The more you skip meals the more you lose weight

Your body requires a certain intake of energy giving foods to maintain your body weight at a particular level of activity...reducing from this amount will result in weight loss. As you say,just cutting out meals won't be a fast fix..you nead a balanced intake of food,and missing meals could mean you might overcompensate later..reducing your intake,while spreading meals out and increasing your exercise should have the desired effect..

You are right in that the body will react and adapt. That is why those on diet need to have cheat days. So to skip meals occasionally may help lose some weight. Smaller meals between is a much better way to go.

I am slim already and so have no problem to shed some extra weight.Instead,I have to put on some weight.You may be surprised to know that I eat only once a day- at 9.30 pm at night.Before that I don't take even a slice of bread or a biscuit.Only a cup of tea enables me to keep working till noon when I take another cup of tea.I take my third cup of tea in the evening and then take my dinner at night.I fortunately don't have any problem and I can work for hours without being tired. The information you have shred with us here are certainly extremely useful.

Yes, skipping meals can make you lose some extra pounds. However, this is not an advisable diet plan to practice on a day-to-day basis. Skipping meals can trigger to a lot of bad factors: 1. Although you are slimming, It will eventually give your metabolism a practice of "loss of apetite" 2. Your body thinks its in starvation mode and slows down your metabolism to compensate. During this “fasting,” carbohydrates, proteins and fats are used for energy. 3.As you progress during the day the chances of binging and overeating are high.

Yes you are absolutely correct. When you skip meal, it slows down metabolism, and your body feels hungry. In the state of hungry, your body will store fat as future resource for energy. This is automatic. That means you will not loose the fat! Also you will loose your muscle, because muscle provide energy. Even when you are not doing exercise, your body will need energy to be alive, for all the organs to function. If the body takes away from muscle to get energy, and store the fat, this is the worst! Muscle burns the fat, so you definitely do not want to loose muscle, instead you want to build muscle. Muscle becomes your fat killing machine 24 hours. So don't skip meals, but eat small portion more frequently. Still watch the portion. Breakfast is key! Lunch is also important, but not too much on dinner. Have a snack in between breakfast and lunch, lunch and dinner. Don't eat dinner past 7 pm. Drink a lot of water. Tea is also good. Good luck!

agreed with u.yes, by doing skip your meal, it doesn't make u lose weight ,u might gain weight oven get sick or even so tired to do anything on that day. it just not the best way in diet planning. maybe u can tell your dad not to skip all the meal, but eat in small portion on time an do some exercise.

I don't think it can help you to lose the weight by skipping the meals. On the contrary, you will gain more weights. Since you feel hungry and therefore you can't help eating the snacks or something like that to feel better. And the result is you will gain more weights. The normal and balanced diet is helpful. Skipping the meals is not suggested.

I had just heard this recently too. But I think that most people dont' distinguish between eating several small meals from snacking all day! It can be hard...I mean just think...your mind says you can eat...all day!!! What it isn't telling you is what you should eat and why! My problem is once I start.. I tend to get really hungry all day long...but if I dont' start till late morning...I do okay about eating only 2 meals and very light on the snacking. Also if I keep busy...and out of the kitchen helps alot!

Lit, i ever tried to skip meal to lose weight but not succeed. Because i have gastric problem and it make it worse. So, i prefer to lose weight by having to eat several small meals in a day. At least, i don't have to eat two to three times large meals, which makes me unable to lose weight. I am happy to see i managed to lose some weight by eating a few small meals. Indeed, eating several small meals works wonder on our body.

If your father wants to lose weight, it's best to control how much he eats and only eat when he's really hungry. At the first pang of hunger, he should not quickly find something to eat but rather drink a glass of water. Sometimes that would reduce the hunger but when the hunger pang comes again, he should eat food that is rich in fiber like fruits or leafy vegetables. This type of food will be digested slower and therefore would prolong the feeling of fullness.

I can see how a lot of people think this way. Less meals would help you keep the calorie count down. However, your metabolism would slow down also. It is a good thing you convinced him of this.

That is not a good idea of loosing weight. Actually you are starving yourself if you do this one. Furthermore, according to reasearch, this will increase of possibility of gaining weight faster in you resume on eating the normal way. Like what you said, it is better to eat in small amount than skipping meals.

Hi friend, you are right, we don't lose our weight by skipping meals, some times we will gain more weight with this kind of unwanted activities, by skipping meals we allow air to fill the place of food, due to the extra air we will get belly, so skipping meals never help you to reduce your weight. Take proper diet and do proper exercise to keep your weight in a good maner

thanks for sharing. now that i know this i will never skip any meal anymore. keep on sharing :)

I am not an expert on this but I do agree that skipping meals is not a good way of losing weight. If we do skip meals it might be even bad for health. What is important is the kind of food you take in and the activities you do to have a healthy and fit body.

hello friend, to skip meal is not the proper way of losing weight. it is the proper way to have gastric ulcer!. there are lot of ways for weight loss. diet meaning to eat well balanced diet, exercise, avoid smoking and hard drinks, and the most be positive.. good you were able to convince your father regarding skip meal.

Hello Well, skipping meal and other crash dieting can help us to reduce the weight first, but if we think long they are surely not proper and healthy.. So better do some regular exercising for reducing our extra weight. Yes we can do some dieting but its not meaning we should skip our meals. By this way we will get even more unhealthy. We should follow proper diet by avoiding junk food and other food who give us more fat.

Anyway thanks for sharing the valuable piece of information I elder sister is little fat and she was skipping her meals most of the time to get her slim. Anyway I need to tell her the real matter regarding this and i would surely ask her to do regular exercises and I feel this is only what can help her.

Mechanism is that we wont let our body build a tendency to store fat. And its possible by not skiping frequent light meals and by avoiding few heavey meals a day. Its just like a revolutionary and amazing information. Thanks for your great information.

Yes, people has so many misconceptions and one of those is this. They should have small frequent feedings than skipping meals cause it can give them ulcers. Gladly your father is already convinced. lol