Actually people who smoke pot on a regular basis (three times a week) are less likely to be obese than non pot smokers.
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And one way to help with the munchies is to eat a healthy snack right before you smoke, or smoke right after you eat. Also, drink a lot of water, it'll help to keep your stomach full and doesn't give you any extra calories. Plus it helps out with cottonmouth!
TCH binds to fat cells and is also a foreign substance to your body so it causes you to pee/poop out a lot of fat if your a regular smoker
This topic has a ton of replies, so I might repeat some of what has already been said. Plus it's an old original post, so I doubt the O.P will read this now. However, it seems to be quite popular, so I might still be able to shed some light.....
Weight loss and weight gain in a cannabis smoker depends highly on the individual, but a few things that may cause weight loss:
1) Method of taking cannabis. Nicotine is an appertite inhibitor; thus when smoked without a filter, more nicotine is absorbed by the blood stream enhancing heart rate and creating a 'Flight or Fight' response. When the body goes in to a Fight or Flight response, blood is redirected from the stomach and digestive system towards the limbs and muscles, causing the loss of hunger. It may not neccessarily be the cannabis effecting appertite, but the amount of unfilter nicotine being absorbed in the body.
2) The type and grade of cannabis. Differing levels of cannabinoid and tetrahyrocannabinol can cause different effects; whether it's high grade skunk or bushweed; sativa, indica or ruderalis; bud, squidgy or solid- different weed varieties can cause differing effects on appertite and cravings for food.
3) Lifestyle choices. If a toker is replacing time making food with rolling a bifta and pouring out philosophy on the internet, then weight loss is gonna happen! Also the timings of your body can be a little screwed if you spend a lot of time smoking and replacing past regular activities with smoking, thus your metabolism will change. Plus what the smoker eats is of consequence and personal preferences in food. Often smokers binge eat- for a regular smoker that binge eat might be the only food they've eaten that day. The average calorie intake should be around 2,000 for a fully grown adult- it wouldn't be impossible, but it would be pretty hard to squeeze much more than that in to one stomach in one go. Plus for a regular smoker, that binge will be interupted by having to roll one up, and then the want for food is replaced with a little toke.
4) As someone else has said- THC binds to fat cells, although the reason why regular smokers pee and poo so much is not down to it binding to fat cells. Frequent trips to the loo are the cause of increased fluid intake while smoking. Smoking causes dryness of the mouth, thus smokers are more likely to drink more frequently than a non-smoker. For regular smokers, the most common drinks are coffee and energy drinks. It's also one of the reasons for dodgy bowel movements when a regular smoker suddenly stops. They can experience constipation and diarrhoea in the first few weeks of giving up and need to try and keep sipping water to keep things 'regular'.
5) Regular smokers often get an amphetamine type effect after smoking for years. That is, the body gains a kind of energy from smoking, rather than it act as a carthesis and euphorant. Some display anxiety traits, such as OCD & hyper-organisation. When the body is in an anxiety mode, it's physical reaction is Fight or Flight (see point 1).
Btw- smoked for many years and weigh 8 stone at 5ft 7'.