| Thursday, February 15, 2007 |
| Eating Habits |
There's a saying that goes: "Have breakfast by yourself, share lunch with your friend, and give dinner to the poor." Or something similar, anyway...
The idea that stands behind this is that you should eat most of your food in the morning. It's logical, given that you have a whole day to burn the calories you've just had.
However, if you eat your most substantial meal at 8pm, you go to bed at 10pm and in between you are a couch potato, you will put on all the fat brought by your dinner.
If you have an organized schedule, the last meal should be at 7pm. If you eat a lot at night, right before bed, your digestion will be bad as well, and your sleep wil be agitated. The stomach is not supposed to digest food during sleep.
I've never had late night cravings when I went to bed at 11pm, for example, but there are people who do have. The good part is that it is just a matter of self-control: you form your eating habits and the body answers to them. For example, if you teach your body to ask for food in the morning and you stop eating after 7pm, then it will stop asking for food at night. It takes one week to change the habit.
If you get hungry after 7pm, drink water or juice without sugar, or drink plenty of tea.Labels: 7pm, dinner, weight |
posted by Darquette @ 1:11 PM  |
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