Question: Missed meals - how does this effect Leptin?
I’m thinking also that some people on occasion fast for a day....let’s say 1 out of 7...what does that do for Leptin - good or bad?
Yesterday, hubby and I were busy around the yard working...and therefore we missed supper...how does eating breakfast and lunch than skipping supper effect Leptin?
Byron:
Skipping a meal doesn’t matter unless you run out of energy and/or become ravenously hungry and then eat too much. If you are active, as you were, you may have kicked in a nice “fat burning” more and you will continue to burn a higher percentage of fat until the next time you eat. If you do this and you lose energy, your muscles become weak, you get dizzy or faint, etc. – then your system is crashing and you obviously need to eat.
I don’t have a problem with a one day fast every now and then. It may help clear out some fatty sludge in the blood and help leptin work better on subsequent days. Longer fasting will throw Leptin into “starvation” mode and make you prone to the yo-yo diet response, meaning extra weight gain as soon as fasting is over.
