Set Point

My natural set-point is currently around 204, meaning that I can do quite a bit or I can do very little and still hover right around there. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The war in Vietnam was not marked by set-point battles, or land scale amphibious assaults against enemy held beaches. ❋ Beth Crumley (2012)

I weigh 204 again, right at my set-point and well short of my goal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This, by the way, is a secret to how weight-challenged people can "work out" for hours a week and get little result: they do long slow aerobic work that burns few calories and doesn't change their set-point. ❋ Steven Barnes (2010)

Davidson discovered that each one of us has a neural index for our mood set-point. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some good news: you don't need three years -- the biggest positive shifts in set-point seem to come early in practice. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's clear that Oprah's body was never meant to be comfortable at a set-point that makes her a size 6. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I don't know if your weight set-point is affected by the glucose/insulin surges that high-gi diets provide, or if the flavor theory is correct and the flavor-calory combination of the high-gi foods strongly offsets the negative push from the unflavored calories. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When I went back to a combination of a low-glycemic-index diet and Robert's set-point lowering strategy, it again worked fine. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, this obscures the fact that most people are unable to change their weight in the long term (as metabolisms adapt to new food-intake levels) and that restrictive eating patterns almost inevitably lead to a higher set-point weight (again, metabolic adaptation), as well as obsessive behaviours like binge eating. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This week's been nothing but bad workout days, where I'm struggling just to reach my usual set-point of 500 calories burned, and my muscles were aching, and I was just tired. ❋ Homestrange (2006)

Admittedly my weight had gone up significantly from the set-point it had hovered around, but still the diet was a mistake. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But whereas before the set-point assumption was black inferiority “but we should be nice to them” the set-point now was black equality. ❋ Steven Barnes (2008)

So high blood cholesterol is not due to excess cholesterol consumption, but to a high set-point not that I believe total blood cholesterol means much. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You may consciously think you'd like to keep a neater house, or process your email more regularly, but if you don't change the set-point of the real standards you have about the amount of out-of-control-ness you actually will tolerate, they will slide back in spite of your best intentions. ❋ Unknown (2008)