There’s sure a lot of information out there on the best times to eat for weight loss, isn’t there?
“Eat breakfast. It’s the most important meal of the day.”
“Don’t eat breakfast! You don’t need it!”
“Have a nice, filling dinner, because heaven forbid you go to bed on an empty stomach.”
Starting right now, you can tune all that other stuff out, because I’m gonna make this incredibly simple for you, by telling you the two times NOT to eat when you want to lose weight.
#1 – Don’t eat when you’re not hungry.
Seems obvious, right?
Yet how many times have you eaten when you’re not hungry?
It could be you were bored, or it could be because it was “meal time” and that’s just when you think you’re supposed to eat.
It could also be that you believe you HAVE to eat in order to “keep up your metabolism,” or because not eating your first meal of the day first thing in the morning is somehow bad for you.
The problem is, eating when you’re not hungry is a great way to get fat.
So start listening to your body’s natural hunger and let that guide your meal times.
If you always feel hungry (and you’re getting enough sleep, since constant, ravenous hunger can be caused by poor sleep), or never feel hungry, the problem is the same: Your hormones are screwed up from eating crappy food. Eating the way we eat on Code Red will balance them and return your appetite to normal.
#2 – Don’t eat late.
Eating late is a problem for a lot of reasons. For one, it takes two-thirds of your body’s energy to digest food.
For another, your body does its best healing when you’re asleep. Your liver detoxes, inflammation goes down, and your body repairs and rejuvenates itself.
But if you go to bed with a full stomach, your body has no choice but to devote two-thirds of its energy to digesting all that food, which means it has fewer resources to repair you.
Also, if you habitually eat before you go to sleep, your body will start storing that food as fat.
That’s one reason Japanese sumo wrestlers get so fat. They eat a huge, carb-heavy meal, then go right to sleep. It packs the pounds on really quickly.
Do your body and your weight loss a favor by listening to your body and eating only when you’re hungry; and by avoiding those big, late dinners.
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