I have been in Weight Watchers several times over the past decade.
Weight Watchers makes it a point to suggest that eating habits be changed on a regular basis. They argue that a steady diet of any particular food will stop weight loss because the body accommodates to the regular food.
I don't take suggestions like this to heart until I figured out the evidence or logic behind it.
Finally I figured that one out. It has one element of caution to note.
About half of what we eat is digested by our saliva and our stomach gastric juices. Our stomach muscle takes more than an hour before releasing the partially digested food into the intestines.
The intestines have several hundred different species of (light-free) micro organisms made up of several dozen families. These microorganisms process the food sufficiently to be absorbed through the walls of the intestine into the bloodstream.
When we eat the same food on a regular continual basis we increase the number and proportion of microorganisms that specifically digest that food. Consequently, more of that regular food is absorbed by the body. By changing food regularly and constantly the highly specialized microorganisms do not get a chance to overpopulate. The amount of digestion and blood absorption is decreased. The amount of waste is increased.
The one caveat for this observation is that highly complex proteins that are found in meat are largely broken down in the stomach and to a lesser extent by the gut Flora/fauna. Changing meats doesn’t help much with weight loss.
So when you're changing food to increase your weight loss, feel free to eat weird. Eat foods your digestive tract has never seen before.
Weight Watchers makes it a point to suggest that eating habits be changed on a regular basis. They argue that a steady diet of any particular food will stop weight loss because the body accommodates to the regular food.
I don't take suggestions like this to heart until I figured out the evidence or logic behind it.
Finally I figured that one out. It has one element of caution to note.
About half of what we eat is digested by our saliva and our stomach gastric juices. Our stomach muscle takes more than an hour before releasing the partially digested food into the intestines.
The intestines have several hundred different species of (light-free) micro organisms made up of several dozen families. These microorganisms process the food sufficiently to be absorbed through the walls of the intestine into the bloodstream.
When we eat the same food on a regular continual basis we increase the number and proportion of microorganisms that specifically digest that food. Consequently, more of that regular food is absorbed by the body. By changing food regularly and constantly the highly specialized microorganisms do not get a chance to overpopulate. The amount of digestion and blood absorption is decreased. The amount of waste is increased.
The one caveat for this observation is that highly complex proteins that are found in meat are largely broken down in the stomach and to a lesser extent by the gut Flora/fauna. Changing meats doesn’t help much with weight loss.
So when you're changing food to increase your weight loss, feel free to eat weird. Eat foods your digestive tract has never seen before.