A case of the fats

You're always told not to skip breakfast, it's the most important meal of the day. Did anyone ever tell you why?

It seems easy to just starve yourself of calories. How come this dieting tip doesn't work in the long run? Starving yourself simply slows down your metabolism. Skipping meals in the beginning of the day will only sabotage your goal to lose weight because you'll end up binging later on in the day and it slows down your metabolism.

Studies show that eating the majority of your food earlier in the day will help you to lose weight, from www. scienceblog.com, a University of Texas at El Paso researcher says, "morning meals satisfy our hunger better and seem to reduce overindulgence throughout the day, bolstering the importance of breakfast in controlling our weight."

It's not magical, it's practical. Start your day with a substantial breakfast and eat small portions of healthy and satisfying snacks through out the day. www.mayoclinic.com says, "That's why if you try so-called starvation diets, your body compensates by slowing down these bodily processes and conserving calories for survival."

Your metabolism works to digest your food but if you're not sticking food in there then it goes into starvation mode. You're body begins to compensate for all of those times you starved yourself. By starving yourself, you confuse your body and it starts converting those calories into fat.

The best way to lose weight is to regulate your metabolism and the best way to regulate is your metabolism is by exercising and eating frequent but smaller, healthier portions of food.