Too many people don't find the time to eat breakfast and believe me it is challenging. However, I have not missed a single breakfast for years. When it comes to dropping body fat, breakfast ranks up there as one of the most if not the most important meal of the day. Why? Let's take a closer look.
Suppose you follow lip service and you hear that not eating after say 6pm will help you lose weight. Ok, let's do that. You go to sleep at 10pm. You get 8 hours of sleep and wake up at 6am. You don't eat breakfast and your next meal isn't until say...9am. Suppose that this meal is a cup of coffee with cream and sugar. That's about anywhere from 200 to 500 calorie depending on several factors. Let's take a look at the time from when you last ate until you had that cup of coffee. 6pm was your last meal time. 6pm till 9am the next day is 15 hours! That's 15 hours of starvation and 15 hours too long. The reason why it is called breakfast is because you are breaking the fasting that occurs when you sleep. Get it? Break - fast.
Starvation Many many years ago before the time of modern civilization man had to hunt for his food and didn't really know when his next meal would be. It could be days before the next meal. Therefore, since fat has the highest concentration of calories (9 calories per gram) the body will gladly give off calories from carbohydrate stores (glycogen) and protein stores (muscle). Losing muscle because of starvation will dramatically slow down your metabolism. Muscle is the key to a higher metabolism. The bodies main job is survival and will do whatever necessary to make sure you stay alive at all costs. That's why when we starve ourselves, the body is actually holding on to body fat because of it's high calorie concentration. Not to mention that body fat is a great source of energy and warmth.
When we eat breakfast, we are revving up our metabolism to start burning calories. And when we eat breakfast calorie burning is dramatically accelerated. At night when you are sleeping your body is breaking down body fat deposits. That body fat is circulated into the bloodstream making it immediately available to burn off for energy. If not utilized for energy, then it will deposit back into adipose tissue (body fat).
If you want to drop body fat, then eat your breakfast. If you starve yourself then what you are doing is breaking down muscle and carbohydrates for energy while your body is storing it's body fat stores. Simply put, when you starve yourself your making your body more efficient at storing body fat.
Josue Cano has been working in the fitness industry and has authored numerous articles about weight loss and fitness. He splits his passions with weightlifting, garlic salsa and nutritious tasty foods. He supports organic and locally produced foods made with ingredients you can pronounce. Check out his salsa that's only made with natural fresh ingredients. He's the author of his first book: Don't Weight Get in S.H.A.P.E. and holds the distinguished credential of C.S.C.S. (Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist)
He manages his own blog: Cap's Cave and check out his Garlic Salsa site!
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