Does not Eating help you Lose Weight?

Weight loss may seem like a simple task by the principle of eating less to weigh less, but the fact is that healthy weight loss does not happen as easily and quickly as with eating less. Starving to lose weight, according to several studies and observations, is counterproductive to one’s long-term fitness goals. Doctors and dieticians suggest that people should include the right assortment of food in their diet to lose weight instead of starving as the former promises good health lifelong. [Read: Fasting Myths and Facts]

The body does reduce or lose weight because of the burning of more calories that what one consumes, but if there is a drastic reduction in the amount of calories in the daily diet, the body will compensate by piling as many calories as possible as fat. The body will react to a sudden absence of calories from the diet as an onslaught of the lack of it and therefore, pile up the existing calories as fat to make up for a time when the body is exposed to a possible famine. [Read: How to Lose Weight Fast]

If you make subtle changes in your lifestyle, you will experience an effective and healthy improvement in your physical fitness. For instance, instead of stopping consuming bread, shift to a nutritious whole-grain bread. If you eat meat, instead of cutting the inclusion of meat in your diet completely, switch to lean meat and stay away from fried meat.  

Most obese people tend to follow the self-devised rule that avoiding breakfast helps to lose weight, but one must realize that a breakfast is a very important part of one’s diet. At no cost must you ignore or avoid eating breakfast. Include a nutritious breakfast to begin your day and make your body understand that there is no scarcity of food. Besides, a healthy breakfast helps one keep his or her appetite in check and prevents binge eating of junk food.

A major lifestyle change that has helped people to lose weight is eating several small meals instead of few large meals.  This helps your body to know that food is available and therefore, there is no need to store calories as fats to compensate for later. [Read: How to Break Habits to Lose Weight]

Eating small meals several times a day helps hunger pangs to stay under control. Besides, eating small meals keep cholesterol levels under control. According to a study by the University of Cambridge, people, who ate six small meals every day, had 5 percent lower cholesterol levels compared with those, who ate few large meals.

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