Eat Less at Dinner
Attention dieters: Are you sick and tired of feeling hungry and exhausted by early afternoon? Fight daytime fatigue by following the “diet at dinner” philosophy. Instead of skimping on breakfast, the most important meal of the day, or lunch, the meal that takes you through to the end of the day, give yourself a break and boost your energy levels by eating a substantial breakfast and lunch and scaling down on dinner. After all, dinner takes place at the time of day that you’re winding down anyway. Your energy output is drastically decreasing, and there’s no need to stuff yourself if you’re going to bed in a couple hours. Although dinner is traditionally our largest meal in the Western lifestyle, this is more of a social custom than anything else. It doesn’t make sense to eat your largest meal at the end of the day if you’re trying to lose weight. Don’t diet at breakfast, and make sure you eat according to your hunger status at lunchtime. Then, when dinnertime rolls around, you won’t feel so hungry that you end up overeating. Take your dinner portions down a notch, and you may soon be tightening your belt buckle instead of loosening it.
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