Some time ago, a friend tried not to eat dinner for a month and lost weight 1 1 kg.
I am keen on studying various ways to lose weight. After I heard about it, I decided to try it myself. But I can't stand not eating dinner at all, so I stopped eating after dinner at 6 o'clock every night from last Tuesday. Although my weight has not changed so far, I began to go to bed early and get up early. Because if I don't go to bed early, I can't have dinner easily.
So can you lose weight without dinner? Can everyone lose weight without dinner? This is what this article will discuss today. Before we begin, let's look at another example.
Judy Koutsky shared her experience in prevention. It is worth noting that she did not give up dinner completely, but stopped eating within 2 hours before going to bed.
Judy Koutsky said that she can control her appetite and eat normally during the day, but she will feel very hungry at night.
In order to give up supper and stop indulging in eating before going to bed, she decided to try to stop eating two hours before going to bed and see what would happen.
Because she had to stop eating two hours before going to bed, Judy Kutsky decided to stop eating after 7 pm according to her rest time. She said, "I usually get up at 5: 30 or 6 o'clock every morning and go to bed before 9 o'clock in the evening, which means I can't eat from 7 o'clock in the evening. Although it was not easy, I decided to give it a try. "
After insisting on the challenge of "nothing after 7 pm" for a month, something really changed.
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The first thing I learned is that strict rules really work!
Usually, I have dinner with my children around 6 o'clock. In order to make this experiment successful, I must ensure that I finish my dinner at 7 o'clock. Of course, after dinner, I often want to eat something again. For the sake of health, I usually eat some cheese as dessert and some fruit at 8 o'clock. If I am in a bad mood that day, I will definitely eat more chocolate bars.
It's easier said than done to stop eating at 7 o'clock. "Don't eat after 7 o'clock" seems more difficult than "Don't eat before going to bed", but it is easier to do. Because in terms of time, you have made it clear that you will not eat anything after 7 o'clock.
A particularly good way is to brush your teeth immediately after eating, because once you brush your teeth, eating snacks means brushing again, but most people are too lazy to brush again.
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We often go out to eat with other couples, usually at 8 o'clock.
Generally, it's 10 after dinner, and it's just time to go to bed when you get home. If I go to a Mexican restaurant, I will specially order the best food recommended by the nutritionist. In this case, I really can't think of any way to keep me from eating for two hours before going to bed (except staying up late).
This month, I tried to suggest to my friends: Why not have dinner earlier? But no one responded. If you grew up in the Midwest, it is normal to have dinner at 6 pm, but if you live in new york, it becomes very difficult.
So this month, in order to stick to this experiment, I have more time to eat at home, which directly reduces the number of dining out!
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Although strict management of eating time is rigid, it is precisely because of this that my eating habits naturally began to change in a good direction.
Before, once I started eating cookies, I would eat a whole bag. This directly led me to just want to "eat one piece" at night and finally "eat it all". After starting this experiment, it must be admitted that this point has also been greatly improved.
After trying for a month, I got my family involved. Although it has exceeded the set period of 1 month, now I have formed the habit of not eating after 7 o'clock.
In the past, snacks were essential for children every night. Now they brush their teeth after dinner, and then read and sleep.
When all mothers know how difficult it is to get their children to brush their teeth and go to bed early at night, when the whole family eats nothing for two hours before going to bed, all this seems to come naturally.
(Note: The above content is the original edited and translated by Judy Kutzky in Prevention. )
Although Judy Kutzky's story shows us the changes brought by not eating anything after 7 o'clock-going to bed early and getting up early, giving up supper, and even driving the whole family to develop better living habits.
But more people are concerned about not eating at night or giving up dinner because of the need to lose weight.
Before discussing whether we should give up dinner during fat reduction, let's first understand that people get fat because they consume more calories than their body needs, and all the excess calories are converted into fat and stick to your stomach, ass and thighs. In short, as long as you consume less calories than your body needs, you lose weight.
Therefore, many people think that giving up dinner will reduce the intake of some calories, thus achieving the effect of losing weight. But in fact, skipping dinner may make you lose weight in a short time, but more effects are harmful to your health.
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In fact, our usual dinner accounts for about 30~40% of the total energy every day. If you eat so much suddenly, there are at least three hazards: it is easy to reduce basal metabolism, and once you return to normal diet and diet, it is particularly easy to rebound and is likely to be fatter than before. It is easy to cause nutritional deficiency. Hunger before going to bed affects sleep and gastrointestinal health.
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Remember that people with body mass index > 28 and body fat rate > 30% are seriously overweight. At this time, they need to strictly control their diet in order to lose weight, and they can skip dinner for a short time.
If you are losing weight recently, just eat until you are seven or eight full. Probably, when you are not hungry but still want to eat, you can stop talking. This will not only help you lose weight, but also reduce the burden on your stomach.
Dinner time, it is recommended to choose more than 3 hours before going to bed. For example, if you go to bed at ten o'clock, dinner will be arranged before seven o'clock.
As the saying goes, one bite is not fat, and all the fat ones are eaten by themselves. Eating some rice and drinking some beer in the evening is undoubtedly a demonic temptation.
Think about it, you get off work at 6 or 7 o'clock and get home at 7 or 8 o'clock, which may be only about 4 hours before your bedtime. At this time, it's past dinner time, but the midnight snack such as mutton kebabs, teppanyaki, cold noodles and pancake fruit is beckoning to you. At this time, do you think eating is a crime, and not eating is a kind of abuse to yourself?
What should I do at this time? The most important thing is what we just said-try to finish dinner or your snacks three hours before going to bed. Chew slowly when eating, even if you only eat a small amount of food, you will feel fuller. If you feel sick to your stomach, you can eat some full and energetic food, such as nuts, apples and cheese (be careful not to eat too much! ! ! ), these can also be eaten as snacks when you are greedy.
An interesting study shows that eating a small amount of snacks is similar to eating a large amount of snacks.
So you can eat something slowly to make yourself less hungry, but don't indulge yourself in eating and drinking. After all, a midnight snack that brings you short happiness will not only increase the burden on your stomach, but also make you deeply regret it (anyway, every time I eat too much at night, I will touch my stomach and wish I didn't eat so much).
Finally, I still want to remind you that our article is not to encourage skipping dinner, nor to advocate dieting to lose weight. Instead, I hope that for a healthy and regular life, from a more responsible point of view, you can arrange your diet within a few hours before going to bed.
In addition, if you want to lose weight, you still have to remember six words-three points to practice and seven points to eat.