Enzymes

A real work horse for weight loss is the enzyme. What is an enzyme? Enzymes are biomolecules that catalyze or increase the rates of chemical reactions. Well they are chemical compounds or catalysts in the blood stream that work with other organisms to accomplish useful tasks. As far as weight-loss goes, enzymes entice (see the short video) lazy fat cells to leave the comforts of their nice, cozy, and luxurious fat stores in the body and enter the blood stream. But unbeknownst to these fat cells, they are being lulled away so they can be burned for energy in muscle tissue. We already know the sad fate of these fat cells. (See the post for February 28, 2009.) Sad any way for a fat cell, but we humans think that it's pretty neat!

This process of releasing fat cells from fat stores all sounds pretty good. And it's all thanks to those enzymes! It would seem that it would be good to get more of them? How can we get more enzymes? Well, you've got to exercise more! They took muscle biopsies of college athletes and regular college students and they found that the athletes had lots more enzymes! So the way to get more enzymes, is to exercise more.

This was the week of the end-of-the-month measuring. Bill lost one inch off his waist and Rhonda lost three inches! Both were losers in another way, (but really winners!) This week Rhonda lost two pounds and Bill lost one pound.

Next week will be interesting. Bill goes in for more eye surgery on Wednesday. Last year, when he had a similar surgery, he went in weighing 286 pounds. It took a month before he got back down to that weight again. Now 11 months later, and weighing only 250 pounds, Bill is hoping for a better result.

As always, their set points scores for this past week:

Rhonda: (S) 100 (S) 100 (M) 85 (T) 98 (W) 100 (T) 100 (F) 100

Bill: (S) 100 (S) 100 (M) 93 (T) 100 (W) 100 (T) 100 (F) 100