How do you gain weight by skipping meals?

[ambermarie]

Gain weight by skipping breakfast but I have a friend that eats hardly anything but doesn't gain weight and i've lost weight the last few days from not eating much... I've never gained weight from skipping meals.

I've been watching a 4 month old + my 16 month old and don't have time for food through out the day lol... Does it make you gain later or what?

[jimmy217]

yea it slows your metablism for one. And when you eat less it tells your body to store what little you do eat as pure fat. Ur pretty much confusing your body. Eat small amounts often and it will fix your problem. You say you don't have time but it take like literally one minute to eat a bananna. Eat somthing small and healthy every two hours or so.

[KERMlT]

When you don't eat your body goes into shock. It decides to store whatever you eat as fat since it doesn't know when the next meal will come. The best thing to do is to eat light snacks periodically throughout the day while working out. And water retention can make the numbers fluctuate.

[Allix93]

As long as you always burn more than you consume you will not gain weight

[mjmlag]

If you don't eat for breakfast, you'll be hungry for the rest of the day, so you'll eat more. Your body also goes into energy saving mode when you eat less, so you put on more fat when you do eat food.

[Anonymous]

If you just had a kid 4 months ago, you'd probably be losing weight now no matter what you did. Plus, from what I understand, breastfeeding causes weight loss.

[dx021]

technical term is Ketosis. google it.