How fasting or changing the amount of food that you eat, tampers with your metabolism?
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Your body uses the easiest energy source. Eating 3 – 5 meals a day, means your body has a constant supply of easily available energy. So available, that there is typically leftover energy from each meal, and our body turns that extra energy into fat and other proteins, to be used later when food is scarce… But eating 3 – 5 meals a day, means food never gets scarce, so fat continues to build/stay the same. Even if you cut calories with this method, you still are giving your body an easy energy source to pull from first.
However, when you go extended periods without eating (8, 10, 12, 16, …hours) your body goes “I want some energy” and pushes the “I’m hungry” button which you think actually means your hungry so you eat. By fasting, you’re telling your body “figure it out” to which your body (eventually) gives up on pushing the “I’m hungry” button, and gets to work breaking down the fat it has stored up.
Our body creates an eating cycle, just like we have a sleep cycle. By maintaining a constant routine for either of these, your body will adjust and it will become normal and won’t be such a struggle. The longer someone has struggled with overeating, the more difficult this mental change will be to overcome.
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