Summary: Why Feast And Famine Might Not Be Working<br> <br> ****definition of a diet “working:” ability to lose weight and then maintain that weight loss. So in this instance will people be able to lose weight using this theory AND then maintain it.<br> <br> The quick and dirty if you don’t have time:<br> <br> To quote Dr. Jason Fung’s website, “Eating is a celebration of life. Any diet that does not acknowledge this fact is doomed to failure.”<br> <br> These two sentence he argues support his theory, I would actually argue are the downfall of his theory.<br> <br> My rebuttal would be any diet that does not acknowledge the potential for food addiction, binge eating disorder, and or hedonic obesity is "doomed for failure” to use the above quote.<br> A.) Food “Addiction”<br> The thing is for people who been exposed to “adiposity” maintaining the sense of food as a reward is quite often dangerous. This sort of mentality can maladaptively accidentally place food up on some pedestal, when really food should “just be food.” Especially with those out there who know, but may not want to admit that food, and more likely carbs, are addictive.<br> <br> Currently, we have not technically “proven” food is addictive in humans, but we are finding it more and more true in mice. Unfortunately we may never be able to actually prove it in humans, as the dirty truth is we can’t do trials on humans as we can on tiny little animals, who take up a small amount of space, eat a relatively small amount of food, who then can be sacrificed to an autopsy at the end of the the study. So we likely are going to more just go on, and lean towards an educated guess that food, especially hyper caloric carbohydrate food is addictive. And if you still can’t get yourself to say it, if you are a, “but how can food be addictive, we need it to live,” at the very minimum you could maybe admit that some food has addictive qualities.<br> <br> The question is will you really be able to fast the next day, I mean really? With food still be around everywhere, will you be able to? It may not just be in your house, but it still is likely within about 5 mixtures of your house. Will you be able to just cold turkey say no to food, especially after you just showered you brain with all kinds of “feel” good hormones released from being exposed to those “celebration foods” you just feasted on? Some might say yes, I can totally do it. Others, I am betting if you think about it, really sit and be honest with yourself, the answer is likely going to be “no.” One thing I love to point out is to think to yourself, “will one night’s sleep change me as a person.” Will sleeping with this belly full of food really stop me from eating tomorrow?” Haven’t I gone to bed with a full belly in the past? Did I wake up the next morning not hungry? Or have I ever noticed the more I eat the more I become hungry?<br> <br> Interesting studies I will interject here:<br> <br> Basically, in this study obese and non obese participants where allowed to eat at a buffet, no meal before. Then they came back to the same buffet, on another day, but this time they were all given a chocolate shake to drink before the buffet. The non obese people ate less, the obese people ate more!<br> <br> [Finding study link…my bookmarks where erased!!!! :( ]<br> <br> Others:<br> <br> Brain Cogn. 2016 Dec;110:53-63. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2015.08.006. Epub 2015 Oct 1.<br> <br> Eating with our eyes: From visual hunger to digital satiation. Spence C1, Okajima K2, Cheok AD3, Petit O4, Michel C5.<br> <br> “In the fasting state, obese individuals demonstrated increased neural activation in those areas that are known to be associated with the anticipation of reward.”<br> <br> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1864961/<br> <br> <br> <br> Effects of binge eating on satiation, satiety,
