Lose 10 pounds if you don’t eat late night snacks for a month

Since the overeating during the Spring Festival, many friends who have been motivated to lose weight in February and March, if they have not yet put it into practice, should be more or less anxious in this season just after the summer heat. You know, if you don’t lose weight in March and April, you will be miserable in May, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Eleven and December. The season of showing off the flesh is almost here. How can we lose the most amount of flesh in the shortest time?

How many pounds can I lose if I don't eat dinner for a month?

When it comes to losing weight, many people have the misconception that losing weight starts with skipping dinner. In fact, if you don't eat dinner for a month, for most people, the result will be that you won't lose a pound. However, the reality is not that cruel. You may get an additional benefit, which is to save a month's dinner money.

Some people may want to say that there are indeed people around them who have lost a lot of weight by not eating dinner. Yes, in theory, no matter who eats one less caloric meal a day, he will indeed lose some weight. However, if you are trying to lose weight, skipping dinner is just a way to reduce energy intake. This is no different from eating slightly less at each meal.

What's more, most of the weight lost through dieting is water, which is easy to regain. The short-term low-energy, low-salt, and low-carbohydrate diets used in many weight loss methods will cause the body's water to drain out quickly, thus leading to the illusion of "how many pounds have been lost." However, most of the weight lost through this method is not fat. If you restore your diet after 3 days, your body will quickly store the lost water back home. Fortunately, it is not fat that will rebound at this time. However, if the dieting time is longer, the body's metabolism will decrease. If the diet is restored at that time, the rebound will be more obvious, and the weight with a lot of resilience is fat.

For people who are accustomed to eating three meals a day, suddenly starting to skip dinner and switching from three meals to two meals a day may cause increased hunger, decreased mood, and even overeating due to changes in diet. Especially if you know that you will skip dinner, eat lunch without eating, or eat too much breakfast the next morning because you are hungry for a long time, you may become fatter.

If you want to lose weight, you should do this

Adjust meal and sleep times

In a weight loss experiment, scholars found that people who eat dinner late will consume less and less of their body's ability to rest and digest food. In layman's terms, if they eat dinner too late, their body is not in the best time to burn fat. When sleep time and exercise intensity are the same, people who eat dinner earlier will lose an average of 5 pounds more in 20 weeks than those who eat dinner late.

Therefore, if you want to lose weight, it is recommended to plan the time for eating and sleeping every day. According to the standard of not eating 3 hours before going to bed, push the sleep time to 12 o'clock at night at the latest. Then you must have dinner, including late-night snacks, at least before 9 o'clock. Considering that poor rest will also promote obesity, it is best to try to ensure that you eat before 7 o'clock so that you can fall asleep between 10 and 11 o'clock. If you must have a late-night snack, you must control the caloric value of the late-night snack, preferably no more than 100~200 calories. That is the amount of one or two slices of toast, 4 to 6 cookies, two large cups of yogurt or a 250ml box of pure milk.

Eat breakfast and dinner in reverse order

Carefully recall every day of your life, whether breakfast or dinner is more abundant. Experimental studies have shown that people who habitually eat a rich breakfast are less likely to gain white meat. Even if they just exchange their usual rich dinner with a simple breakfast, and keep the total calories unchanged, they can achieve good weight loss results without additional exercise.

It is also important to eat breakfast and dinner in the opposite direction. Breakfast must have a certain amount of high-quality protein, a large amount of vegetables and fruits, a suitable meal and a small amount of dried fruits, while the food for dinner should not be greasy.