Do you skip meals to control your weight?
Skipping a meal is usually the first technique everyone does to lose weight. Usually, it’s breakfast but sometimes lunch as well. However, skipping a meal is not a good way to lose weight. Research found that those who cut out breakfast are 5 times more likely to gain weight.
Skipping a meal on the HCG diet will not increase your weight loss. In fact, it can make you fat. Protocol is protocol and you can’t outsmart the protocol. You can omit foods that you don’t feel like eating occasionally but don’t make it a habit especially during the very low-calorie phase. If you wish to omit something from your diet, you can remove the carbs but never the proteins.
What happens when you skip meals?
For most dieters, skipping meals can absolutely have a significant impact on the brain and body. Here’s what actually happens when you skip a meal.
- Your metabolism slows down
Skipping meals can cause your metabolism to slow down. Once your metabolism slows down you will gain weight or it will be harder for you to lose those unwanted weights. To make up for the loss of calories, your body will use the stored glucose in your muscle and this is not good.
To reeve up your metabolism, eat a small portion of nutritious foods throughout the day. If you are not the morning type of person, make it a habit to eat even a cup of Greek yogurt with berries in the morning. Keep a handful of healthy nuts with you if you are on the go too.
- You are likely to overeat on the next meal
The consequences of skipping meals can make you overeat on the next meal. When the “eat time” comes, your ghrelin “appetite-inducing” and leptin “appetite-suppressing” hormones will change to indicate that you are hungry. When you eat, you really eat a lot even passing the point of fullness or comfort. You are likely to eat more to make up for the loss of calories during the day.
- Your brain won’t get the fuel it needs
Your brain works 24/7 to keep you smart and safe. Even at rest, your brain is gobbling up around 20% of all your calories but if your brain isn’t getting the fuel it needs, it goes into a crisis of epic proportions. You are unable to focus. You feel irritable, confused, and shaky. You even have cold sweats with mad cravings for anything.
- Your blood sugar decreases
Running out of the house without having your breakfast will lead to a decrease in blood sugar. When you skip a meal, you alter the balance between food intake and insulin production. This causes a drop in your blood sugar level, which then causes an interruption in your ability to think straight and stay focus. Remember that your brain feeds on glucose to become 100% efficient.
- Your energy level drops
When you skip a meal your body will start to run low on immediate sugar supply. Once you’re low in blood sugar your energy level also drops making you feel weak, irritated, and sluggish.
If during the HCG diet, you feel like your energy level drops and you are too hungry towards the end of the day, even if you did not skip a meal, try to check your dose. Either it’s too low or too high.
- Unhealthier food choices
Another not so good consequence when you skip meals is the tendency to make unhealthier food choices. You tend to grab for more carbs and sugar because you are so hungry. Carbs and sugar can raise your blood sugar level to make you feel better quickly but these can be temporary only. Without proteins and fiber to temper the rise on glucose, your blood sugar level can spike and dip all over again. Keep in mind also that sugar is no way allowed on the HCG diet while carb, you can have them but your carb option is limited to 1 Grissini stick or Melba toast only.
- Early dinner which often leads to late-night snack
This is so true. When you deprive your body of the necessary nourishment during the day, you’ll end up having your dinner earlier on. Since your body is calorie deprived, your body will try to make up for the loss. You’ll end up eating more. Having an early dinner can also lead to a late-night snack (for late sleeper) because you will definitely get hungry again. This vicious cycle could be your downfall.
How skipping meals make you fat
When you skip a meal too often, your body will go into a survival mode. Your brain thinks “Maybe you’re not eating because there are not enough foods. It’s famine”. To protect your body, your brain will signal your adrenal gland to release the cortisol hormone and tell the body to store every extra calorie. Most of these stored fats go into your belly.
Skipping a meal on the HCG Diet can be very dangerous. Remember that you are on a super low-calorie intake already, so don’t think of skipping that too. It will do no good for your body, mind, and health. You won’t be able to lose weight too even if you have the hormone circulating in your body. As a prohormone, the HCG won’t do its job in stimulating other hormones in your body because your brain is quite busy doing other tricky stuff. After all, it thinks you are on the survival mode. To keep your brain fed:
- Your body cells start to crave for foods. Usually, you crave unhealthy foods like those that are high in carbs, fat, and sugary food because your brain actually makes them taste especially good. Now all attempts at eating healthy go out the door.
- When you binge on foods, you do not just binge on one food. You eat until you are so full and satisfied.
