQ@aros.net...
>> I know I asked for some thoughts, but come on, people! 170 responses in
>> 48hrs? Maybe I should have asked a less controversial question like the
>> role of religion in politics or something.
>
>Nothing controversial about it. Losing weight is NOT complicated. Fat people
>like to think it is, but it isn't. I'll say this again---if you burn more
>calories than you intake, you will lose weight. Period. The body is kinda
>neat in the way it follows the laws of physics. Yes, you can do all sorts of
>tricks, like carbohydrate reduction and such, but it all comes down to
>intake vs. output. You weigh 274 pounds, so you need to intake at least 2740
>just to maintain. Since you're riding a lot, you have to be eating a lot of
>calories somewhere. You're on the right track by monitoring what you eat,
>but make sure to keep portion control. Measure your food if you have to. If
>you eat 2700 kcal/day and exercise, you will lose weight. Just remember to
>keep yourself in calorie debt. Exercise is not an excuse to pig out, until
>you get to racer-weight. :-)
This just shows you how bone-headed gooserider is being. Check out the
issue of Time magazine (09/02/2002, pg 51) for a good graphic on the
exquisite and triple-redundant mechanisms that the body has for maintaining
its weight.
Ghrelin, alpha-protein, protein YY, brain hormone loops, large and small
intestine, leptin, insulin, and lots more. All those things adjust your
mood and your appetite to make this DRIVE, the hardest to over-ride of
almost every drive the human body has, excepting perhaps the
fight/flight/survival drive.
If you are young and have high ability to put out hGH, and other hormones,
then it will be hard to move the set-point to a higher level and gain fat
and you can eat -way- over calorie needs and still somehow burn it off.
It's a fx of the metabolism.
For those with additional -problems-, hypo or hyper thyroid, insulin
resistance, bad/damaged insulin receptors, it's a pickle.
In addition we now are beginnning to understand the 'fat cell' is not a
static storage vessel, but is active and putting out signals.
No slam on goose, b/c if he's fit and young, it -is- simple for him.
-B
I've attached a small .jpg file of a greatly simplified diagram I put
together that gives you some idea of the redundant feedback loops.
leptin1.jpg
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