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Message Replying To From anne, Age 17 to clear up some myths about weight loss that are mentioned here pretty regularly, i got this off of www.goaskalice.com which is a great website and there's also a book i'm reading...calorie consumption at different times of day- eating at night?One aspect of weight management that is vital to understand is that we gain and lose weight over periods of time and weeks, months, years and not hour by hour. We would need to take in substantially more calories than we expend, over time, to gain weight.Another important fact of metabolism is that our bodies do not stop working, even when we are sleeping! Hearts are beating, blood is circulating, lungs are functioning, brains are even working. This all takes energy and meaning we are still burning calories... (Click here to see rest of message). |