I am writing this because maybe can help someone else in my situation.
I absolutely wanted to lose weight but when I sat down to eat at lunch or dinner I couldn't restrain myself, I am very stressed because of my work so when I came home I saw food as a kind of reward.
Then last week I had to fast for 12 hours because of medical exams and I was surprised to see that I wasn't that hungry at the end, it was like a revelation and made me realize how much of my hunger is actually completely psychological.
I always heard about the importance of eating 5 meals at day so the idea of skipping lunch was crazy to me but reading online made me realize that maybe you can skip a meal and be absolutely fine.
I think that is an important concept to understand because sometimes I ate something I liked between the meals and then I ate also during lunchtime or dinnertime because I felt like I had to.
Something that surprised me about skipping lunch is that I thought I would eat a lot more at dinner, that is actually not the case.
Something about fasting for that many hours made me more happy about eating anything for dinner, I am happier to eat healthier things because when is dinnertime I am hungry for real, and it's actually a pretty nice feeling.
I know it's not probably the best to reduce your calories intake but I think it works for me, if anyone else is doing it or have any advice I am happy to hear it.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/h07qxi/i_am_cutting_down_my_calories_by_skipping_lunch/
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