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State of Mind vs Fat Cells…

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Last night, a close friend (currently plus size) with whom I lost loads of weight a few years back, asked me why we gained it all back (and the rest).   We got into a big discussion about whether your “state of mind” can overcome the urge to eat when you’ve starved yourself of carbs to the tune of  a few stone or more.  Another good friend and nutritional therapist extraordinaire Amanda Ryder explained to me, a while back, that the fat cells you have as an adult are the fat cells you have for life and I have also read that once you gain weight, those fat cells are there forever. That is a shocking fact and one not that many people know.  They might shrink when you lose weight, but they are always there in the background, just waiting for you to falter, so they can all fill up all over again and back onto that rollercoaster.

I might be getting the science wrong, if so, please excuse me @AmandaRyder_, when you’re overweight you store more of an enzyme called Lipoprotein Lipase.  Ironically when you lose excess weight, this enzyme increases in volume and its role is to encourage fat storage which definitely works against us mere mortals struggling to keep the weight off.  The way I understand it, and to put it very simply, your fat cells are calling out for energy and will leach on to anything extra that passes through the system that can be metabolised into fat…Why we gain weight

When you lose a lot of weight, your “state of mind”, can be critical to that success.  Off the wagon and back to a plus size, you might desperately search for that same “state of mind” again, and all too often, it’s impossible to regain.  Yet, your mind is so powerful when it wants to be, so why did we gain all that weight back, when we had fought so hard to lose it?   It’s great that  we can blame some of it on our physiology, but surely not all of it.  The emotional stuff is so powerful that maybe, food starvation is like emotional starvation so that when you do finally relax and take a break from diet austerity, the mind finds it impossible to revert back to its previous “starved” state. A little bit like the mind  blocking  out extremely unpleasant memories to protect you   You feel utterly desolate if you regain what you had fought so hard to lose yet, that critical “state of mind” necessary to help you become healthy , can be like the Scarlett Pimpernell, damned elusive.  I hesitate to say it, but in my experience, it can take years to find it again…

 

 

 

 


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