When to Eat to Lose Weight

Aug 6, 2021

Wondering what to eat to lose weight?  This may be the wrong question. Your body needs a break between meals.

 

Traditionally in the US we’ve only paid attention to what we are eating to lose weight and how much we are eating to lose weight, but WHEN we are eating is important as well. 

If you pay attention to Dr. Jason Fung’s work on weight loss, he discusses the power of intermittent fasting and why it works so well. 

When we eat, our blood sugar goes up and insulin rides in to the rescue.  Insulin puts us into fat storage mode to get all that sugar out of the blood. 

When we are constantly snacking, we stay permanently in fat storage mode.

Taking an eating break allows the insulin to drop and our body to go into fat burning mode.  That’s why so many people now are seeing results with intermittent fasting. 

Even if your total calorie intake is the same, having a smaller eating window and allowing a break without eating between lunch and dinner lets your body utilize the fat you’ve stored for just such an occasion.

So while what to eat to lose weight is an important question, it may be that WHEN we are eating is equally important.

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