If your goal is to lose fat, you want fast results.
Right?
Not sure why anyone would want to lose fat slowly.
Anyways…
Your body begins burning fat depending on when and what you eat.
Let me explain.
Typically, it takes your body 10-12 hours after your last meal before it switches over to burning stored fat for energy.
During those 10-12 hours, it uses your last meal for energy.
So if you had breakfast at 8:00 a.m., you’ll start burning fat around 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
And that’s if you don’t eat anything after breakfast.
Does that make sense?
Here’s the reality.
Most people don’t burn fat during the day due to constant snacking.
Let’s say you have breakfast at 8:00 a.m., lunch at 12:00 p.m., and dinner at 7:00 pm.
In this scenario, you don’t allow your body to enter the fat-burning state because you don’t go 10-12 hours without eating.
Are you following me?
If your last meal is dinner at 7:00 p.m., you’ll start burning fat around 5:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.
Let’s do the math.
If you eat breakfast the next day at 8:00 a.m., you’ll give your body 1-3 hours to burn fat.
Did I lose you?
From 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. the next day, you go 13 hours without eating.
That’s 1-3 hours of pure fat-burning.
But while 1-3 hours of fat-burning is good, I’m sure you’d like to increase that number.
Right?
This brings me to my next point.
Why you should eat breakfast later and dinner earlier
Now that you know it takes 10-12 hours to start burning fat, what’s the smart thing to do?
Help your body spend MORE time burning fat.
How?
By eating breakfast later and dinner earlier.
So instead of eating breakfast every day at 8:00 a.m., start having it at 9:00 a.m. (1 hour later)
And instead of eating dinner at 7:00 p.m., have it at 6:00 p.m. (1 hour earlier)
This gives you an additional two hours of fat-burning every day.
That’s 14 hours per week, and 56 hours per month.
Beautiful!
How much faster will you lose fat by giving your body an additional 56 hours of fat-burning per month?
The answer is simple.
The real way to maximize fat-burning
To get fast results, you need to maximize how long you’re in fat-burning mode.
What’s the best way to do this?
Have breakfast as late as possible and dinner as early as possible.
For example, I eat breakfast/lunch daily at 12:00 p.m. and dinner at 5:00 p.m.
By doing so, I give my body about 7 hours to burn fat.
You do the math.
I also get to have bigger meals since I have a smaller eating window. (6 hours)
Instead of snacking all day like a chipmunk, I enjoy two big satisfying meals.
But you don’t have to start off with an eating schedule like mine.
You’ll still make AMAZING fat loss progress by eating breakfast a little later and dinner a little earlier.
You can slowly start extending how long you wait before eating breakfast and how early you have dinner as the weeks go by.
How to enter the fat-burning state faster
So I mentioned that it takes 10-12 hours to start burning fat.
But what determines that?
The size of your last meal and the macro-nutrients.
Carbohydrates are the WORSE macro-nutrient because it delays your body from entering fat-burning mode far more than protein and fat.
Carbohydrates spike insulin which immediately stops fat-burning.
Do your best not to have any carbohydrates for your last meal.
By doing so, you’ll enter the fat-burning stage 6-8 hours after your last meal.
But if you eat carbohydrates, it can take you up to 12-13 hours instead.
That’s a BIG difference in time.
The best meal to have for dinner is one that’s high fat/high protein.
Fat and protein also spike insulin, but nowhere near as high as carbohydrates.
If you follow my steak and eggs diet and combine it with what you learn in this article, fat will melt off you fast as hell.
Talk soon,
-Alex Writer
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