Myths of Skipping Dinner

Everyone is running behind the success, money, and career in this pragmatic world. 

Due to this hectic and monotonous schedule, we hardly get any time to concentrate on ourselves. Acquiring a streamlined body seems to be an arduous job nowadays. Moreover, we don't get the leverage like these film fraternity people who can easily dedicate their full time to the gym. So we rather than going to the gym or doing any exercise, choose an easy option that is simply by skipping dinner. Generally, people perception is that skipping meal aids in weight loss, which is a myth.

What happens when you skip dinner: 

Most of the people have a delusion that skipping meal accelerates the metabolism rate. Some might even consider it as a weight loss remedy. We have a universal viewpoint, everything that is consumed during the nighttime converts into fat. Skipping the dinner meal might be considered as one of the most popular sources of losing weight. Unfortunately, it is again a counter-intuitive thought.

One should increase their awareness towards what their body demands rather than focusing on the time of consumption. What to eat and in what portion should be more focused. Eating junk food during daytime has an equally adverse effect on the body. There is no need for skipping the dinner, as long as you are eating in the right portion. 

Those who skip meals tend to eat more to retain their lost calories.

Your body activates a starvation mode when you skip a meal. The body remains in this starvation mode until you eat next time. At this stage, your body starts craving for food. Our body needs a certain amount of energy to breath, digest food, and to perform other functions. It will crave for food that carries extra calories to stay active. When you starve, you loosen up your muscle mass and metabolism rate degrades making your body sluggish. As an outcome, you not only reduce your fat burning ability but also accumulates more calories in the form of fat. Moreover, skipping meals makes you crave for high-calorie food containing a large amount of carbohydrate and sugar. One who skips their dinner consumes extra calories to stay energetic. This pattern induces certain metabolic changes in the body.  It can engender obesity, elevated fasting glucose, and delay insulin response which makes you more prone to diabetes. 

However few people don't skip their dinner instead, they consume only fruits or eggs for dinner. Including only fruits or eggs in your diet and refraining from carbohydrates doesn't ensure weight loss. In fact, those who only have fruits in their diet sense more bloating and fatigue. Although, fruits intake is good but not during the night time. Due to lack of any physical activity, our body is not able to digest fatty and bloaty food like eggs and fruits during night time. 

We should take green leafy vegetables, boiled chicken breast, roughage, low carbs like quinoa, brown rice instead of skipping the meal to prevent bloating and other gastric problems. 

Few people eat a small portion of meal every hour instead of skipping meals, which again provoke overeating.

Instead of starving with a growling stomach, listen to your body and obey its natural hunger. Follow a healthy diet program focusing on your body requirements. Stick to plan that works best for you and will ensure success in your weight loss endeavors. Stay Healthy :)