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i thought that had to do with how the human body prefers to be at 98.5 degrees

 

I thought homeostasis was to do with hormones and stuff but maybe im wrong.

Either way I am also curious about whether people's weight naturally falls at a certain point.

 

homeostasis just means the settings your body needs for optimal function. temperature, hormones. its generally self regulating. so your body fixes it itself if theres a problem. (not including disease or illness). the theory that your body tries to keep you at a set weight is sketchy at best. theres lots of conflicting evidence about the subject. generally your body will want you to be a healthy weight but at the same time it will crave and reward you for eating high energy foods so you dont starve to death soooo....yeah. i think throwing an ED body into the argument makes it evenmore complicatwd

 

I have exactly zero science to back this up, but I think the "set weight" theory ("your body has a set weight you are programmed to get to") is BS. I think bodies are programmed to be a healthy/functional weight, and to seek out calories & nutrients to get there.

Beyond that, in my personal, completely unscientific opinion, this whole "set weight" business is about the weight that your lifestyle produces. Because most people maintain a lifestyle for years, whatever the physical result of that is (fat, thin, muscular, etc.) is perceived by them as their "set weight." But if they make major lifestyle changes (depression & binging, or becoming a daily runner & changing their food culture) then they have a moderate/large weight change. If they do THAT for years, then they act like it's a new "set weight." No baby, that's just what your body looks like in that lifestyle.

For many people with ED (not all obv) "set weights" are this bizarre thing that happens to other people, because most of us are insanely driven to do behaviours that lead us to constantly be gaining or losing.

TLDR: "set weight" is the result of a lifestyle you maintain for long enough you think it's "natural"/"genetic."

 

Set weight is definitely true for me. 9st 7 is my set weight. I always plateau there and can maintain it easily without counting cals and just by eating naturally. I maintained this weight effortlessly for a while when I wasn't having disordered thoughts. Once I do manage to get below this weight I lose normally again but my body definitely fights to stay there.

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I don't think it's true, exactly, but I do have a point that I have always plateaued at. (Between 130 and 135 lbs) So I guess that's the closest to a set weight I have. But consistently restricting calories or working out breaks that plateau. I think some people use it to justify being overweight. Body positivity is great, don't get me wrong. But denying medical science because it hurts your feelings is a load of crap.

 

I pray that my homeostasis weight is under 120 lbs lmao

 

I think it means that your body gets used to the amount of food you feed it to burn a certain energy during the day as long as it is having enough nutrients.

Basically means your body does not want to lose weight.

For example someone eating 2,000 calories on average for 5 years. And staying at 140lbs. Once the calories are lowered when going on a diet to say 1,500 calories then your body doesn't like that. Thats why you feel tired .. no energy, moody, etc because you are disrupting the homeostasis of your body

 

1. Yes, HOMEOSTASIS is real, but it has nothing to do with weight but with your body regulating itself to it's usual temperature and stuff (not going into detail bc it's a lot and frankly idk how to explain in it English, just in my language, bc that's the language I studied it in). So your body tends to come back to a TEMPERATURE it's used with not a weight.

2. Yes your body tends to want to go back to a certain weight, but it has nothing to do with homeostasis, but with the fact that the brain doesn't like change. That's why it's so hard to change your eating habits, your exercise habits etc, because your brain wants to go back to where it was before you started changing stuff.

3. Genetics have next to nothing related to weight. It's just bullshit in my opinion. My best friend is a very thin and short woman, yet all her family members are tall and overweight (difference is their eating habits.) now of course, if she lazed about and ate crap like them, she would also be overweight, but who wouldn't? If you eat badly and don't work out, you gain weight, if you eat healthy, normal amounts and exercise you are a healthy weight and if you eat under your calories you lose weight. It's very basic. There's no such thing as genetically set weight. Otherwise I would be tall and slim as my parents, instead of short and chubby like I am.

 

you mean like set point? i definitely believe in set point theory. i've experienced it myself. i experience it every day. my set point is somewhere in the 150s, which seems like way too high for me honestly, but that's where my body would always go back to in treatment whenever i regained. and trying to leave that place when i lose always seems really hard. the worst plateau for me is in the 150s because my body doesn't like leaving that spot.

 

you mean like set point? i definitely believe in set point theory. i've experienced it myself. i experience it every day. my set point is somewhere in the 150s, which seems like way too high for me honestly, but that's where my body would always go back to in treatment whenever i regained. and trying to leave that place when i lose always seems really hard. the worst plateau for me is in the 150s because my body doesn't like leaving that spot.

My set point seems to be around a 19 bmi which is a lot of the reason I don't want to go into a hospital, I don't want to be forced up to say, a 22-23 when that's not how my body works.

 

My set point seems to be around a 19 bmi which is a lot of the reason I don't want to go into a hospital, I don't want to be forced up to say, a 22-23 when that's not how my body works.

i feel that so hard. the nice thing about set point is that even if you are made to gain above that (which i also have been through) once you start eating a maintenance plan your body should follow suit and go back down to where you're meant to be. it totally sucks when you're made to gain above that, and getting back down will also be a process. but it's nice that you already know where your body wants to go. makes that a whole lot easier.

 

I have a set weight my body seems to keep going back to, since I was about 16-17 I keep going back to around 130lbs. Like, if I go over that i'll quickly drop back down to that region and and that's where my weight loss always slows down and I find it very easy to gain and go back to that weight if I slip up a bit. I'm trying to change this by trying to get a faster metabolism, I have a slow metabolism atm because i'm very inactive because of chronic pain but i'm just assuming that if my metabolism improves, my body will naturally maintain a lower weight easier. ps. I don't have anything to back up that this is my 'set weight' i'm just assuming because thats just the weight I always end up as when i'm in recovery so I could be talking out of my ASS right now

 

not imo, set weight seems silly to me.

when i was 12 and 4'10", i maintained 95-100lbs without trying. when i was 13 and 5'2", i maintained 120lbs without trying. i lost some weight and at 14 and 5'4" i maintained 115lbs without trying. then i lost some more and maintained 90lbs without trying. at 15 and still the same height i maintained 95lbs without trying. at 16 i maintained 115lbs without trying. at 17 i maintained 110lbs without trying. and so on and so forth.

 

There are people who say a set weight exists for them so I'm not going to say it doesnt exist, but for me my eating was so screwed up and restricted during my entire highschool career that I don't know how to eat normally (it's either calorie counting/fasting, or overeating every day) so for me I think i will always need to count calories or control myself in some 'unnatural' way to keep my weight from just ballooning, let alone actively losing pounds. My brain doesn't understand balance when it comes to food