| While it's a major triumph to wean yourself off | | | | bowls of delicious but hardly nutritious ice cream. |
| snacking, don't get carried away and try to skip | | | | Plus, you're also screwing up your food monitor or |
| meals to lose weight. It won't work. You'll most | | | | contributing to what I sometimes refer to as a |
| likely find yourself hungry and then go back to | | | | "bad picker." When you suffer from a bad picker, |
| snacking -- usually not on something nutritious. | | | | it means you don't know how to pick your foods. |
| Or, you might lose some weight, but this isn't a | | | | Instead of choosing the right things to eat, you |
| healthy way of losing. Because the weight can | | | | dive for the foods of easy virtue. |
| come roaring back when your body goes into | | | | No, a banana split isn't the same thing as a meal, |
| "starvation" mode. | | | | even if the calories approximate one another's. |
| Some people aren't so hungry in the morning, and | | | | The nutrition isn't there. And because of its high |
| so they skip breakfast, thinking this might be a | | | | sugar content, the ice cream can make you feel |
| handy way to lose weight. But it's not so handy. | | | | even hungrier later, leading to more bad food |
| According to a study conducted in 2005, which | | | | choices. You get caught in a vicious circle. |
| was printed in the American Journal of Clinical | | | | Simply commit to eating well at meals. Have a |
| Nutrition, skipping breakfast can actually lead to | | | | healthy blend of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. |
| weight gain. In the study, those who skipped | | | | Over time, eating well and eating slowly will tame |
| breakfast ate more throughout the day than | | | | your hunger -- unless there's an underlying |
| those who didn't. | | | | emotional, environmental or physical issue that |
| A study of Northern Italian children in the same | | | | isn't being addressed. For example, if you're eating |
| year showed higher rates of obesity in those who | | | | out of stress or anxiety, if the ingredients in |
| skipped breakfast. Apparently, eating a little | | | | processed foods are having a bad effect on you, |
| something in the morning is better than nothing at | | | | or if you're suffering from some undetected |
| all. | | | | problem like candida overgrowth. |
| Don't skip lunch, either, otherwise you might | | | | But that's another story that I'll deal with in |
| succumb to late afternoon munchies that will ruin | | | | another article. For now, let's stick to making a |
| your appetite for a healthy and satisfying dinner. | | | | commitment to eating nutritious food at regular |
| And if you don't eat dinner, you may find yourself | | | | mealtimes. |
| raiding the freezer later for not one, but two | | | | |