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Originally Posted by astra
It also depends on how often you eat.
Our body is used from primordial times to save fat for cold periods. If you eat 2-3 times a day with bug time gaps, your body is entering a life saving mode when it thinks that food is hard to obtain, so let's put away those calories in the form of fat just in case. If you break your meals into smaller portions and consume them more often, the same amount of calories will be used more wisely by your body.
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My basic rules are:
No breakfast past 9AM, just go straight to snack between 10AM and 11AM*
Breakfast before 6:30AM = second breakfast before 9AM
Nutrious snack between 10AM and 11AM
Lunch between 12:30PM and 13:30PM
Nutrious snack between 15:30PM and 16:30PM
Dinner around 18:30PM, but never ever later than 9PM
No more snacking after 9PM (double calories !)
* This is what happens every day of the weekend and during holidays. But it doesn't really matter, because I usually get up around 10 and go straight to the snack after waking up.
So basically you eat something every 3 hours. Works like a charm. If you don't eat approximately every 3 hours, you're body will start to store fat, like Astra said.
And also: lots and lots of water. I used to drink very little a couple of years ago, basically 2 glasses of water a day. My dietitian said: you will never lose weight if you don't start drinking at least 1,5 liters of water a day. I didn't believe her, I didn't lose much weight. I started drinking a bottle of water a day, and started losing weight. Weird huh
