Not sure of the accuracy, but according to our psych book and psych prof. the human body has a set point which is your average weight that the body attempts to maintain. It's why say if you ate a few extra ounces more then you needed each day your body doesn't gain dozens of pounds over time unless there's also a major change in lifestyle. Think about how much your food intake varies and how similar most people's weight stays. It's because your body purposely limits or expends energy to maintain that set point. Apparently though once you start overeating and you get obese your set point rises, hence why it's such a battle for people to drop weight. They need to hold it off until their homeostasis or set point switches back to a normal weight.
That's just what my book says though. I call half bullshit on it though. I never found it hard to be like 'GD, I eat too much crap and don't exercise enough.' I'm not in amazing shape, but def, better then I used to be and it was no great struggle. Just a matter of being like, 'oh, yea.. don't want to die.'
That's just what my book says though. I call half bullshit on it though. I never found it hard to be like 'GD, I eat too much crap and don't exercise enough.' I'm not in amazing shape, but def, better then I used to be and it was no great struggle. Just a matter of being like, 'oh, yea.. don't want to die.'
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