Naturally, many people use this method to see the staged weight loss, and the weight loss is "successful" (if it becomes more and more difficult to lose weight after consideration, it will even rebound soon).
But! Is it really good to lose weight like this? Today, let's talk about not eating after noon.
First, let's understand two concepts:
Anabolic: the process by which the body synthesizes the food it eats into its body components (such as muscle, blood, etc.). )
Catabolism: The process by which the body breaks down body components into various wastes such as carbon dioxide and water.
Our body is like a sophisticated machine, which controls the balance of synthesis and decomposition through a series of complex things, such as hormone levels and blood sugar levels.
For example, the strength exercise that we often advocate recently is actually a kind of catabolism, which will tear muscle fibers. But at the same time, anabolism begins, and the body will try to repair and rebuild stronger muscles to cope with the strength load.
Because muscles consume more calories at rest, and muscle strength is closely related to health, the purpose of losing weight is to keep or even increase muscle mass as much as possible while losing excess fat. If you lose 20 Jin, of which 10 Jin is muscle, then believe me, you are losing a lot!
What does this have to do with not eating after noon?
In fact, not eating after noon, not eating (eating food with extremely low calories for two days a week) is a man-made lack of food.
At the same time, food shortage is not as notorious as imagined:
When our bodies are fasting, eating little, or exercising excessively, our bodies will produce hunger signals. In order to protect the body from collapse, it will strengthen anabolism, greatly improve the utilization efficiency of nutrients such as protein, and prevent the body from decomposing protein.
Insufficient diet and excessive exercise will force the human body to decompose-repair and build a stronger body to cope with a more hungry state.
Many scientific experiments show that intermittent light eating is good for health. It can:
1: reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes;
2. Adjust the cholesterol level and promote the body to use fat as an energy source;
3. Significantly increase the secretion of growth hormone and promote metabolism.
For example, some scientists have done experiments with mice. Through the periodic eating of insufficient food one day and excessive food the next, the mice's stress resistance, brain sensitivity and body's protective ability against insulin resistance have been improved. Life expectancy has also increased.
But ..... this time is limited, and the longest time should not exceed 24 hours, not more than once a week. Moreover, after insufficient eating, we should give adequate nutritional supplements to help the body repair and rebuild.