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The stomache is a shaped organ that is about a foot long and 6 inches at it’s widest points. The stomache typically is meant to hold just a couple cups of food at a time — and up to a quart. It CAN Stretch to hold up to a gallon with persistent overeating. Eating less will not shrink your stomache but it can help to reset your body’s appetite thermostat so you don’t feel as hungry and that can help you achieve your weight loss and weight management goals
Digestion does not actually take place in the stomache. The stomache acts like a blender, churning everything together and breaks it down then releases it in small batches into the small intestine where most of digestion occurs.
Soluble fiber like oat bran, beans peas and citrus fruits cause more gas and bloating than the insoluble fiber found in whole grain wheat, wheat cereals, cabbage, beets and carrots just to name a few. Soluble fiber is the food for the gut microbes. Imsoluble fiber is not digested at all and passes right through and has no interaction with the gut flora. For you Keto people psyllium powder flour is a great ingredient for your Keto bread because it acts as both an insoluble and a soluble fiber. It is the insoluble fiber that controls the size, amount and frequency of your bowel movements.
It really makes no difference what time of day you eat. It has nothing to do with weight gain or loss. It is the calories that ultimately count. BUT— eating at night and particularly close to bedtime may disrupt your body’s circadian rhythm altering hormones that control appetite and make digestion more difficult causing gas, bloating, heart burn and abdominal pain.
The gut has a “brain” that helps make sure that food moves through the digestive process at the right pace and in the right amounts. Just like you get tired at the end of the day, your guts brain does as well resulting in decreased peristaltic contractions that move the food through the digestive process.
This little blurb is part of a program that I helped my young friend, the GENERAl, put together when she was 10 years old. She and her mom had both successfully lost weight (or grew taller and into their weight) and the little girl wanted to know how digestion works. She and I spent a couple days a week one summer at the library learning about digestion and weight control. She started presenting this program to her classmates and she has done it every year since then.
View Diet Calendar, 18 February 2019:
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1558 kcal
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Fat: 71.79g | Prot: 68.00g | Carbs: 168.10g.
Breakfast: Sarabeth's Orange Apricot Marmalade, NoSalt Nosalt, Egg, Aqua de Jamaica (hibiscus ice tea), Dave's Killer Bread Thin-Sliced Good Seed Bread, Welch's Concord Grape Fruit Juice Cocktail, Maxwell House International Cafe Orange. Lunch: Driscoll's Blueberries, Chobani Nonfat Vanilla Blended Greek Yogurt (Container), Tru-Nut Powdered Peanut Butter, Ranch Granola, Chobani Nonfat Plain Greek Yogurt. Dinner: Ambrosia, Calavo Avocado, Bolthouse Farms Classic Ranch Yogurt Dressing, Cucumber (with Peel), Grape Tomatoes, Mixed Salad Greens, Tillamook Vintage White Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese, Tillamook Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese, Gouda Cheese, Nabisco Triscuit Fig & Honey, Baked or Broiled Salmon. Snacks/Other: Apple Pie. more...
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1768 kcal
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Exercise:
Studying - 2 hours, Housework - 1 hour, Swimming (slow) - 2 hours, Resting - 11 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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