To skip a meal now is a very common thing or even can be considered as a trend, no matter it’s due to a lack of time or special diet regimen. If skipping meals becomes a habit for you than you need to know what will happen to your body.
1. Problems with digestion!
Because the body works during the whole day, when you skip a meal, some problems with the digestive system start to show and it’s unable to function properly. In order for your digestive system and metabolism to function properly, a regular 3 meals and 2 snacks are required a day.
2. Hormonal imbalance!
When you skip a meal, the levels of cortisol in our body increases an
d it causes anxiety. Also, the levels of insulin are increasing and decreasing instantly, which results in an unstable levels of blood sugar.
3. Storing of fat in the body!
When you skip a meal your body becomes confused and it thinks that you’re starving, and instead of burning the fat, it stores the fat to provide reserves for the period that follows.
4. Altered Perception
This maybe will come as a surprise to you, but if you skip a single meal than your perception on food changes. Then the brain creates a picture that the food isn’t a top priority at that moment, and that’s bad for your overall health.
5. Exhausted Organism
If you don’t eat regularly and you skip meals than the metabolism slows and you feel more exhausted. If you have regular meals, you’ll boost your metabolism and you will burn more calories.
6. Regular overeating
You should know that when you start to overeat you are in trouble because that’s the most dangerous phase. Before you go to bed, your body is exhausted and is hungry for calories, and that’s the time when you overeat. This usually results in weight gain and stomach ache.