Hey Steve

. What I mean by primal urges are those urges that make you lose control, you try to control it but you have no control, or it could be a normal bodily function that calls out, like hunger or needing to use the loo, along with all of our favorite, sexual urges ha ha (had to throw that in for the dirty minds on here).
For example, when I was complaining about not being about to cut my calories down below 1800-2000 without feeling very out of sorts (hungry, weak, anxious, angry, short tempered, slightly spacey) and on the flip side, sometimes I was eating a bunch for my [short] size and weight just cuz I had cravings, you would sort of tell me to SUCK IT UP but I tried that and it wasn't possible. I tried that for months in fact. Y'all remember the candy that I stupidly bought thin H at his request and then I kept eating like 6 candies every night, or more sometimes, but this is right after I would swear to myself that I wasn't eating any candy. If it wasn't candy it was ice cream or something, I'm not one for not having my instant gratification needs umm gratified.
Since you very kindly turned me onto the leptin hormone (I OWE you one Steve

), which as you know controls our appetite and energy levels, along with many other important hormones that I frankly had no idea about and am still trying to grasp. I'm not a scientist or an expert so I can only tell you how I'm feeling, and at this point wouldn't profess to want to say what causes anything. All of my prior views are being tested in fact so I'm starting to realize I really dont know everything after all (big shocker LOL).
Working with the leptin according to this book I'm reading has really made me feel a normal type of hunger, not my crazy hunger as described above (and only after around 5 hours of not eating anything), and when I walk by candy now I'm like "nah, I'm trying to lose weight right now so I dont need that" and I keeps to steppin' rather than eating it like I would have before I tried this author's approach. I'm still trying to figure it out so I wouldnt feel comfortable commenting about complex scientific bodily processes at this point. I dont have much of a way of evaluating people's explanations (from this book for example) except via my own subjective feelings.
I do think the subject of leptin and other hormones that work with leptin to control the body is really under-discussed and under-understood (did that make sense?).
Me = Glutton
You = The Man
Chuckroast = High Fat % Ground Beef