During weight loss, what is the most difficult thing to achieve? Most people’s answer is: to control their eating.
Weight loss means controlling daily calorie intake to create a caloric deficit in the body. However, many people find that after a period of dietary control, their appetite becomes increasingly robust, leading to easy overeating, which nullifies their weight loss efforts.
If you can utilize the appetite hormone GLP-1 in your body, it will be the key to your weight loss success.
What is the hormone GLP-1? It functions like a weight loss drug, suppressing your appetite to achieve weight loss effects. So, how does this hormone GLP-1 work?
GLP-1 manages your appetite. When you eat, GLP-1 is secreted in abundance, and as blood sugar rises, it guides the pancreas to secrete insulin to lower blood sugar, thus maintaining weight and blood sugar balance.
Additionally, GLP-1 instructs the stomach to slow down the absorption of food, reducing your desire to eat, allowing the brain to receive signals of fullness, and prompting you to stop eating.
This is a flexible appetite feedback mechanism in the body designed to help you maintain a normal weight and blood sugar level, preventing overeating that leads to weight gain or undereating that causes weight loss.
So, why are many people overweight and exceeding their ideal weight? It may be that your GLP-1 sensitivity has decreased, resulting in reduced secretion.
Nowadays, people prefer eating various fried foods and processed sweets, leading to insufficient intake of dietary fiber and vitamins, and unknowingly exceeding calorie intake, which also decreases GLP-1 sensitivity.
While others feel full after eating a bowl of rice, you may need two or three bowls. Others can feel satisfied after a little food, while your stomach starts rumbling just after two or three hours.
This indicates that your GLP-1 secretion has malfunctioned and is no longer functioning properly, preventing you from receiving satiety signals. Without feeling full, you continually eat, leading to an expansion of stomach capacity and increasing weight, along with various problems like high blood lipids and high blood sugar.
Only by managing your appetite can you control calorie intake and gradually reduce your size to achieve a healthy weight.
However, once you enter weight loss mode and start eating less, your body senses hunger, causing your appetite to expand, making it difficult to control your intake.
To lose weight in a scientific and healthy manner, it’s not simply about not eating; it’s about consuming the right foods to control calorie intake while combating appetite, allowing for healthy weight loss.