Do you skip meals to control your weight?
Skipping a meal is usually the first technique everyone does to lose weight. Usually, it’s breakfast but sometimes lunch as well. However, skipping a meal is not a good way to lose weight. Research found that those who cut out breakfast are 5 times more likely to gain weight.
Skipping a meal while on hcg injections will not increase your weight loss. In fact, it can make you fat. Protocol is protocol and you can’t outsmart the protocol. You can omit foods that you don’t feel like eating occasionally but don’t make it a habit especially during the very low-calorie phase. If you wish to omit something from your diet, you can remove the carbs but never the proteins.
What happens when you skip meals?
For most dieters, skipping meals can absolutely have a significant impact on the brain and body. Here’s what actually happens when you skip a meal.
- Your metabolism slows down
Skipping meals can cause your metabolism to slow down. Once your metabolism slows down you will gain weight or it will be harder for you to lose those unwanted weights. To make up for the loss of calories, your body will use the stored glucose in your muscle and this is not good.
To reeve up your metabolism, eat a small portion of nutritious foods throughout the day. If you are not the morning type of person, make it a habit to eat even a cup of Greek yogurt with berries in the morning. Keep a handful of healthy nuts with you if you are on the go too.
- You are likely to overeat on the next meal
The consequences of skipping meals can make you overeat on the next meal. When the “eat time” comes, your ghrelin “appetite-inducing” and leptin “appetite-suppressing” hormones will change to indicate that you are hungry. When you eat, you really eat a lot even passing the point of fullness or comfort. You are likely to eat more to make up for the loss of calories during the day.
- Your brain won’t get the fuel it needs
Your brain works 24/7 to keep you smart and safe. Even at rest, your brain is gobbling up around 20% of all your calories but if your brain isn’t getting the fuel it needs, it goes into a crisis of epic proportions. You are unable to focus. You feel irritable, confused, and shaky. You even have cold sweats with mad cravings for anything.
- Your blood sugar decreases
Running out of the house without having your breakfast will lead to a decrease in blood sugar. When you skip a meal, you alter the balance between food intake and insulin production. This causes a drop in your blood sugar level, which then causes an interruption in your ability to think straight and stay focus. Remember that your brain feeds on glucose to become 100% efficient.
- Your energy level drops
When you skip a meal your body will start to run low on immediate sugar supply. Once you’re low in blood sugar your energy level also drops making you feel weak, irritated, and sluggish.
If during the HCG diet, you feel like your energy level drops and you are too hungry towards the end of the day, even if you did not skip a meal, try to check your dose. Either it’s too low or too high.
- Unhealthier food choices
Another not so good consequence when you skip meals is the tendency to make unhealthier food choices. You tend to grab for more carbs and sugar because you are so hungry. Carbs and sugar can raise your blood sugar level to make you feel better quickly but these can be temporary only. Without proteins and fiber to temper the rise on glucose, your blood sugar level can spike and dip all over again. Keep in mind also that sugar is no way allowed on the HCG diet while carb, you can have them but your carb option is limited to 1 Grissini stick or Melba toast only.
- Early dinner which often leads to late-night snack
This is so true. When you deprive your body of the necessary nourishment during the day, you’ll end up having your dinner earlier on. Since your body is calorie deprived, your body will try to make up for the loss. You’ll end up eating more. Having an early dinner can also lead to a late-night snack (for late sleeper) because you will definitely get hungry again. This vicious cycle could be your downfall.
How skipping meals make you fat
When you skip a meal too often, your body will go into a survival mode. Your brain thinks “Maybe you’re not eating because there are not enough foods. It’s famine”. To protect your body, your brain will signal your adrenal gland to release the cortisol hormone and tell the body to store every extra calorie. Most of these stored fats go into your belly.
Skipping a meal on the HCG Diet can be very dangerous. Remember that you are on a super low-calorie intake already, so don’t think of skipping that too. It will do no good for your body, mind, and health. You won’t be able to lose weight too even if you have the hormone circulating in your body. As a prohormone, the HCG won’t do its job in stimulating other hormones in your body because your brain is quite busy doing other tricky stuff. After all, it thinks you are on the survival mode. To keep your brain fed:
- Your body cells start to crave for foods. Usually, you crave unhealthy foods like those that are high in carbs, fat, and sugary food because your brain actually makes them taste especially good. Now all attempts at eating healthy go out the door.
- When you binge on foods, you do not just binge on one food. You eat until you are so full and satisfied.
