When do you tend to "over-eat"? The American standard today seems to be a small breakfast or no breakfast, then a slightly larger lunch followed by a pre-hibernation style dinner and then have someone else roll us off to bed. I would estimate that 50% or more of our daily calories are consumed during dinner. I love a good dinner myself; it's usually a time to finally relax and be with my wife. It's easy to sit and enjoy much food and much company. This is often when we make nutritional choices that we regret later.
I believer that calories are the same, no matter when you take them in. It doesn't matter if it's one meal a day or five. The problem with dinner is that it is often a time to over-eat because we seek comfort after a long day, we often have more options to choose from on the plate, and dinner is often social eating. If you ate hardly anything throughout the day, this isn't much a problem, but I know very few people who can make it until six o'clock without wanting something. I myself can't even make it to nine in the morning. We are in a rush so it's a bowl of cereal in the morning or a yogurt. Lunch might be a salad with some chicken a piece of fruit. Finally, dinner rolls around and most of us are thinking "finally, some real food!" and we pig out on all that we can see. Three or four hundred calories for the first two meals combined and then 2000+ for dinner. How will all that energy get expended while you are asleep?!
My suggestion is this: we turn the food triangle upside down and start with a hefty breakfast of meat, vegetables, and some fruit. Lunch rolls around and you consume a smaller size meal, and finally dinner resembles just enough food to quite the stomach rumble for about an hour our two. Go to bed slightly hungry. In the morning, you will have no problem wolfing down the omelet. This is especially important for those of you out there who skip breakfast completely. Learn to eat it! It is your friend and will supply you with energy for the day. 5-hour energy is for people who don't sleep or eat breakfast and that doesn't have to be you!
If you were going on a long road trip and you weren't sure when you'd be able to stop again, would you just dribble half a gallon into the gas tank or would you make sure that sucker is full? Your day is like a long trip and for some reason many of us prefer to run off fumes for the first half of the it. I have a hard time understanding this myself.
So if you have troubles in portion control during the evening, give this method a try! The worst thing that could happen is you have more energy during the day!
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| well, maybe no regrets here |
I believer that calories are the same, no matter when you take them in. It doesn't matter if it's one meal a day or five. The problem with dinner is that it is often a time to over-eat because we seek comfort after a long day, we often have more options to choose from on the plate, and dinner is often social eating. If you ate hardly anything throughout the day, this isn't much a problem, but I know very few people who can make it until six o'clock without wanting something. I myself can't even make it to nine in the morning. We are in a rush so it's a bowl of cereal in the morning or a yogurt. Lunch might be a salad with some chicken a piece of fruit. Finally, dinner rolls around and most of us are thinking "finally, some real food!" and we pig out on all that we can see. Three or four hundred calories for the first two meals combined and then 2000+ for dinner. How will all that energy get expended while you are asleep?!
My suggestion is this: we turn the food triangle upside down and start with a hefty breakfast of meat, vegetables, and some fruit. Lunch rolls around and you consume a smaller size meal, and finally dinner resembles just enough food to quite the stomach rumble for about an hour our two. Go to bed slightly hungry. In the morning, you will have no problem wolfing down the omelet. This is especially important for those of you out there who skip breakfast completely. Learn to eat it! It is your friend and will supply you with energy for the day. 5-hour energy is for people who don't sleep or eat breakfast and that doesn't have to be you!
If you were going on a long road trip and you weren't sure when you'd be able to stop again, would you just dribble half a gallon into the gas tank or would you make sure that sucker is full? Your day is like a long trip and for some reason many of us prefer to run off fumes for the first half of the it. I have a hard time understanding this myself.
So if you have troubles in portion control during the evening, give this method a try! The worst thing that could happen is you have more energy during the day!
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