the myth, starvation mode, and dont eat before bed.

This is something that bothers me big time, when people make decisions without really thinking about them. Just because "someone says so" including myself. I am not here trying to tell anyone what to do, I am just providing information from what makes sense to me. If you look at a theory from different angles, all theories contradict each other. So how do we know which theories or ideas are best? We apply them and see how they work for us.

I think most myths arises due to the fact people jump to conclusions without all the puzzle pieces. I think this is how the theory came in to place.

1. Starvation mode - I used to believe this theory, you know what happened? I got fatter. The theory is, if you don't eat enough calories, your metabolism will slow down, because your body doesn't know when it will eat again, so it turns everything in to fat, because fat is the primary fuel for humans.
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What happens if you don't eat enough to maintain your current body weight? Your body has to adjust to a lower caloric level, stripping the body of muscle, since you don't have enough calories to maintain the muscle it will disappear. What happens when you have lower levels of muscle mass??? you burn less calories. If you maintain that caloric intake, you'll be fine, if you increase your calories higher(for example you went on a crash diet, now resume your old caloric intake) you will store fat like crazy, due to the fact you don't have the muscle mass to burn enough calories like before, so you'll get fatter than when you first started.

Eating at low caloric levels are very beneficial to weight loss, IF you know how to do it properly. For example eating very little one day, and over eating the next. When you don't eat, what happens to your body, what is hunger from a biological perspective? It's just a form of bodily stress. Imagine the cavemen back in the day, food was scares often. When you're hungry you're in the "fight or flight" mode... What does this do? Increase adrenaline levels, increase body responses, makes you more focused, and on top of that... it also increase GH levels (growth hormone) which is a very powerful biochemical which burns fat and preserves muscle tissue. Does it make sense that when you're hungry, get rid of the most essential part of your body muscle mass??? NO. It does its best to preserve it when you're hungry. Being hungry also increases IGF-1(Insulin Like Growth Factor - 1) receptors in the body. So your body is more prone to muscle growth, with the GH??? That is the supreme steroid stack used by professional body builders, we're doing the same thing, but with our diet instead of artificial drugs. IGF-1 is found in mothers breast milk, that's why babies grow so fast.

Back to the cavemen, where human biology began. You think back in the day cavemen where eating 6 times a day? They couldn't even if they wanted to. When food is scares they barely ate, if they ate at all, then when they got a hunt, they would pig out. Ever consider this is how our bodies work? You think a hunter is going to go and hunt after a huge breakfast? Myth: breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Humans are designed to eat a big meal at night. Why you think most parties are designed around dinner, gatherings at dinner time. Compared to breakfast... I don't ever remember hearing "we're having a breakfast party. Like i already mentioned when we don't eat it triggers the sympathetic nervous system(fight or flight response), which is very good to have during the day. More focus, better alertness, more responsiveness. You know what happens when you eat... it triggers the parasympathetic nervous system, the PNS, you know what this is responsible for? It's responsible for rest and recuperation. So when you eat, your body slows down, you get tired, groggy, because your body is recuperating... Do you think as humans we need to do this 6 times a day??(6 meals a day)??? NO, that's just ludicrous At what point do you want to be TIRED, and feel at easy and relax? during the day or at night? the answer is obvious. The best time to eat is AT NIGHT.. When does the body repair itself the most? during sleep, does it make sense not to eat at night, not providing your body with vital recovery protein, carbs, nutrients critical for muscle growth? Obviously not. I don't advise playing with these methods without proper education on how to apply them.
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