Hunger makes you overeat
People who fast to lose weight or skip meals due to being busy often eat more than they need to make up for the food they missed. According to nutrition experts, the body needs to be provided with energy every 3-4 hours for the metabolism to take place continuously. When metabolism slows down and energy levels drop, you may experience dizziness, difficulty concentrating, stomach pain, sometimes irritability, headache, nausea, and sleep disturbances. If you fast for a long period of time, your blood sugar will drop, making you crave more carbohydrates and sugar. This is a bad habit for health and weight.
Body starvation does not help with weight loss
Many people think that eating nothing is the best way to lose weight. In fact, fasting only helps you lose some of the temporary weight, when you eat again, the weight will increase more than before. According to nutrition experts, when you fast or eat too little, your body will activate its emergency mode to save energy. At that time, the body stores fat and reduces the level of calories burned, the weight will increase but not decrease.
Hunger makes you crave unhealthy foods
When your body is starved, blood sugar levels drop, you tend to crave sugary and starchy foods. You also tend to eat anything in front of you, so it is difficult to control your weight, easily affecting your health.
Long-term starvation will cause you to suffer from metabolic disorders and be more susceptible to chronic intestinal diseases.
Hormone disruption
Two hormones that affect appetite are ghrelin and leptin. Ghrelin stimulates the appetite while leptin suppresses it. When you don’t eat for a long time, these two hormones will deteriorate because the brain learns to curb hunger according to lifestyle, so, you can just eat one meal a day without even experiencing any cravings. In the long run, you may experience anorexia.
Hunger is harmful to health
Short-term starvation makes you tired and irritable. In the long run, your health can be seriously affected, you are susceptible to digestive, stomach, liver, metabolic disorders …
