The Weight Story

Come and learn in detail about your Weight Story, along with these 3 most important ‘characters’ that play around with your Appetite System:

1) The Engineer (Hypothalamus)

2) The Hippie (Amygdala)

3) The Tired Boss (Frontal Cortex)

These characters are inspired by Dr. Macklin’s ‘The Core Story’, in which he describes them as: Gate-keepr, Go-getter, and the Sleepy Executive.

Let’s look at this graph:

A person living with Obesity, they are 250lbs (no importance of cause)
Emphasis 4 things:
1) bad hormones go up (increase ghrelin – more hungry)
lowers good hormones (leptin, etc)
2) decrease resting BMR so we don’t burn as much, we slow down, feel tired and lazy
3) the above 2 things increase our hunger, we want high-calorie dense food to replace what we have lost
4) the body becomes fuel efficient, start to live with small number of calories (gain even more)

With these forces (1-4) working against our weight loss efforts, a point will come after a few days, or weeks, where we give up. This is not the problem with our willpower, this is our body causing you to do that, because it is not in your control. Therefore, the body weight comes back to baseline, and you regain the weight you have lost. It does not stop there, it re-gains even more weight

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