We all have skipped meals, hoping that it would help reduce our calorie intake and help us to lose weight, but there is much controversy as to wether skipping meals can help us lose weight or not. These are the reasons why you should think twice before skipping a meal.

1. Lowered Energy

skipping meals creates fuel scarcity in your body thereby affecting the operation of every organ within the body .Skipping just a meal result in a drop in your body's blood sugar levels, making to feel generally tired. Without a steady supply of nutrients, your intellectual and emotional functioning also changes, resulting in bad and gloomy mood.

2. Lower Brain Power

The brain runs short of its supply of fuel,i.e glucose, within four to six hours of hunger. That’s because the glucose stored in the liver as glycogen, runs out during this time period. Due to this lack of glucose, the brain's activities such as decision making,mood control and memory become altered.

3. Low Nutrition

Skipping meals reduces amounts of nutrients which we consume, that are needed by our bodies to carryout its daily functions. When losing weight, our bodies require less calories, more protein and less fats. But skipping meals supplies you with smaller amounts of protein which is required to help you build muscles. Micronutrients like minerals and vitamins a usualy less in your body when you skip meals, thereby affecting the growth, development, disease prevention and overall well-being of the body.

4. Increased Risk of Diseases

When you start skip breakfast, you may be headed for trouble, says Leah Cahill, PhD, of the Harvard School of Public Health. One of Cahill's studies found that skipping breakfast frequently increases your risk of type 2 diabetes by 20%. Skipping breakfast can also result in an increased risk of heart disease.Our bodies need to be replenished with nutrients such as hormones especialy in the morning when the body had already fasted at night. An over time negletion of these dietry needs can lead to insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and blood pressure problems.

5 Calorie loading

Eating a heavy dinner after skipping meals during the day can lead to calorie loading, as the body had already adapted to a slower metabolism during the meal skipping period, and the burning of calories from the heavy dinner also continues at a slow pace, the objective of less calories would not be actualised but rather, more useless calories would be in your body due to this slow metabolism.

6.Lower Performance During Exercise

A morning workout without food is helpful, but a workout later in the day on an empty stomach is very hard to acomplish if not impossible. Even when you succeed in hitting the gym, exercising for long becomes inpossible as the body is low on blood sugar.