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Worried about those extra kilos in your body? Read this!

August 6, 2008

Thinking of incorporating diet charts into your lifestyle for shedding the extra kilos from your body? Then think again! Remember that diet too comes with its fair share of dos and don’ts. At times, we often follow various misconceptions related to diet for reducing our body weight. But it is very important to break them for having a better health.

Do you think that eating at night can add more calories to your body? Then think again! Remember that whether you pile on weight or not depends upon your total intake over a period of 24 hours or more. It hardly matters which part of whole day you eat your food. As long as you keep your calories intake within limits the time of day doesn’t matter. You can have your food whenever the hunger strikes your stomach.

It may be true that the fat takes much longer time than other foodstuffs to get digested in your body. However, it is also the least satiating of all food groups. Hence, it won’t make you feel full for a longer period of time. So, better avoid it. Rather you can feed yourself with carbohydrate and proteins to keep the hunger away from your body for longer period.

Do you think that skipping the meals can really benefit you in losing weight? Certainly not! Rather it makes you to eat more thus making you to gain more weight. So think on cutting on calories not your meals. Skipping a meal can make you even more hungry than otherwise which will ultimately lead to over eating during your next meal. Also, skipping meals slows down your metabolism rate of body. As a result, you end up losing fewer calories than you could have otherwise.


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