Posted by Racer on August 6, 2004, at 12:32:55
In reply to Re: Stress Hormone Cortisol, posted by twinmom on August 5, 2004, at 10:35:17
Despite what your doctor told you, you might want to dump those diet drinks, too. The latest research I've read theorizes that the diet drinks upset your body's hunger-related hormones, thus upping your weight gain. It's too much for me to get into now, because I'm just not here right now, but the diet drinks interfere with the normal rhythms of your hunger reflexes, keeping you hungry round the clock. If you can get yourself to drinking water instead, you're likely to reset your hunger mechanisms. If you can't make yourself drink plain water, a little lemon juice in it may help. (That's what I used to do, although now I just down the stuff straight.) And you can buy those cute little plastic lemons with lemon juice in them.
It's got to do with leptin, I think, which has diurnal surges. "Normal" surges take place in the middle of the night, when you're asleep. In people who drink a lot of diet drinks, and in the overweight, it stays at a pretty steady state throughout the day. Cutting off that particular pathway by avoiding the diet drinks may help more than you think it will.
By the way, I'm not going to tell you that it's easy. I drank more of the stuff than I"m willing to admit for about 25 years. It's only in the last few months that I've finally cut way back. And I still drink two or three per day.
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