What happens to your body if you skip a meal?

If you are on a diet and you think that skipping meals or stopping food you are approaching your goal, we are sorry to inform you that you are wrong. If your regimen is very strict and the anxieties could with you and you you hit a bingeThe worst thing you can do is try to compensate for your bad habits by stopping for lunch or dinner.

The decision to go without breakfast (also known as fasting or intermittent fasting), lunch or dinner has an opposite effect to what you believe. The body understands that it must reserve faster the calories who has ingested and activated a survival instinct, which makes get fatter faster.

When you stop eating, the body reserves all stored sugar (also known as glycogen). When these sugar stores are depleted, the body begins to burn fat. But to burn fat the body needs energy; that is, you will not lose weight if you stop eating, but on the contrary, you will not have energy to burn calories and your body will store what is left.

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Every time we eat something we secrete a small dose of insulin that helps us control weight. When we skip a meal, what happens is that we secrete a much higher dose of insulin and that "hyperglycemia" generates weight gain.

The single action of eating, eating food and metabolizing these causes calories to burn, so if the intake is small, that caloric expenditure is higher. That is why small meals throughout the day make you lose weight. When digesting food we consume calories and we satiate ourselves much more.

In conclusion: stopping eating is not a good option if you want to lose weight, quite the opposite.