Weigh In: America and Weight

[AKA_Monet]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
Wouldn't it be best to eat breakfast when you start feeling hungry, rather than as soon as you get up. Some people may or may not be hungry when they get up. I know I am not usually hungry when I get up, but that's mostly because I usually have some sort of bedtime snack because I am a diabetic and it keeps me from having a hypoglycemic reaction in the middle of the night.

I think the research is suggesting that those who can make that distinction to eat when they are hungry rather than eat because folks say they must...

I know that it is unwise to grocery shop while one is hungry...

But that is different than eating when one is not hungry...

There are folks who have "Prader-Willi's syndrome" where food must be locked up because these folks cannot control their appetite and eat all the time. The defect can actually be measured neurologically... So these unfortunate individuals hoard food and find it impossible to turn off the ability to not be hungry...

In the weight management business, the idea to make money may not encourage folks to know when they are hungry or not... It may be an ugly secret...

But in the obesity research field, the idea to make money is to allow folks to eat whatever, whenever but never suffer the consequences...

I dunno which is worse...