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muffintop-less: “In the moments before people begin to binge eat, they often feel some kind of negative emotion – from sadness to anxiety to loneliness. Does binge eating make them feel better? Why do some people have an urge to eat when they’re down while others don’t? New research released online this month investigates how the brain reacts to food when people with bulimia are experiencing negative emotion. Researchers at UCLA gathered data on a small group of women with and without Bulimia Nervosa. They showed the women pictures of a chocolate milkshake or water and gave them tastes of both, all the while examining images of their brain using an fMRI. Women with bulimia nervosa who reported experiencing negative emotion just before the experiment exhibited greater neural activation in their brains (putamen, caudate, and palladium) in anticipation of the milkshake. In other words, when a bulimic woman is sad, for example, her brain reacts strongly to the thought of drinking a milkshake. The specific parts of the brain that were activated are associated with our “reward circuitry.” The authors suggest that a bulimic person’s brain may become conditioned to make a strong connection between experiencing a negative emotion and having a craving to binge. This means that, for women with bulimia, simply feeling sad can trigger the brain to crave food. However, the brain did not react in the same way when these women actually tasted the milkshake, only when they saw the picture of it and anticipated drinking it. The authors suggest that this might help explain why it’s so hard for people with bulimia to resist temptation when they’re feeling down (e.g. staying away from a fast food restaurant with tempting signs). And at the same time, they aren’t satisfied with a few tastes and end up binging in an effort to feel as good as they had hoped at the first sight of the food. The study is one of the first to examine images of the brain in women with bulimia. As a result, it’s a preliminary finding – the sample was small and nobody actually engaged in binge eating during the experiment. Nevertheless, the study sheds light on how neural activity in the brain is related to why people may crave food when they’re feeling down, be unsatisfied by the first few tastes, and end up binge eating.” By Sumati Gupta, PhD.

muffintop-less:

“In the moments before people begin to binge eat, they often feel some kind of negative emotion – from sadness to anxiety to loneliness. Does binge eating make them feel better? Why do some people have an urge to eat when they’re down while others don’t? New research released online this month investigates how the brain reacts to food when people with bulimia are experiencing negative emotion.

Researchers at UCLA gathered data on a small group of women with and without Bulimia Nervosa. They showed the women pictures of a chocolate milkshake or water and gave them tastes of both, all the while examining images of their brain using an fMRI. Women with bulimia nervosa who reported experiencing negative emotion just before the experiment exhibited greater neural activation in their brains (putamen, caudate, and palladium) in anticipation of the milkshake. In other words, when a bulimic woman is sad, for example, her brain reacts strongly to the thought of drinking a milkshake. The specific parts of the brain that were activated are associated with our “reward circuitry.”

The authors suggest that a bulimic person’s brain may become conditioned to make a strong connection between experiencing a negative emotion and having a craving to binge. This means that, for women with bulimia, simply feeling sad can trigger the brain to crave food. However, the brain did not react in the same way when these women actually tasted the milkshake, only when they saw the picture of it and anticipated drinking it.

The authors suggest that this might help explain why it’s so hard for people with bulimia to resist temptation when they’re feeling down (e.g. staying away from a fast food restaurant with tempting signs). And at the same time, they aren’t satisfied with a few tastes and end up binging in an effort to feel as good as they had hoped at the first sight of the food. The study is one of the first to examine images of the brain in women with bulimia.

As a result, it’s a preliminary finding – the sample was small and nobody actually engaged in binge eating during the experiment. Nevertheless, the study sheds light on how neural activity in the brain is related to why people may crave food when they’re feeling down, be unsatisfied by the first few tastes, and end up binge eating.”

By Sumati Gupta, PhD.

