Are you unable to feel full during a meal?

Satiation is the feeling of fullness and satisfaction that tells the brain when it’s time to stop eating. With a hungry brain, the brain is unable to determine when a meal is over, resulting in increased food consumption during a meal.

Your weight loss intervention will stimulate hormones that relay fullness, which is shown to decrease food intake and body weight among individuals with this dominant phenotype.

Do you frequently get hungry in between meals?

Satiety is the sense of feeling full during and after a meal. With a hungry gut, individuals often feel full during a meal, but find themselves hungry shortly after eating, caused by food moving out of the stomach faster than other phenotypes.

Knowing when to eat, what to eat, and other complementary therapies to support weight loss makes all the difference.

Do you eat to feel better or relieve stress?

Seeking food as a reaction to negative or positive emotions, or as a coping mechanism, can be defined as emotional hunger, characterized by high levels of cravings, anxiety, and depression.

Specific interventions such as cognitive therapy and medications that address underlying emotions may be helpful and lead to weight loss for patients with this dominant phenotype.

Do you have a slow metabolism?

With this phenotype, an individual’s rate of metabolism is lower than normal, also known as abnormal energy expenditure, characterized clinically by low muscle mass and abnormal metabolic rate.

Committing to specific physical activity interventions may prove to be the most effective weight loss strategy for patients presenting with a dominant slow burn phenotype.