WHY DO PEOPLE GET FAT??

Hi there, you probably wonder what make you fat besides eating too many fatty foods...well there are a few other reasons as to why you are gaining those extra unwanted kilos. Over the next two days I am just going to highlight 3 of them.

1. Midnight snacking: 

I know a lot of us are guilty of this one, its so convenient for us right? We eat in the comfort of our beds or sneak to the kitchen late at night and its you and the fridge full of goodies and one else. Sounds good but unfortunately it affects us in ways we do not like.

-this is how you gain the extra weight: Our metabolism is the rate at which our body uses energy in order for the body to sustain itself. So this means that whenever we eat our body obtains calories from the food and converts it into energy and we in turn use that energy to do our daily activities like run, walk, swim, exercise etc. So it is safe to say our metabolism works faster while we are awake and active.

So eating just before you sleep or in the middle of the night is bad because your metabolism works much slower while you are asleep due to your body not being very active, I mean you sleep for goodness sake, you do not need so much energy!

-from energy to fat: So your body obtains energy from the midnight snacks you consume and while you sleep, the body uses what energy it needs and the rest of it is converted to fat.

-help what should I do to change this?: Most people eat their supper at 6pm which is the standard time for most people to eat their supper, so you could do that too or alternatively eat at least 3 hours before you sleep because the body will probably be  able to digest the food properly in that amount of time, and another thing to consider is why you wake up late at night in the first place? why is your sleep disturbed?

I will cover more reasons as to why you gain unwanted fat in my next post and how lack of sleep can make you gain weight and how that problem can be fixed :)