Healthy Lifestyle Geek

Did you know that your homeostasis mechanism is vital to keeping you alive. This negative feedback system is a dynamic process that is in constant flux to maintain optimal internal conditions for your body’s survival. It self regulates to maintain your optimum health. It carries on without consciousness.

It’s only goal is to maintain your optimum health. Your body’s exposure to an external or internal environmental stressors are dealt with through this negative feedback control mechanism.

What this means is that once a stressor is presented, your body responds to negate its influence in a battle to return you to optimum health.

A working understanding of this regulatory balancing system helps to explain why you are finding it difficult to lose weight or stick with a fitness program. Not only does this system work to maintain a steady state, it also has the ability to adapt to a repetitive stimuli creating a new set.

The conditioning of overeating and under moving invites a new set point for your homeostasis. Once a new set point is in place, then you have to mentally push your own body to adapt to a newly desired set point. That weight loss battle is all about fighting your own body’s homeostasis that wants to return to that heavier undesired steady state.

Adaptation takes time and repetition. How long it takes your homeostasis to adapt depends on your particular genetic being. So essentially you must condition your body to maintain less fat. If you have been overweight for years, your homeostasis has reset to this overweight state and it will struggle to maintain it.

Bottom line is that your body has a set point in regards to being overweight and under worked. Your mental desire to change this does not create a new set point. What will change this is conditioning. Conditioning is repetitive stimuli (fewer calories or more movement) that pushes your homeostasis to respond and thus setting a new steady state.

Adaptability is preparing your body for the future based on the past. Don’t get discouraged and lapse back to past behaviors. Push through your homeostasis negative feedback system until it has the opportunity to create your newly desired set point.

Remember homeostasis didn’t set a heavier weight steady state overnight, so give it a chance to reset.

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