Busting Weight Loss Myths

Skipping Meals Helps Weight Loss

Individuals who think they can make up for a huge meal by just skipping their next one need to rethink their strategy. The concept of skipping meals helps weight loss may be true if you select an intermittent fasting schedule because this involves rescheduling your meals and always eating at regular times. However, randomly missing meals here and there actually has the opposite effect. If your body has come to expect food at a certain time, not eating then can send hunger signals into overdrive. You may end up eating up to twice as much as you normally would at the next meal, therefore negating all the food you skipped previously. This is particularly common when individuals skip breakfast or lunch, because dinner foods tend to contain more calories than the typical breakfast and lunch meals in the first place. Skipping breakfast also increases the risk of binge eating on junk food later in the day.

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