What happens to your body when you snack in between meals

If you want to be healthy, you should eat three times a day, every 5 hours. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. No snacks. 

Why? I'm gonna explain how your digestive system works.

After you eat something, it goes to your stomach. It starts digesting when you stop eating by going into small intestine. It takes around 3 hours for food to digest (if it's healthy plant based food, but meat and dairy products take longer). If you're constantly eating something, without waiting for previous food to digest, it's accumulating in your stomach and it rots. It can cause a lot of health issues.
So you have to wait 3 hours for food to digest and then extra 2 hours because stomach is a muscle that needs to rest just like all other muscles in your body.
Another thing that can disrupt digesting is drinking while eating, or immediately after your meal. Wait at least 1 hour.
And one more thing. Don't eat a lot for dinner and eat at least 3 hours before going to bed. If you eat right before going to bed, you won't burn all those calories so eating late makes you fat. Also you won't sleep well. I have a post on this blog about what to eat for dinner so you can check that out too.

I hope you now understand why I recommend eating this way and that hearing all these facts motivated you to change your eating habits for better. 😉