"Your are what you eat" is an old cliché but none the less true. Each and every day the choices we make about what we eat, and when we eat, can dramatically affect how we feel and live. Our body's respond to food based upon their needs. When we eat the wrong things at the wrong time, this makes our body do crazy things.

Let's look at the different times we eat. When we eat too late in the day we give out body mixed signals, we tell it "here is food, process it" and then go to bed and say "sleep". When we eat late and go to bed our body shuts down and says, "Extra food, must store it for leaner times" so your body stores most of what eat as fat and doesn't burn very much of it. Now even worse is if we eat late and it's the wrong food, say sugar or high fat, then body can change these type of food to fat quickly, and that is just what it does. Your body is just like you, it does what is easiest to maintain it's self. Before you go to bed, try eating within two hours of before you go to sleep. If you need to eat, eat a small amount, just enough to stop the cravings. Zero calorie foods or almost zero calorie foods are better before bed snacks.

Try to eat smaller meals and more often, make trade off if you can, example; I ate fast food for lunch, have a healthy low fat dinner and take a walk. Learn what food helps other food to be burned and not just stored as fat. Try and eat more natural food s than processed foods, yes I know quick and easy meals and food are our way of life today, but, processed foods and additives are killing us. Make extra meals on weekends and freeze them, just pop them into the microwave and bam a hot , homemade meal that is good for you.
Just as eating the wrong things at the wrong time is bad, so it not eating. Not eating for whatever reason it s a very bad idea. When you don't eat on regular bases, the body slows down, shuts down and conserves energy. The body thinks its starving and tries to survive, you burn far less calories. Then when you eat again the body stores as much as it can as fat because it doesn't know when it will have food again.

Food is the fuel of your body, if you put in bad fuel your body you will feel and perform poorly. When you put in good long running fuel your body, notorious food that will give you long term health, then you will be able to live a better longer life.