Natural appetite regulation

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #21

Carl, I did squirrel rehab for a few years and I wanted to know everything! I

(Carl Keller) #22

I recall a thread with a pic or two of your squirrels. I admire your dedication and desire to help them. :slight_smile:

I do love animals and studied all types just because they interest me but you will have to forgive my aversion for squirrels… ever since one of them raided my curing sunflower heads from my back porch. I had hundreds of seeds stolen from me and nary a seed was left behind…

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #23

I get it, but this is how I look at it: you planted food in their house, sort of. I mean, if a squirrel left bacon sitting on my kitchen table, I’d eat it. I don’t hate deer, but we can’t have anything nice because they eat everything, even the flowers and certainly our veggies.

(Carl Keller) #24

That’s fair. But I would not have thought you would eat a squirrel. :smiley:

When my mother was younger she was an avid gardner. She made cages out of chicken wire that she domed over her vegetables to keep the deer and rabbits from eating her veggies. They worked brilliantly.

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #25

Hardy har har!

(Running from stupidity) #26

You’re not from The South, are you?

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #27

Why are you capitalizing it?

(Carl Keller) #28

I lived half my life in the South and the last half in the North. The outdoor stuff is better down south but the money is better up north.

(Running from stupidity) #29

To denote that it’s A THING. THE SOUTH :slight_smile:

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #30

:rofl::rofl::rofl: Okay, okay. You’re right, it’s a THING.

(Running from stupidity) #31

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yes I’m out of likes again. stupid software

(Allie) #32

Have you tried going with what it’s telling you now?

#33

Yes that’s true. Maybe I’m just trying to invent a problem when there isn’t one. That’s been done before.

So I’m not panicking about it eating levels. I’m losing weight, soon I reckon I’ll reach my target weight, unless I stall …

My big concern is - joint pain.

I’m thinking I have, or have had, a leaky gut and now my immune system has taken aim part of my body which I’d like to keep in tact. No clue what the trigger is …

#34

Yes, I’ve tried going with what I think it’s tell me.

But it’s like I’m getting 3 different signals.

The first signal is - “hey I don’t feel hungry, can’t be bothered eating”, “I’ll eat later”. This leads me to two meals a day. I’m not hungry and not stuffed. Seems pretty so so.

Or I can keep jamming food down my pie hole until I get the feeling of “I just cannot eat one more bite”? Full blown satiety right?

Or I can guesstimate when I’m 80% full, stop there and wait 20 minutes until the satiety signal gets a chance to work properly.

I’m thinking this last option is the best one. But I’m going with the first at the moment because I’m interested in weight loss.

(Running from stupidity) #35

ME. ALL THE TIME.

Agreed, because you can easily eat more if required…

But I’m going with the first at the moment because I’m interested in weight loss.

If only it was a linear relationship…

(Scott) #36

This was the line in the magic pill that really got my attention. It was the best channel surfing mistake I ever made.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #37

Busted!:sunglasses:

(Carl Keller) #38

This is what I shoot for. I’m getting much better at sensing when I’m 7-8 bites short of full. What seems to help is taking my time when eating and not putting away a plateful of food in under 4 minutes like I used to.

I always tell myself this but I never end up eating more. I’m still trying to recognize when I’ve satisfied leptin and am not just feeding my taste buds. Lately it seems more often than not that it’s the latter.

I’ve owned dogs that were like for sure but I might argue that bears will gorge themselves and put on fat in preparation for the winter and snakes will literally eat animals that double their weight. Of course those overeaters are biologically prepared to deal with the aftermath.

#39

Honestly I think the only thing keeping most other animals from overeating is the food chain in action. If, like humans, they removed themselves from capital N “Nature”, and they were fed things outside of the diet they evolved to eat, things that triggered a binge, most would get fat too. I know technically we did this to ourselves, but it originated from a place of ignorance, subsists on ego and capital, not from humans just being too fat and stupid to know when to stop eating, unlike wise animals.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #40

Or maybe we are just too smart hedonistic animals who unsmartly choose things that tasted good over what was good for us. The rest is cultural and family traditions passed on and the food manufacturing corporations made it “more convenient to acquire those traditional foods with all the wonderful flavor additives, preservatives, pretty colors and artificial scents to give us uncontrollable urges to eat until gorged”. :face_with_monocle::slightly_frowning_face::tired_face::face_with_symbols_over_mouth: