Fascinating stuff on the apetite suppression after returning home. The 4kg drop in three days while mostly eating rye bread is wild - that homeostatic rebound effect where the body suddenly "notices" being overweight is intriguing. I've seen similar appetite swings when switching contexts drastically, but nothing that dramatic. The PUFA storage theory explaining why fixes take so long makes intuitive sence given how body fat turns over slowly.
I was expecting it! I think that must be how ex150-type things or the potato hack work. The lack of excess protein somehow fixes the broken homeostat.
Whenever I go home Mum drowns me in protein and I become ravenous for a while and rapidly gain a spectacular amount of weight. And whenever I come back I'm not hungry for a while and lose weight 'by magic'.
But whenever I've tried to use that idea directly by just eating low-protein it hasn't done anything much. So there's something more complicated going on. Just low protein doesn't seem to do the same thing as ex150ish.
I don't think it's so weird that your other symptoms vs your body weight is going at different speeds. They're just different mechanisms gummed up by the same thing, it'd be totally expected that they behave differently, on different timelines.
It wouldn't have to be perfectly symmetrical either, could be that it took much longer to break the obesity part in your particular body, and now it'll take much longer to undo it, vs. getting the other symptoms much faster and losing them much faster again.
Fascinating stuff on the apetite suppression after returning home. The 4kg drop in three days while mostly eating rye bread is wild - that homeostatic rebound effect where the body suddenly "notices" being overweight is intriguing. I've seen similar appetite swings when switching contexts drastically, but nothing that dramatic. The PUFA storage theory explaining why fixes take so long makes intuitive sence given how body fat turns over slowly.
I was expecting it! I think that must be how ex150-type things or the potato hack work. The lack of excess protein somehow fixes the broken homeostat.
Whenever I go home Mum drowns me in protein and I become ravenous for a while and rapidly gain a spectacular amount of weight. And whenever I come back I'm not hungry for a while and lose weight 'by magic'.
But whenever I've tried to use that idea directly by just eating low-protein it hasn't done anything much. So there's something more complicated going on. Just low protein doesn't seem to do the same thing as ex150ish.
I don't think it's so weird that your other symptoms vs your body weight is going at different speeds. They're just different mechanisms gummed up by the same thing, it'd be totally expected that they behave differently, on different timelines.
It wouldn't have to be perfectly symmetrical either, could be that it took much longer to break the obesity part in your particular body, and now it'll take much longer to undo it, vs. getting the other symptoms much faster and losing them much faster again.
Yes, I think you're straightforwardly right here. I can think of various mechanisms that would produce that sort of effect. I stand corrected. Thanks!