Has this ever happened to you? You discipline yourself to a calorie-restricted diet to lose a few pounds. You have some success, though after a few weeks you have a weight loss slow down that comes paired with growing, gnawing hunger. You end up craving and caving. Your drive to eat overcomes your better judgement and deepest dietary resolve, and eventually you plow through enough food – forbidden or otherwise – and pile all It’s not your fault.
The good news is that there is a way to nudge those numbers on the scale downward without hooking a reactive rise in appetite and rebound weight gain. Are your hormones hijacking your willpower? Leptin and ghrelin are 2 hormones (among others) that play a pivotal role in our appetite or lack of it. Put simply, ghrelin is the hormone that tells us to eat, and leptin is the hormone that tells we’ve had enough and it’s time to stop eating.…
