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As we all know oveweight people ( like myself) have huge reserves of stored energy.
I assume we tap into that energy when we eat in a caloric deficit. Why do people get hungry if we are using our own energy reserves?
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Does obesity cause excessive hunger or does excessive hunger cause obesity?Almost everyone is going to get hungry through out the day. Those who are skinny still have plenty of body fat to survive off for weeks yet they get hungry a few times a day. The body is not going to only turn on hunger signals when you are close to death but will try to maintain current energy balance regardless if you are well overweight or not.
Issue is those who are overweight and obese already have excessive hunger due to issues in the brain's ability to make you feel satiated so hunger is amplified when they need to lose weight and even when they are not losing weight (they have stronger hunger normally).
As we all know oveweight people ( like myself) have huge reserves of stored energy.
Does obesity cause excessive hunger or does excessive hunger cause obesity?
It also has to do with leptin resistance, which causes excessive appetite.I can not remember where I've exactly seen the following. Hence, if someone manages to recall the exact link. Please post this.
It is because of elevated insulin levels. Which, is a storage hormone. This means that the energy, hence as the term storage hormone implies, is not burned or used to fuel metabolic processes. For instance if the energy required for metabolic function is say 2500 calories. If from these 2500 calories, 500 calories are stored the body still senses a defecit of 500.
Fuel for thought.
Excess hunger can be due to boredom, stress, low vit D, low protein intake, poor sleep, micronutrient deficiencies, etc.
Possibly. Food can increase dopamine and the lack of exploration and doing something exciting lowers dopamine. So food can help to compensate for that.I definitely agree. Especially on the boredom (low dopamine?), that's how I got overweight.
Hunger signals are healthy. The elderly and sick don’t get hungry. Obese people become obese due to shitty advice and unscientific reasons that are offered in this thread. it probably compounds over generations. They are metabolically efficient and can easily store fat because they starve themselves on and off due to what the cult of scientism and online gymcels that eat 1500 calories a day preach. i wonder if Ray Peat has figured this common sense out yet.
Excessive hunger which promotes overeating and thus obesity and many other metabolic problems is not healthy and indicates an underlying problem. There is plenty of real science behind it and ways to reduce excessive hunger.
Not everyone who is overweight/obese has excessive hunger or excessive calorie intake. In fact, the opposite can be true in many cases. Someone close to me, for example, has never been a big eater and has always eaten less calories than she should. Yet, she has been overweight, close to obese but not quite, for the past 10 years. This happens when low metabolic rate and higher than normal insulin makes them store most of the calories they eat, instead of using them for energy, hence the constant fatigue and depression.