Can I have one meal a day that lasts 8 hours???
Actually, for me it’s a three hour window. I get home at six and can eat until 9. :)
The key is that your body has no calorie intake for over 12 (preferrably 16) hours. That’s when it stops using blood sugar and uses fat for energy. It not only causes one to lose weight, but cleans out your whole system. It becomes like a daily detox.
When you do a lower carb diet, your appetite turns off when you don’t burn any calories (sit all day).
When you eat a higher carb diet, you are always hungry, even when you don’t burn calories.
Higher carb diets are much better for active people, but they are affected the same, in the end. If dieting on a high carb diet, you have perpetual hunger cravings (read up on Victoria’s Secret models and their constant unfulfilled hunger pangs).
Fondue.
You can have one meal that lasts 8 hours. The University of Chicago has done some studies and they found out that what you eat is less important than the time you don’t eat. In other words, you can eat what you want 5 days a week as long as you go two days without eating (that’s 2 24 hour fasts). Or have a small omelette on the two fasting days.
By fasting two days you lose weight. Our blood sugar goes way down. Your blood pressure and cholesterol stabilize at healthy levels. So, your body actually needs that no food time to house clean. It actually helps fortify against cancer and heart attacks.
Not eating for a while tells your body to start eating things other than food. So it goes after stored fat. Then it goes after under-used or under-performing cells. Fasting is a natural cycle for the body. And we have been denying our bodies that part of the cycle ever sense refrigeration. Breakfast is a construct that began in the late 1800’s And gained steam with better food availability and storage. Much of the past we were eating two meals depending on weather.
An additional sponsor of our collective weight problem is the advent of indoor plumbing. Just think of the issues with cooking and relieving your self in the days before indoor plumbing. For most of America that began in the late 1800’s. Before then you were going to odd houses and using chamber pots. Baths were once a week and took an hour to prepare.
Our world is very new. And our living habits are new. Moderation and balance are ok diets if you eat every other day. But they are not natural at all. Your body is not used to finding carbs for three quarters of the year. Dairy and wheat are new introductions to our diet. They came about 5000 years go. And not all of us could easily eat them. Beef and fish once a day is more natural for most Caucasians.