Let's start with a conclusion: skipping dinner to lose weight is unreliable, effective in the short term and bound to rebound in the long term.

The problem of losing weight by skipping dinner is still controversial. Some people think that skipping dinner is a healthy behavior, because Buddhists have a tradition of "skipping food after noon", while some emperors in ancient China also had the habit of "skipping food after noon" in order to live forever. Modern medicine tends to think that skipping dinner is a very bad habit.

Generally speaking, it takes about four or five hours for food to be digested in the stomach. If we don't have dinner, the food at noon will be digested around 6 pm. However, after people go to sleep, the activity of the stomach and intestines will be reduced. This will lead to a long time interval from the end of lunch to sleep, during which people's stomach is actually still active, just less active than when there is food in the stomach. At this time, the stomach will still secrete gastric acid. If you don't eat dinner, the gastric acid in your stomach may cause damage to your stomach. If you don't eat dinner for a long time, you will get stomach trouble over time, which may even lead to serious consequences of gastric cancer. Therefore, the mainstream in the field of nutrition believes that dinner must be eaten.

sugar is the main energy source of the body, but its reserve in the body is very small. Adults have about 4g of sugar in their bodies, which can only last for 24 hours at most and be completely consumed. For the body, this is actually very dangerous.

If you don't eat dinner, the interval between lunch and breakfast the next day is more than ten hours, and there is not much sugar left, which has already begun to decompose protein to provide energy. But in this process, in fact, fat consumption has not increased much, because fat belongs to something that is particularly difficult to consume in the body, so it cannot be used for emergency. Moreover, when there is not much sugar left, we can't help but want to eat more, especially the food with high sugar and fat, and as a result, we eat more as soon as we eat it. In addition, because of the consumption of protein, the body's speed of fat metabolism slows down, which is not conducive to fat consumption. So the result of not eating dinner, can only deceive weighing scale, in fact, the body fat has not decreased much.