No. It’s all based on metabolism. Some people have a faster acting metabolism and others have a slower acting one. As far as preventing you from gaining too much weight goes, you’re body and muscles contain memory. If you used to work out and stop again, it’s a lot easier to gain muscle back because your body remembers. The same goes for weight; your body knows what your regular body weight is so if you eat a little too much here and there, then you aren’t going to blow up like you would if you ate too much on a regular basis.
I don’t know about the protection system in the body; I’ve never heard of it, but I have heard of optimum body weight, or something like that.
This theory says that going by those weight charts in doctor’s offices is not really appropriate because everyone has a natural body weight that the body will try to maintain and it might be higher or lower than what any chart indicates.
This is why some people trying to lose weight might find it almost impossible to drop the last 10-20 lbs. they want to and people needing to gain weight don’t, no matter what they eat. I fall into the second category.
When I first heard of it YEARS ago, back when I was in nursing school, they referred to it as a “set point”. I did a paper then for nutrition on ths subject. Our bodies have these set weights they try to hold. However we humans can take away this health/safety mechanism.
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Yes, it does but we in our foolishness by eating too much and too often resent the buffer to higher level and become fat.
No. It’s all based on metabolism. Some people have a faster acting metabolism and others have a slower acting one. As far as preventing you from gaining too much weight goes, you’re body and muscles contain memory. If you used to work out and stop again, it’s a lot easier to gain muscle back because your body remembers. The same goes for weight; your body knows what your regular body weight is so if you eat a little too much here and there, then you aren’t going to blow up like you would if you ate too much on a regular basis.
I don’t know about the protection system in the body; I’ve never heard of it, but I have heard of optimum body weight, or something like that.
This theory says that going by those weight charts in doctor’s offices is not really appropriate because everyone has a natural body weight that the body will try to maintain and it might be higher or lower than what any chart indicates.
This is why some people trying to lose weight might find it almost impossible to drop the last 10-20 lbs. they want to and people needing to gain weight don’t, no matter what they eat. I fall into the second category.
IS THIS TRUE? YES!!
When I first heard of it YEARS ago, back when I was in nursing school, they referred to it as a “set point”. I did a paper then for nutrition on ths subject. Our bodies have these set weights they try to hold. However we humans can take away this health/safety mechanism.