NOCTURNAL EATING

Eating at night feeds the fat cell because your metabolism and caloric needs are lowest at night. The majority of us eat our largest meal at dinner and many top it off with snacking while watching TV. These are excess calories that our bodies do not need. The fact that 55 percent of the evening TV commercials are for food may send us wandering into the kitchen with "snack amnesia." As Virginia describes it, a commercial comes on for potato chips and she doesn't even realize that she has gotten up from the couch, grabbed the chips from the cupboard, sat back down, and devoured them—until the entire bag is empty. Most of the food you eat at night is not for your body, it's for your fat cells.

HIGH FAT INTAKE

A high fat intake and a large fat cell go hand in hand. Fat cells love fat and are undoubtedly more efficient at storing fat than at storing starch and protein. The more fat in your diet, the more likely it will become fat in your fat cell. It makes sense if we spend a moment thinking about it. If you eat a loaf of French bread, your body will use some of it (maybe one-third of the loaf) to function. The remaining two-thirds of the loaf needs to be converted to fat before it can be stored as fat in your fat cell. If you eat a stick of butter (yuck!), it doesn't need to be converted, it already is fat and more easily slips into a fat cell.

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