I skip meals, why aren't I losing weight?

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I skip meals, why aren't I losing weight?

Copyright 2005 Sheridan Woodcroft

A big mistake that lots of people make is skipping meals.

They think they are not eating much so they should be

losing weight. Wrong!

Your body was designed with the idea that you have to

expend energy in order to get food. If you think back a

hundred or more years ago, if you wanted to eat something

you had to either go hunting everyday or grow your own

food. And that’s a lot of work – that’s a lot of physical

activity. And even though we no longer have to do this, it

doesn’t change the fact that our bodies are still designed

this way. So when you skip a meal, your body actually

thinks that you’re out in the wild and, for whatever

reason, food is hard to come by. This is a built in

survival mechanism that all of us have – it’s built in. So

when your body thinks food is hard to find, it does two

things to protect you from starving. First it slows your

metabolism causing your body to slow down and burn less

fat. Second the meal you eat after you skip a meal will be

converted almost entirely to fat and stored - to protect

you from starving. So if you skip breakfast, almost all of

what you eat for lunch is converted to fat. We think we’re

taking in less food but in reality were causing our bodies

to store fat.

Your metabolism is totally controllable by you. You can

lose weight easily If you speed your metabolism up

naturally and safely.

Increasing your lean muscle mass enables your body to burn

more fat as it takes more effort to sustain muscle than it

does fat. Therefore, the more lean muscle mass you have,

the faster your metabolism is likely to be. Therefore,

your exercise regime should include not only fat burning

exercises but also some muscle building exercise. Women

should note that this does not mean you have to get ‘beefy’

but just tone up your muscles.

Protein also plays an important part in this process.

Women should generally consume about 100 grams of protein

per day and men 150 grams. This can be quite difficult to

achieve unless you take a protein supplement. You then

know exactly how much protein you are consuming and it is

much easier to control.

So the message is:

1. Don’t skip meals – you will end up putting on weight.

2. Build lean muscle mass by doing a combination of weight

training as well as fat burning exercises.

3. Make sure you are consuming the right amount of protein

per day to aid in building lean muscle mass.

About the Author:

Sheridan Woodcroft is a personal weight management and

health and nutrition mentor. You can visit her website to

find out more about a how, with a few simple changes, you

can boost your metabolism and turn your body into a fat

burning machine and lose weight without exercising

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