Dr. Jason Fung

When you squelch the hunger, weight loss isn't all that difficult.

Yeah, so there's different reasons we eat.

So most of us think about the physical hunger, which is in scientific terms is called homeostatic hunger.

And this is driven by hormones.

So if you think about it, people think about that they're hungry.

You know, they think it's because they haven't eaten in a while.

But that actually isn't the case.

Because if you think about body fat is a store of calories.

So if you have body fat, say you have 50 pounds to lose, you have

375,000 calories sitting on your body.

So why can't your body simply release some of those to take care of the hunger?

If hunger is simply you needing calories, right?

So therefore it's clearly not the case.

Certain hormones,

produce more hunger, certain hormones reduce hunger.

So there's two other types of hunger.

There's something called, which is something called hedonic hunger, which is sort of an emotional hunger because we eat because it feels good.

We like it.

And there's, you know, a lot of people, you know, if you think about it, eat for emotional reasons, they're bored, they're feeling a little low.

So therefore you eat to feel better.