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I usually skip breakfast? Is this bad? |
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If your question is referring to weight loss, yes. One of the best natural calorie burning tools you have is your digestive system. It takes 6-8 hours to absorb and fully digest a meal. This requires a ton of energy (calories burned). If you eat dinner at 7:00 pm, your digestive track will be functioning until around 3:00 am. Now if you get up and eat again a few hours later the whole process starts over. But, if you don't, two things will occur. First, your digestive system will lie dormant until you eat again, probably a full 9 hours later. This causes you to lose a large part of you basal metabolic rate (the amount of calories your body burns on its own). Second, your body thinks it's starving and will slow the rest of your metabolism down as a survival instinct. The end result is that you burn fewer calories naturally, making it harder for you to lose weight. |
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Is alcohol bad for losing weight? |
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It can be. For more information, check out our article entitled Alcohol's Effect on Losing Weight". |
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I'm trying to lose weight. Is fast food bad? |
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It depends on what kind of fast food you eat and how often you eat there. Fast food is typically high in calories and low in nutrition. But, quite a few fast food chains are incorporating healthy menus. Balance is the key here. If you love fast food and can't live without it, then learn how much of it you can eat and still lose the weight you want. Fatburn.com will help. We have a large database of fast food restaurants that will give you the information to make educated decisions. Under the "Find a food icon" available to fatburn.com members, simply type in a restaurant name like McDonalds, Baja Fresh, or Taco Bell, and that restaurant's entire menu and corresponding nutritional information will appear. Check it out! Thanks for the question. |
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What is bingeing and how can I tell if I have a problem? |
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To binge means an unrestrained and often excessive indulgence. We assume your question refers to binge eating. This becomes a problem when you're overweight or it leads to bulimia (bingeing and purging). The best way to find out if you have a problem is to consult your physician. Good luck. |
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I'm a yo-yo dieter. Is this harmful? |
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Yes. Yo yo dieting will send your body into defense mode. Through centuries of feast and famine, our bodies have developed a defense mechanism to stop them from starving to death. That defense is simply to slow down the body's basal metabolic rate (the amount of calories the body burns on a daily basis just by living). If this becomes a chronic state your body will just slow down permanently, waiting for the next time you go on a diet and starve it again. With a slower than normal basal metabolic rate it becomes nearly impossible to to lose weight. The key here is to have a consistent caloric deficit without starving your body. That means that you have to consume at least 1,000 to 1,200 calories per day no matter what. Learn how your body works by using fatburn.com and you will never yo yo again. |
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