Get Fat By Skipping Meals

Eating less is the first method most overweight people use to lose weight. This usually starts with skipping meals rather than eating smaller meals. This is the quickest way to put your body in a state where it will actually make you heavier.

Although, at first you'll lose some weight when you start skipping meals the weight loss will be very short lived. What you lose at first is water weight and muscle mass. As you lose your muscle mass your metabolism starts to slow down even though you will still be losing some weight .

The first meal overweight people usually give up is their breakfast. They think that skipping breakfast after waking up hungry will cause their body to start burning fat. What skipping breakfast does do is slows down your metabolism. As your metabolism slows throughout the day your body goes into starvation mode. This is where it will start storing fat, and burning off your muscles as energy.

The human body is very intelligent. It will eat away at your muscles because it knows these are burning off more calories than fat does. This is so your body won't burn too many calories while you're starving your body throughout the day. Fat storage is something else your body does while you're not eating as many meals as you should be. Your body stores fat so it has something to feed on when your muscle have become to small, and are not burning up much energy.

When you eventually eat in the evening your body will sore all the calories from your meal as fat. Your body will learn that it's not going to get any more food until the following evening so it will store as much as it can. It will also slow down the rate in which the meal is digested so you'll be digesting while you sleep.

5 to 6 meals a day is what you should be looking at eating as part of a successful weight loss program. To speed up your metabolism you need to increase your muscle mass as muscle burn more calories than fat. Cardio is also needed as it can burn an extra 2000 to 4000 calories a week depending on your weight and the intensity in which you train.

Losing weight and keeping it off is not an over night process, and anything that loses you weight overnight will be very short lived. You need to do it safely, and not starve your body of the calories it needs to function properly.

1. Prev:Obesity, Dont Only Blame Your Genes
2. Next:How To Maintain Your Weight Even While Attending Holiday Parties