Logistics of Losing Weight

Timing is everything. You need to go to the grocery store. You know that it takes 10 minutes to get there. Depending on the time of day and the day of the week, you can estimate how long you will be in the store. Busy time --- you might be there for an hour to buy only 12 things.

Your digestion works the same way. When you eat has as much impact as what you eat. If you eat right before you go to bed, you can rest assured that what you ate will sit there and convert to stored fat.

How about how you start your day? Do you get up and get that hour of exercise out of the way and then rush to get to work and the first meal is lunch...a big lunch.

Do you still wonder why you have that belly fat? Well, I will tell you.

You have to have awake walking around time to get the most benefit from what you ate. You need your digestion to be working that food. You need to be using up the fat you already ate earlier. That fat goes for energy to fuel muscles. Not using muscles, stored fat.

The way you start your day sets the plan for the rest of the day. It is called breakfast because you break the fast of sleeping for 8 hours.

Can you exercise or run a mile on a full stomach -- not likely and not good for your heart. In the first place, digestion would come to a screeching halt when you started the exercise. Food would sit like a lump in your stomach.

In stead, how about a 20 minute work out, a shower and then a good healthy breakfast. Same hour but a whole lot healthier. You need to take in food to boost that metabolism and get started burning fat. If breakfast is a low fat meal, you are way ahead.

If you still want to run a couple of miles, do it in the evening before that meal. You rev up your metabolism with the run. Again a low fat meal will help burn off the stored fat. That evening meal should be small portions so that digestion is well on its way before you hit the bed.

The more fat you have in your evening meal, the more hours you need before going to sleep. A good rule is no eating 4 hours before bed. I heard that groan.

Your schedule just won't allow that timing. You don't get off work in time to eat, exercise and still have 4 hours before bed. In fact, you don't even get home until 10:00 at night. If you must skip a meal, make it supper. You can get more benefit from breakfast than you will ever get from supper.

Can you sleep with a growling hungry stomach---not likely and certainly not well. How about a small bowl of cereal with milk. That milk will help set the stage for sleep. Or maybe a bowl of soup. Just stay away from fried. That means no chips, no fries, no hamburger, no tacos. You only want to put enough food in your stomach to stop the growling. Remember, that food will not be digested if you go right to bed.

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