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Does The Stomach Strink When Losing Weight?
Part 1 of 3--The Stomach
My wife's acupuncturist mentioned that your stomach "does not shrink" when losing weight. Hummmmmm. Always heard that it did. Fat cells shrink, but does the stomach?
So, being in the investigative weight-loss mode for what I have to actually DO to lose weight, I went looking.
Found that she was correct. Here's how it goes:
When the stomach is empty of food, it returns to its normal size, about the size of one's fist. When food comes in to be digested, it has folds, like an accordion, and expands to the size needed to handle the food. When the foot is digested, it goes BACK to its normal size.
Bottom line: The stomach can expand and contract, but its size stays the same UNLESS: surgery.
When you get the stomach surgery, for health reasons or illness, the stomach size is changed.
Therefore, you can't "shrink" the normal size of your stomach. It is created to expand and contract naturally to its normal size when not full, just like an accordian!
And here is a fact that is most helpful in weight loss awareness: the stomach does tend to change its digestive patterns slowly. When the stomach gets used to something it expects that to continue. So when losing weight, it will take a short while for it to adjust to the new amounts of food it is receiving.
Once it adjusts, it gives new signals such as a new threshold of "feeling hungry" and "feeling full" will be established to support a lower body weight and flow of caloric intake, once it has adjusted.
This is why it is advised to lose weight slowly so it can adjust to the new level of intake and work to give new signals of "hunger" and "fullness." Working with this, can dramatically help weight-loss and most importantly stabilization and maintainance!
Now, let's get to it!
Don
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