(via everythingweightloss)

earthboundchild: aimfor63: fitgurls-doitbetter: This is insane Italy with its pasta and it’s pizza and it’s ice-cream, damn will power of Australians! haha my theory on japan is that there is so many of them fitting into such a small country if they had our percentage of obesity they would be bursting at the seams!!! COMMON SENSE PEOPLE

earthboundchild:

aimfor63:

fitgurls-doitbetter:

This is insane

Italy with its pasta and it’s pizza and it’s ice-cream, damn will power of Australians!

haha my theory on japan is that there is so many of them fitting into such a small country if they had our percentage of obesity they would be bursting at the seams!!!

COMMON SENSE PEOPLE

hi guys

im sorry i havnt been around much lately… life has been full on. im dealing with a lot of things at the moment including an eating disorder.

please for the love of god never ever get started with an ED. it is so so hard to turn around. in the space of just weeks i have become a person that i dont recognise.

this blog is for inspiration on being healthy, im going to use it as my own inspiration as well. your love and support would mean a lot to me.

good luck everyone, hopefully ill be around more in the near future.

<3

easter

was pretty crazy… i partied like there was no tomorrow.

3 nights in a row… 9 hours sleep in total… a ridiculous amount of alcohol.

i feel gross. im pretty sure i embarrassed myself something chronic quite a few times.

this is why i dont drink anymore!!! argh. and havnt been to the gym in so so long.

rant over.

tomorrow i will be back on track. i had my week of exercise and my weekend off responsibility. time to get my focus back!

how did everyone else go?

i'm done with dreams: GREEN TEA

mydreamsdied:

1. It is believed to have polyphenols in it, which helps it burn the calories and maintaining the heat of the body.
2. Its leaves contain EGCG which helps the body to fight the cancer cells and does not allow them to enter the body.
3. It also minimizes the risk of strokes in the body.
4. Green…

maraythonrunner: cleaningout: So on Friday I took a picture of my scale every few hours. Why? To show what the scale may be telling you when you step on it. The scale weighs everything and nothing at the same time. It can tell you how much your fat, muscle, organs, blood, hair, nails, etc. weigh at that given point and time. It also tells you what you’re wearing, how much product is in your hair, if you’re retaining water, that you ate last night and it’s somewhere in your GI, that you may have had some water in the last few hours, etc. The scale weighs nothing. This changing number throughout the day doesn’t tell me how much I can squat, how far or fast I run, what my grades are, how well my clothes fit, if I’m a genuinely good person. My scale knows nothing about me. Everyone fluctuates weight daily. I was as high as 141 and as low as 137 all within less than 24 hours. If we fluctuate this much during the day, imagine how much we fluctuate day to day? Weigh yourself every day and see that after a few days of “good eating” you’re up a few pounds? Is it really fat? Is it really ANYTHING? No. Don’t let the scale tell your story - it’s a liar. I really like that someone did this. It’s hard to explain this to people when they’re weighing themselves on a daily basis and here it is plain as day. The scale doesn’t tell you what you think it does.

maraythonrunner:

cleaningout:

So on Friday I took a picture of my scale every few hours. Why? To show what the scale may be telling you when you step on it.

The scale weighs everything and nothing at the same time. It can tell you how much your fat, muscle, organs, blood, hair, nails, etc. weigh at that given point and time. It also tells you what you’re wearing, how much product is in your hair, if you’re retaining water, that you ate last night and it’s somewhere in your GI, that you may have had some water in the last few hours, etc.

The scale weighs nothing. This changing number throughout the day doesn’t tell me how much I can squat, how far or fast I run, what my grades are, how well my clothes fit, if I’m a genuinely good person. My scale knows nothing about me.

Everyone fluctuates weight daily. I was as high as 141 and as low as 137 all within less than 24 hours. If we fluctuate this much during the day, imagine how much we fluctuate day to day? Weigh yourself every day and see that after a few days of “good eating” you’re up a few pounds? Is it really fat? Is it really ANYTHING? No.

Don’t let the scale tell your story - it’s a liar.

I really like that someone did this. It’s hard to explain this to people when they’re weighing themselves on a daily basis and here it is plain as day. The scale doesn’t tell you what you think it does.

(via tired-of-excuses)