These days, the trending advice for weight loss is to maintain a calorie deficit. However, many people have this doubt: “I already eat very few calories and sometimes skip an entire meal, yet my weight does not go down. Why is that?”
Let us try to understand this with an example. Suppose water normally comes to your house through the tap, but for an entire day there is no water supply. What will you do the next day when water returns? Naturally, you will store three to four extra buckets, keeping them aside in case the water supply stops again.
The same process happens in our body. When we skip a meal, our body goes into stress, slows down the metabolism, and prevents energy from being spent. Moreover, the next time we eat, the body starts converting that food into fat and stores it first. Along with this, our hunger and cravings also increase.
This is why skipping meals does not result in weight loss. Real weight loss happens when we eat all three meals of the day and balance them in such a way that a healthy calorie deficit is maintained.
“Your body needs balance, not starvation,”
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