Many dieters do not realize they have trained their body's to ignore the natural signals that protect them from overeating.
Instead of responding to natural physiological feedback dieters tend to increase or decrease their food consumption based mostly on external stimulus.
Over time - this eating behavior creates a strong conflict, and in many cases overrides your natural ability to gauge fullness.
Dieting experts and researchers have looked thoroughly at the biology and psychology of eating.
Their results show a pattern that those used to dieting should be aware of.
It has been found that people who have a exhibited a long history of dieting literally loose their natural ability to recognize subtle hunger cues, having suppressed them for so long they feel hungry only when they are drop-dead hungry.
And when they eat, they overeat because they are no longer able to recognize the natural, subtle feelings of fullness.
Their biological indifference, as it has as it has been termed, is so hard wired that chronic dieters eat or don't be based only on outside influences such as time of day, thoughts, and beliefs, and they ignore what their bodies are actually trying to communicate to them.
On a biochemical level, it appears excessive dieting triggers and over rides our body's nature's way of ensuring that we stay well fed.
Remember, our body's are programmed to survive, and one way is to make sure you maintain weight.
That is why humans have an incredible capacity to store fat.
In times of famine this would be your friend and would come in handy, but today, it is a burden.