Spiritual Weight Loss PDF eBook Free Download How To Transform Your Body & Reverse Aging PDF | Page 29

Chapter 2: Secrets of How the Body Really WorksChapter 2: Secrets of How the Body Really Works
For example, if your BMR is 2500 calories/day, but you eat only once a day and
consume all 2500 calories in one meal, you will probably gain weight, because by
eating all at once you are encouraging your body to store these calories as fat.
By contrast, if you eat the same amount (2500 calories), but divided into 5 meals
per day at 500 calories per meal, you will probably lose weight (or at least gain
less weight!), even though the amount of calories and the type of foods are the
same.
Similarly, the other foods you eat at the same time have a big effect on how
foods affect your body chemistry. For example, if you eat a sugary snack away
from other foods, it will likely promote more weight gain than that same snack
and same number of calories eaten in the presence of protein, fiber, and fat
which blunt the insulin response created by the sugary snack. (More information
is provided below in the section on the critical role of insulin in weight gain and
weight loss.)
Time of day also has an impact on how food will affect your body chemistry. It's
commonly known that bigger meals should be eaten earlier in the day, and that a
500 calorie meal eaten right before you go to sleep at night will promote more
weight gain than that same 500 calorie meal eaten first thing in the morning. (In
fact, eating as early as possible after waking up in the morning tends to speed up
your metabolism.)
Other factors that determine how foods affect you (in particular for how eating
carbohydrates affects you) include the level of glycogen stores in your body at
the time you are eating, as well as whether or not you are eating before or after
exercise. (The details of how all this fits together are presented later in this book.)
26