When Losing Weight, Eating Two Meals a Day, Is It Effective?

If this is a long-term habit, but it has not changed after a long time, it means that continuing to persist will be of no use, it is better to choose 'small meals, more meals' to replace it, which might be helpful; If this is a recently started way, one meal a day has reduced the food calorie, but it's difficult to achieve the purpose of weight loss, but there is a difficulty, that is difficult to persist, and the satisfaction of the brain is reduced, which will make it even more difficult to persist, and it may increase the risk of overeating.

• What are the disadvantages of one meal a day?

①Severe hunger, it's difficult to control appetite

We are now used to eating three meals a day, and the average is to eat every 4-5 hours. This eating method is quite scientific, it is determined by the digestive time of our stomach. Our stomach emptying time is more than 4 hours, that is, it takes about 4-5 hours, the stomach will be a little empty. It feels itchy and wants to eat something. The emptying time of the intestines is more than 6 hours, and after more than 6 hours, we can call it 'hungry and empty'. The human metabolism constantly needs energy, although we have reserve energy, such as fat and glycogen, but the energy that can be 'quickly utilized' is consumed, and we still have a strong sense of hunger.

For example, after lunch, we may feel hungry in the afternoon, want to eat something, at this time we can supplement some snacks, I recommend a fruit or some nuts. If we can't eat anything until six or seven o'clock, the stomach will gurgle (which is actually the sound of the stomach wall grinding), we need to endure, and when we finally endure until dinner, we are constantly consuming reserve energy, the body will feel powerless and sleepy, unable to concentrate on things, and long-term like this, the brain may have serious dissatisfaction, which will 'urge' us to eat supper, or eat a lot of food at the last meal, in this case, we may eat more calories.

②It may have a greater impact on blood sugar.

The practice of one meal a day is similar to a foreign 'light fasting', it ensures that three meals are finished within 8 hours, and the remaining 16 hours do not eat anything. However, we must know that this light fasting is not for daily execution, it is recommended to 3-4 days a week, and this way is mainly used to improve diabetes and hyperlipidemia, in fact, it is more recommended for everyone to 'small meals, more meals', do not eat too much in one meal, it is recommended to eat 1-2 meals a day (one meal recommended to eat 1/3-1/2 of the normal meal), this has the benefit of avoiding eating a lot of food at one meal, and can also maintain satiety, because it is not easy to feel hungry, so it can better control appetite, because there is not much to eat in one meal, it is also better to stabilize blood sugar, we just need to control the total heat intake in a day, 'more meals' does not mean that the heat intake will be more.

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