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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Skipping Meals to Lose Weight - Good Idea Or Bad?

Going on a diet is never easy. It is far simpler to eat more than to eat less, but if you want to lose weight, then cutting down your calories is a logical step. The only question is how this is to be done.

One way is to skip meals. By skipping breakfast or dinner, you immediately create a huge hole in your calorie consumption. It's that simple, right?

Indeed, if you don't eat one of the major meals each day, there's a good chance that you'll eat a total less calories. However, you are also likely to do something else which will make it much harder for you to lose weight: slow your metabolism down.

People don't know this, but our metabolism fluctuates during the day. One time it's up and another time it's down. One of the times in which our metabolism is at its peak is around meal time, when our body needs to digest food. Actual eating turns the metabolism on.

Therefore, skipping meals to lose weight is actually a bad idea since it slows down the metabolism and this is what determines how fast we burn calories.

That's why it's recommended to eat more meals each day, to spread your calorie consumption throughout the day in mini-meals and snacks: to keep the metabolism running high at all times and to burn a lot of calories and fat.

Skipping meals achieves the opposite: you reduce your calorie burn rate. In addition, you may be tempted to make up for these lost calories in other ways during the day by eating the wrong things. The temptation may be hard to resist since you're depriving your body of what it needs.

Therefore, if you want to lose weight, eat meals at regular times. Make them small and spread them throughout the day.

John_Davenport

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