Re: When Hunger Strikes and You Have Eaten Your Calorie Allotment

In my experience Luella, calorie counting has been promulgated by weightwatchers clubs who are very good at extracting money from your wallet; the real secret to abate genuine hunger is to appease the appestat: an organ within the Brain that controls appetite or the demand for food.

If the body is satisfied nutritionally at the cellular level, this switches this organ off and suppresses appetite/hunger, but if we eat foods that are not nutritionally-dense, then this switches the appestat back on, because the body is left nutritionally empty. This can result in a constant state of hunger: the reason we overeat and therefore gain weight.

Low calorie but nutrient-dense foods will easily satisfy hunger, but how do we know we are eating too many or too few calories? by keeping an eye on ones weight: if you gain weight you are eating too many calories, but if you lose weight, you are eating too few. Simple.

Chrisb1.