Trying to lose weight without sucess? Meal skipping may be the culprit!

How Meal Skipping is Keeping You from Your Goal

Many believe in the misconception that if you don’t eat you lose weight, false. Starving your body actually causes your metabolism to slow down! This is because the body has no food to metabolize. When your body is not digesting food it begins to store fat because it's unsure of when it will receive its next meal. Your body stores fat because your ghrelin (hunger hormone) slows down fat utilization and increases appetite. When you meal skip it causes your body to become so hungry that by the time you do eat, you end up overeating. This causes blood sugar spikes which can contribute to weight gain and the development of diabetes. The longer you go without eating the greater the reduction of your T3 (triiodothyronine). Your T3 thyroid hormone affects almost every process in your body, which includes growth, body temperature and heart rate.

Side Effects of Meal Skipping:

·       -  Nausea

·       -  Lowered blood pressure

·       -  Constipation

·       -  Decreased bone density

·       -  Menstrual dysfunction

·       -  Mood swings

·       -  Fatigue

·       -  Decreased resistance to disease

·       -  Slower metabolism

·       -  Blood sugar drops and spikes

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