Most people have been led to believe that eating carbs at night is doomsday when it comes to burning fat… However, what does the SCIENCE have to say about this? I think you’ll be shocked…
Can Eating The Majority Of Your Carbs At Night Help You Lose MORE Weight?
For years now, many have preached that you need to eat every few hours in order to “keep your metabolism firing” and to stop eating 2-3 hours before bed to burn more fat. Yet, it wasn’t until recently when the Journal of Obesity tested this notion out.
Researchers from Israel took two different groups of people and put them on a diet for 6-months.
Each group consumed the same amount of calories, proteins, carbs, and fats but the researchers distributed the carbohydrates very differently.
Group A ate their carbs every few hours throughout the day.
Group B ate 80% of their carbohydrates at night.
After the 6-month experiment was finished, the results were shocking…
Not only did Group B, who at the majority of their carbs at night, lose “significantly more weight and body fat” than the control group, they also felt less hungry throughout the experiment than Group A.
That’s right, the group who ate the majority of their carbs at night instead of throughout the day felt LESS hungry.
Now why is that?
According to doctor Layne Norton:
“When you eat small amounts of carbs frequently, you are basically titrating in glucose to your system. To dispose of this glucose, your body releases insulin to drive blood glucose into cells.
Over-secretion of insulin, however, may cause hunger to rise (typically about 2-3 hours post meal, the approximate time course of an insulin response), but—no problem—you are eating every 2-3 hours anyway, right? Just titrate in some more glucose. Unfortunately this makes you crave and consume glucose like clockwork. It tricks many people into thinking that they need carbs every 2-3 hours or they would be hungry when, in fact, the opposite is true.”
In other words, by eating carbs every 2-3 hours, you are training your body to rely on carbs in order to maintain your blood glucose levels.
However, by spreading your carbs out and eating the majority at night, your body will quickly be able to adjust and still burn fat (often times even faster than before), while feeling less hungry.
Plus, who doesn’t want to feast on a bunch of carbohydrates at night?!
On the next page below, you’re going to learn about how we eat tons of carbs weekly (and even at night) to burn more fat…
To learn all about it, just click the ‘NEXT PAGE‘ button below…
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References:
Sofer S, Eliraz A, Kaplan S, Voet H, Fink G, Kima T, Madar Z. Greater weight loss and hormonal changes after 6 months diet with carbohydrates eaten mostly at dinner. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2011 Oct;19(10):2006-14.