[email protected] writes:
>
>Exercise won't take weight off if you are under stress. Stress
>inhibits the burning of fat for some reason, but if you keep at the
>exercise they say it will eventually do the job. I'm trying the same
>type of thing, so hang in there.
I'll vouch for stress keeping on the weight. For months after my youngest
son's death, I averaged less than 500 calories a day (some days eating
nothing for 2-3 days at a time) and didn't lose an ounce. Based on food
intake, I should have been skin and bones within six months.
Those who tell you exercise and reduction in food intake *will* result in
weight loss can only be referring to something that might approach normal
in the rest of your life. Stress initiates all sorts of things in our
bodies, many of which researchers admit they don't fully understand.
It seems logical that one's weight will maintain, rather than go back to
what it was before the stress gain, until the stress is behind you.
Glenna
Glenna Rose wrote:
> [email protected] writes:
>
>>Exercise won't take weight off if you are under stress. Stress
>>inhibits the burning of fat for some reason, but if you keep at the
>>exercise they say it will eventually do the job. I'm trying the same
>>type of thing, so hang in there.
>
>
> I'll vouch for stress keeping on the weight. For months after my youngest
> son's death, I averaged less than 500 calories a day (some days eating
> nothing for 2-3 days at a time) and didn't lose an ounce. Based on food
> intake, I should have been skin and bones within six months.
>
> Those who tell you exercise and reduction in food intake *will* result in
> weight loss can only be referring to something that might approach normal
> in the rest of your life. Stress initiates all sorts of things in our
> bodies, many of which researchers admit they don't fully understand.
>
> It seems logical that one's weight will maintain, rather than go back to
> what it was before the stress gain, until the stress is behind you.
>
> Glenna
>
Yeah, Right! Notice all those fat Jews in Nazi prison
camps. Stress kept them from losing weight, huh? Stress
may do a lot of things like cause depression, reduced
physical activity, forgetfulness, delusions, etc. but it
doesn't change the laws of physics and chemistry. One may
bloat, like you see with kids that are starving, but one
does not maintain fat or muscle when one is starving. If
you truly ate very little and didn't lose weight, then you
severely reduce physical activity and/or you became bloated
with water.
Mother's that cook the meals and never eat at the table
often can't understand why they get fatter and fatter. But
and independent observer may note the intake of 2500
calories per day in tiny sample, but that isn't a real meal,
is it?
Researcher may not understand somethings, but they know lack
of oxygen causes death (quickly), lack of water causes death
(in days) and lack of food causes death (in weeks to
months). And the time before death in all of the above is
progressively shortened with increased exercise.
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:23:11 GMT, "George E. Cawthon"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Glenna Rose wrote:
>> [email protected] writes:
>>
>>>Exercise won't take weight off if you are under stress. Stress
>>>inhibits the burning of fat for some reason, but if you keep at the
>>>exercise they say it will eventually do the job. I'm trying the same
>>>type of thing, so hang in there.
>>
>>
>> I'll vouch for stress keeping on the weight. For months after my youngest
>> son's death, I averaged less than 500 calories a day (some days eating
>> nothing for 2-3 days at a time) and didn't lose an ounce. Based on food
>> intake, I should have been skin and bones within six months.
>>
>> Those who tell you exercise and reduction in food intake *will* result in
>> weight loss can only be referring to something that might approach normal
>> in the rest of your life. Stress initiates all sorts of things in our
>> bodies, many of which researchers admit they don't fully understand.
>>
>> It seems logical that one's weight will maintain, rather than go back to
>> what it was before the stress gain, until the stress is behind you.
>>
>> Glenna
>>
>
>Yeah, Right! Notice all those fat Jews in Nazi prison
>camps. Stress kept them from losing weight, huh? Stress
>may do a lot of things like cause depression, reduced
>physical activity, forgetfulness, delusions, etc. but it
>doesn't change the laws of physics and chemistry. One may
>bloat, like you see with kids that are starving, but one
>does not maintain fat or muscle when one is starving. If
>you truly ate very little and didn't lose weight, then you
>severely reduce physical activity and/or you became bloated
>with water.
No one is talking about starvation, which is something quite
different. Stress inhibits the thingys in your fat cells that allow
them to release fat into the bloodstream when it is needed by the
muscles. That is one of the reasons why stress makes you tired - your
body is storing energy rather than using it. Obviously if you cut your
calorie intake down for an extended period of time you will lose
weight eventually, but the biochemists tell us that you can cut *way*
back on calories and still gain weight if you aren't burning fat.
Exercise helps reduce stress and also increases the body's ability to
burn fat, so it is a two way win, but it takes a lot of it over a long
period of time before the benefits start to show up. We are talking an
hour of steady walking several days a week for a month or more before
the benefits really begin.
As to starvation, any sudden drop in your body's calorie intake will
trigger a retention reaction. Fasting for 2 days a week will almost
always cause you to gain weight, even if your total weekly calorie
intake is reduced. I don't think that gradual reductions in quantity
(or even just a reduction from way too much to an ok amount) will
cause that reaction.
>Researcher may not understand somethings, but they know lack
>of oxygen causes death (quickly), lack of water causes death
>(in days) and lack of food causes death (in weeks to
>months). And the time before death in all of the above is
>progressively shortened with increased exercise.
So your point is?
Tim Douglass
http://www.DouglassClan.com