From a fitness standpoint, what causes a "food addiction...

From a fitness standpoint, what causes a "food addiction?" There has to be something off in the brains of the morbidly obese for them to allow themselves to get to such a horrid point.

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it's just a form of self medication like any other addiction -- escape from reality and distraction from depression. also if you're like me and have always been fat, you were probably always reminded of how fat and pathetic you were so at some point you just decided to embrace it. until recently, in my case anyway.

Eating causes small amounts of Dopamine release OP. Dopamine is the shit that makes you happy. Your brain causes this release of Dopamine to reward you for eating because food is necessary for survival.

Unfortunately in the 21st century where people can get virtually as much food as they can eat they can binge on this Dopamine release to gain temporary happiness.

>from a fitness stand point
It's all mental you stupid fuck. When something makes us happy, we continue to do it. If there is no other source of happiness, we turn to the easiest source. This is with any addiction, our brains need our fix. Whatever that fix may be, ofc.

I lift because it makes me happy. To see how strong I can become, see where I was, see where I can get. But at the end of the day, im not doing it in a healthy manner brah...im fucked just like a fatty. I want to surpass my limits...i keep going back to lift the next weight. I keep chasing the dragon. We're all fucked brah...

Many foods are formulated specifically to be as addictive and yet unsatiating as possible so that you keep eating it and feel good when you eat it. It's the result of food production in a sales-oriented society. Many people are capable of governing their actions and appetites to counter this, but not everybody has the willpower or knowledge required.

>dopamine
Music releases it too. So does internet surfing. So does porn.

Why don't fatties just switch to one of those?

fpbp

>I adopted a new beagle
>it was so cute, but it had some serious health problem and I couldn't fix it
>I decided it was best to just put it out of it's misery
>I picked it up, turn it upside down and slammed it onto the floor headfirst
>it didn't die, it just looked stunned and it's mouth was gaping open
>pick it up again
>slam it down on it's neck again
>it still didn't die and it's clearly in pain
>pick it up again
>slam it down for a third time with the force of a thousand suns
>feel it's tiny spine snap
>body instantly goes limp
>eyes glaze over
>jaw hangs open
>get up and throw the body in the trash
>wake up in a cold sweat and hug my doggo

It's just what they find I guess, my man. Everyone eats food, and everyone's had Mc Donalds at some point so it's a pretty likely addiction to pick up. I find that fat people often have little self control and/or tend to binge on things in general though, I'd say it's likely that there's a correlation between excessive internet use and weight problems.

wtf?

There's scratchers too. Some people go through scratch tickets like fat people go through a box of hostess. One lady in front of me at the convenience store the other day won around $180 off of scratch tickets. So what did she do?

She bought more scratch tickets. Has to be a similar region of the brain responsible for this.

dreams are weird man

Hug your puppers tight, user. Let it know it was all just a dream.

different levels of dopamine and shit I believe.

Given the option of eating an XL oreo blizzard or leveling to my favorite album, I would choose the blizzard every time..assuming I didn't care about my weight. Hell, you can always do both at the same time.

Partially true

Obesity comes about because of spices. Spices cause that dopamine release you are talking about. But more interesting is what happens once you begin to fatten. Here is from wikipedia:

Leptin (from Greek λεπτός leptos, "thin"), the "satiety hormone", is a hormone made by adipose cells that helps to regulate energy balance by inhibiting hunger. Leptin is opposed by the actions of the hormone ghrelin, the "hunger hormone". Both hormones act on receptors in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus to regulate appetite to achieve energy homeostasis.[4] In obesity, a decreased sensitivity to leptin occurs, resulting in an inability to detect satiety despite high energy stores.[5]

It's... a parasite?

You must have misread something, mate

also for those wondering the usual mechanism for decreased sensitivity is the following:

>eat normal
>normal leptin production
>normal number of receptors on cells regulating hunger
>eat a lot
>a lot of leptin
>keep eating a lot
>hunger regulating cells are getting super strong signals of satiety
> they cope with it by reducing the number of receptors on their surface
>the hormone can't bind a receptor
>the hormone can't function.

Obesity is not literally a parasite, it displays characteristics of parasitism.

>requires a host
>changes biochemistry of host's brain as it grows
>changes behavior
>provides no benefits (not symbiotic)
>kills it's host

Oh yeah, you could say that. I thought you were seeing parasites in the brain pic lel. At least obesity isn't contagious if you are strong willed.

spices or spikes?

I meant spices. The thing you put in your food to make it taste better.

Because there's one Dopamine reward for scratching the material off and one for every time another number matches. Also the money making principle of scratch tickets is 'invest more earn more'. In her mind the 180 dollar investment she won was an investment to try and win more; even if she loses all of them she still only 'spent' her initial couple of bucks in scratch tickets, since that's what she originally invested.

That's a really interesting graph dude.

>In her mind the 180 dollar investment she won was an investment to try and win more; even if she loses all of them she still only 'spent' her initial couple of bucks in scratch tickets, since that's what she originally invested.
Obviously it's a problem for her, but I play that way in casinos. $40 in the door and I'll play until I lose it. Very rarely have I ever come home with winnings, and it's usually when I just get a lucky streak right at the end of the night. Other nights I'm out the door in less than an hour.

I only go like once or twice a year though.

>I'd say it's likely that there's a correlation between excessive internet use and weight problems.
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU STOP INTERNET ADDICTION

Either use the net to make money or set limits.

It's like filling a void. You can't stop addiction, you replace it. Find something better to be addicted to, like fitness for instance.

I'd like to do this but I don't have the stamina to exercise 12 hours a day like I can sit in front of a computer and shitpost

It's called being a weak bitch.

drug addicts are all weak bitches, right?

what a simplistic worldview

You must have some inclination for one of these activities - dancing, singing, drawing, shooting, riding. These are stuff that everybody likes to do. Dancing is also good cardio. Just think about cavemen and what they did.

I used to be a serious video game addict my dude. I just realised it was killing my life so instead of focusing on video games I decided to focus on self improvement. I study, try to improve my social life, i just picked up a job, I go to the gym, etc. Once you start focusing on being a better person you find your time looking for spare hours to mess around with, not filling in the 18 hours you have.

I love guns and shooting, but I can't afford ammo anymore and the range is an hour drive.

Spam cans are up to like $.30/round

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I don't like porn. Is something wrong with me? It just doesn't turn me on, but when I'm around a girl I like my heart races.

Yes they are.

Users who are told that their drug habit is "an addiction" are drastically less likely to ever quit.
Those who are told they are personally responsible for their continued use of drugs (you know, because they fucking are?) quit more easily.

Weak Bitch Syndrome afflicts most of the human race. There is no excuse for sticking a needle in your arm every day. That's you doing that. If you do that every day, it's your fault. End of story. You are a weak bitch because you make a choice every day that you know is wrong.

Same. I still play video games but usually about 1-2 hours at a time and not everyday. btw What do you study and what books have you read recently?

You could try a bow. It's also pretty fun.

>comparing mcdonalds to crystal meth

:)

>my heart races

But what does your dick do? Does it not get hard?

His heart races. He is obviously in fight or flight mode. You don't get erections when you are fighting or running from a big mad dog, do you?

He's

I trying to find out whether his dick ever gets hard

Same reason as all other addictions dopamine and seretonin

>my mind wanders

I study Computer Applications; I'm in the middle of a two year course. At the moment I'm reading devils by dostoevsky and "everything that can happen does happen" by Cox and Forshaw. I just finished the great Gatsby.

Bow Shooting is great fun. I'm actually looking at investing in a Recurve Bow.