Why can't you always control your appetite?

Many friends who have this kind of trouble may have the problem of being overweight, because they can't control what they eat when they see it, and they especially want to eat when they can't see it. The reason why you have this problem is because of the vicious hunger mentioned in the article. What is malignant hunger?

Eating can also be addictive-malignant hunger

If you are overweight, you may have a food addiction problem. You eat because your body feels like it needs food, not because your body really needs to replenish calories. Addiction is physical and psychological dependence on a substance or behavior. At first, this substance or behavior can satisfy a person; But then the demand will increase, and in order to avoid discomfort or pain, it becomes compulsive behavior. Food addiction is very complicated, involving the stimulation of digestive organs, leading to the secretion of bile, enzymes and hormones, as well as the removal of waste in liver, kidney and blood stream. Food addiction is also closely related to dopamine in the brain.

Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter, and one of its functions is to regulate the production and feeling of pleasure. No matter what kind of addiction, the brain reacts the same. High calories, such as sugar and oil, can make the dopamine concentration of food addicts soar as much as that of people who abuse illegal drugs.

Researchers at Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, recently found that a diet containing a lot of refined carbohydrates has the same effect on the brain as drug addiction. Every subject's nucleus accumbens (the area of the brain related to addiction) will have intense activity.

The brain regions are connected in series, which will combine specific brain patterns with the pleasant release of dopamine to ensure that we will repeat the behaviors that make us happy. The brain will record an action that pleases us as a beneficial pattern, which needs to be memorized and repeated automatically. Therefore, when addicts light cigarettes and food addicts open a bag of potato chips, they do not hesitate and completely ignore the long-term risks.

Smokers will become tolerant of nicotine, gluttonous people will become more tolerant of sugar, salt and fat, and the pleasure of eating high-calorie foods will also decrease. A recent study in Nature Neuroscience shows that drug addiction and forced diet can reduce the sensitivity of brain reward circuits.

This means that in order to feel the pleasure brought by drugs or diet, the intake must be higher and higher. In the brain, eating behavior is driven by pleasure and reward signals, but now the brain needs more stimulation (high-calorie, sweet food) or eating a lot to maintain the signal intensity. If the intensity is insufficient, it will cause physical and emotional discomfort.

Most overweight people know that this is unhealthy. Relatives, friends and doctors must have advised them to lose weight, but they just couldn't. They tried dieting again and again, but they couldn't stick to it. Why is this happening? Why do they keep eating?

The answer is: malignant hunger.

When our staple food is high in calories and lacks sufficient protective nutrients, cells will be blocked by various wastes, such as free radicals and advanced glycation end products (AGEs), which is called "oxidative stress" as a whole. Oxidative stress can lead to inflammation, cell damage and premature cell death. Usually, oxidative stress will be accompanied by the accumulation of toxic metabolites, causing various withdrawal symptoms between meals. I call this withdrawal symptom "malignant hunger".

Symptoms of Malignant Hunger If you have the following symptoms, it is malignant hunger: symptoms 1/ weakness. Symptom 2/ Fatigue. Symptom 3/ Dizziness. Symptom 4/ Headache. Symptom 5/ Stomach spasm.

Self-test for food addiction 1. If you don't eat often, you will feel tired or irritable. Yes or no, I want to eat something almost at any time. Yes or no. I will feel weak or uncomfortable after eating. Yes or no, I didn't eat well, which affected my health. Yes or no. I am overweight and continue to overeat. Yes or no. I can't stop eating sweets. Yes or no. I tried to lose weight by dieting, but failed, so I gave up. Yes or no 8. I prefer to go to restaurants with enough food. Yes or no 9. My body will have withdrawal symptoms. Yes or no 10. I steal food when no one is around. Yes or no 1 1. I will hide the food from my family. Yes or no 12. Even if I am not hungry, I will continue to eat. Yes or no 13. My diet makes me depressed. Yes or no 14. My eating habits lead to problems in my social or family relations. Yes or no 15. I have been eating almost all day. Yes or no, as long as there is a "yes" in the answer, you have the doubt of food addiction. More than two "yes", you can definitely have food addiction.

What is abstinence?

Discomfort caused by stopping using addictive substances is called "withdrawal", which is a very important sign, meaning that after a substance is removed, the body begins to detoxify or recover from chemotherapy. When the body eliminates harmful substances, it will definitely cause discomfort. Detoxification effect is better when digestion stops.

Once digestion is over, people usually feel sick, tired or have a headache. Most people think that these little discomforts are hunger. At this time, if you eat it, you will restart digestion, interrupt the detoxification process, and let the uncomfortable feeling disappear. Let me explain.

Digestive cycle has two stages: assimilation and anabolism. In the assimilation (or accumulation) stage, eating, chewing, digesting and absorbing nutrients will slow down or stop the detoxification process; Detoxification is most effective when the body does not need to actively digest food. Once digestion stops and the body enters the stage of alienation, detoxification begins immediately.

So people will feel the symptoms of detoxification and interpret it as hunger. They think they must eat again, even though their bodies are actually full of calories. They can keep eating, so that the body has no time to dissimilate, or eat high-calorie meals and animal products, so that the digestion (assimilation) process lasts until the next meal.

There is an important difference between real hunger and malignant hunger. Real hunger is that the body has consumed almost all the calories stored in the last meal and can replenish energy, but malignant hunger occurs when the body begins to eliminate dangerous toxins. We will immediately feel uncomfortable and think that we must eat high-calorie things to relieve it. This will lead to overeating and make you want to eat more calories than your body needs.

Correct dietary concept

I'm not asking you to go on a diet, but I want you to change your basic beliefs about food. However, the more you seek quick relief, the more you hinder the process of detoxification or cure. The feeling of discomfort usually means that the repair process is going on and toxins are being excreted, but we mistake these symptoms for real hunger, so we make the mistake of overeating often and try to relieve discomfort, but it leads to an increase in the number of scales, making ourselves sick and falling into a vicious circle of food addiction.

Getting rid of bad habits at first will always make you feel worse, not better. For example, when making a healthy diet, the first three to five days are the most uncomfortable, which is also the reason why all diet control methods fail. No matter what diet control method, people should eat less, but eating less will lead to physical or emotional discomfort.

The only way to eat less comfortably is to help the body eat less food, which requires us to get rid of vicious hunger first. Adequate micronutrients are essential to avoid the accumulation of toxins in cells and lead to malignant hunger. If you want to reach your ideal weight comfortably, you must adopt a healthier and more comprehensive diet containing micronutrients.

Choosing what to eat is only a good opportunity to control how the brain works, and it is also a good opportunity to master physical and mental health and health for the rest of your life. The key is to get all parts of the brain to agree on a healthy diet, because some of you may not be willing to obey. Once you understand that an unhealthy diet will kidnap your brain, you will hopefully win back your health and regain your lightness.