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For Maximum Fat Loss, Watch the Clock
Feb 6This little-known technique for weight loss will very likely only require a very minor change to your current diet: If you have hit a plateau and are not getting the results you need, the concept of “nutritional timing” may be able to get your weight loss back on track.
This strategy for nutrition takes into account the natural peaks and valleys of your body’s natural energy throughout the day and eating appropriately.
When you wake up, your metabolism rises rapidly until sometime near the beginning of the afternoon, when it begins to drop. When your metabolism is highest, eat energy-dense foods that your body can easily assimilate into energy, and is less likely to store as fat.
If you feel your energy levels dropping, you can snack on foods that are less likely to be converted to fat by your body. For example, vegetables, lean protein and healthy mono- and poly- unsaturated fats can give you increased energy without pushing up your blood suger and storing more fat.
When you eat high-glycemic refined carbohydrates in the morning, when your metabolism is elevated, they will not boost your blood sugar levels as much, and will therefore not trigger as large a release of insulin, which is linked to diabetes and tells your body to store fat for energy. The same refined carbohydrates will being on a much more noticable insulin spike later in the day when your metabolism is running much slower.
This is the reason it is not wise to eat anything at all, but particularly refined carbs, within several hours of your bedtime, since the body becomes steadily less able to convert the consumed calories into energy and is much more likely to simply store them as body fat.
Still talking about timing of your meals, if you eat smaller, more frequent meals, about three to four hours apart, you will keep your metabolism running at a higher rate throughout the day. This will train your body’s metabolism to stay in a heightened fat-burning mode. You will still experience natural fluctuations in metabolism during the day, and your metabolism will still drop precipitously at night, but these smaller meals can at least smooth out some of the peaks and valleys you experience in the late morning and afternoon.
Just by following the simple concept of “nutritional timing,” you may be able to turn the tables on your diet and start experiencing the weight loss results you are after.
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