Quick Health Tip - Weight Management and Physiological Challenges

Proper weight management principles become a behavior. And at first, it is not easy to master, and that is the first step in truly mastering your fitness and weight goals. So, before going into the detail of the material, just know you are not alone. Challenges that we face every day are social, economic, physiological, and psychological factors. 

Physiological factors can be mostly contributed to our brain, more specific our hypothalamus. This stimulates the hunger mechanism, which is a sensation that leads us to eat. The hunger mechanism is not as efficient as we want it to be, and the response of satiety is delayed. This variability is what can lead to overconsumption, because by the time the signal has been sent of satiety, you would have reached the next level of “stuffed”. There are ways to make the signals more efficient and that is regularly consuming smaller portions of food through the day. This reduces the hunger mechanism, maintains glucose levels steady, and the signals of satiety would more properly reflect the consumption of food.