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Several theories have been fuelled by social media that eating at a certain time causes you to lose or gain weight. Nothing could be more deceptive. Equally important is what you eat, how many calories you get out of that meal and how you are spending them depending on your body-burning capacity at several times of the day. One gram of fat and one gram of carbohydrate give you around nine calories, whereas one gram of protein gives you around 4.5 calories. So, your diet has to be balanced with all these three ingredients.
Keeping in mind how many calories are required for you to eat, the next step is to plan the right quantity and position them according to your activity graph. If you want to consume a lot of calories, do it during the day time when your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), the rate at which the amount of energy your body uses up while at rest for life-sustaining functions, is high. Your evening meals have to be low in calories because when you go to bed, your BMR goes down as the body follows the circadian rhythm.
The amount of the food you want to eat should have the right combination of carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins, fats, fibres and proteins. I would advise that you consider breakfast to be the best meal of the day because with overnight fasting and after passing stool, your sugars dip and studies in England show that the people who do not eat proper breakfast usually end up having digestive problems throughout the day.
A well-balanced breakfast will give you enough calories to start your day with and help you burn them out very quickly with your routine activities.
Some people take a shot of high-carbohydrate drinks too as a quick fix for this reason, though not very advisable. Your lunch again should be a well-balanced meal. If you like a heavy lunch, then have it between 1 and 2 pm when the body has a higher capacity to burn it. You should avoid too many fatty and spicy foods. Garlic and onion tend to produce more gas. So, you should be careful about what your system requires.
Also, you should finish eating between 7 and 8 pm in the evening so that you still have ample time to do activities until 10 pm and burn the load the meal imposes on you when you go to bed.
Every time you have a meal, you should be in a sitting or an erect position, so that gravity helps to take food down and the gas produced naturally is spontaneously passed out. You must drink eight glasses of water per day which facilitate the movement of the food and faeces in the intestine.
