Dinner the 5th Meal

Dinner is usually the last meal of the day and should be eaten about 3 hours before you go to bed. Now, a bad habit that we all have is to over eat consistently at this meal. We all have made this the biggest meal of our day sometime in our lives. Let me tell you now that this is not a good idea. Why you ask. What do you do after you eat this big meal? More than likely not much. Maybe sit in front of the computer or TV. You’re home and you had a long day and all you want to do is relax, right? You are not really burning a lot of calories doing that. So let’s make this easy math, say you have a meal that is made up of 365 calories, and then you sit and watch TV. for the next three hours and burn 150 calories. You still have and excess of 215 calories and now you’re going to bed. Those calories are going to be stored by your body, because this is the one time during your day you will not be eating every three hours so your body will go into what is called starvation mode. There is no getting around this mode it has been around since caveman days. What you can do is eat fewer calories at dinner, instead 365 calories you eat 300 and you burn 150 calories, now you will only be left with 150 instead or 215. Add a brisk 30-40 min walk an hour after dinner and you can easily burn most of that 150, maybe even more.

Making a few slight changes can make all the difference. Make it a goal to NOT OVER EAT at this meal. Then add to that by doing something active to help burn off a few of those extra calories.