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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Your body weight set point is the number on the scale your weight normally hovers around, adding or subtracting a few pounds.
Your set point is determined back at the moment of your conception. Your heredity and environment are the starting point. (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital).
The Word of God says in Psalm 139:13-15 that “you are fearfully and wonderfully made.”
Over the long term, eating excessively and exercising little will override your body’s natural tendency to stay at its set point and lead to a higher, less healthy set point.
A slow, gradual weight gain (about 20 lbs.) generally encompassing several decades will fool your body into thinking that your set point should be higher. Your body resets the set point. Then, when you try to lose weight, your body fights to defends that higher weight, making weight loss more difficult.
Just as it is possible to reset your set point higher, it is also possible to lower it. The secret is to work with, not against, your body’s natural tendencies and lose weight slowly, one silhouette at a time.
There are internal controls that govern this very complex process. There is a tiny structure deep within the brain. There are also nerves that run between the brain and stomach, and a host of hormones that all work together to make up these internal controls. However, in the long run, your behavior and how you respond to your environment will trump your Physiology (your body’s inner workings).
Scientific evidence supports the fact of losing no more than 10% of your body weight at a time is extremely important. Your body’s set point and its many regulatory hormones dictate the effectiveness of the 10% loss. This is the amount of weight you can lose before your body starts to fight back and defend its current set point. Many clinical studies have confirmed this phenomenon. Of course, we all know there are a few people who can lose more than 10% at a time, but there are very precious few who can maintain that loss.
After you maintain your new, lower weight for six months, you can repeat the cycle and reset your setpoint again by losing another 10%. Yes, of course this seems small; however, gradual changes in your daily habits can make it possible to stay at that new lower weight for the rest of your life. This prescription is vital for you to outsmart the body’s natural tendencies to regain weight.
Breaking through and resetting your setpoint requires you to learn new habits that soon become routines that lead to autopilot. This is where the miracle occurs. These habits will become just like you, second nature.
Over the next so many weeks in this course we will focus on learning how to create the habits that will make the forever change.
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