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You do know your body's metabolism slows down while you're sleeping, right? That's kind of the point we're making here.

Yes. While you're sleeping you're burning less of the crap in your body, and what isn't burnt off gets stored for later use. You want to limit how much your body is storing, and in fact want to burn off what is already stored through eating less calories and forcing your body to use up it's stored supplies. So take in less when your body is doing less, and more when it's doing more to maximize the amount burned overall.

Here's some reading on it.

Edited, Aug 25th 2011 12:21pm by lolgaxe

You also shouldn't completely rule out treats for yourself, either. My coworker (who also works as a personal trainer) recommends that her clients have one "sin meal" a week - go ahead and have the fast food for lunch, or go out to a cocktail party on saturday and graze away on niblets. One quickie burst of extra calories a week will keep your body from getting too complacent with your reduced calories the rest of the time, and help prevent a metabolism slowdown.

Also, if you know you're allowed to relax your vigilence at least once a week, it becomes easier to stick to the reduced calorie foods throughout the rest of the time. (Just plan ahead - don't give into the brownie impulse on Wednesday when you know you've already got dinner plans on Friday.)

FWIW, I seem to recall that:

Protein for breakfast, carbs at lunch, fruits and veggies for dinner.


Not just, but weighted toward.

While I tend to agree that smaller meals at night are a reasonable idea, it's also relevant to point out that the longest gap in our meal cycle occurs while sleeping as well. That somewhat offsets the whole slower metabolism thing while sleeping.

IMO, it's a good idea not to eat a "huge" meal right before bed. But it's not necessary to have a huge meal for breakfast, medium for lunch, and small for dinner as some have suggested. IMO, unless you are engaged in heavy labor, eating a huge breakfast regularly is just as bad an idea. Most of us don't work in the fields all day anymore, so that's kinda not going to work either.

Best to have balanced meals spread out throughout the day, and even small snacks in between. Get your body used to regular calorie intake relative to calorie consumption, and it wont go into "save energy as fat for later" mode as often (or as much).

Cigarettes will fill the 2 hour gap. Come to the dark side.

And thus all progress ceased.

How old are you?

23

I guess my point is that throwing weight gain/loss (or lack thereof) under the broad umbrella of "metabolism" doesn't really explain anything. If I asked why do things fall to the ground, the answer isn't "physics"

Maybe I'm just grumbling because I'm a biochemistry major.
Based on family history/genetics I should of started getting fat around 16-18, not that I'm complaining too much.

Not if he's ectomorphic. We ectos have it easy, except when we want to get buff.

After two years of doing as little workout as possible and eating and drinking the unhealthiest stuff, I'm finally starting to notice a shift in the fat:muscle ratio. Getting a bit of a beer gut, but I imagine it'll go away now that school's started and I have to walk an hour a day.