Why does the body store fat when we skip meals?

Blame your ancestors! Human beings in the past developed storage mechanisms for times of famine. Dinnertime wasn't easy for your ancestors -food may have been plenty one season and scare the next, or even from one day to the next. In fact, until humans began to cultivate plants and animals they often went days, and in some cases weeks without a steady supply of food. To compensate for this, the human body developed ways to store food for times when none was available.

Unfortunately, our bodies are designed to store food in the form or fat. Most of us don't go for long periods without food, so we don't need the ability to store fat anymore, but these storage mechanisms are still present. This means that when you take in an excess of calories or go for a long period without eating and then pig out, your body will store fat.

The good news is that you can rewire your body. If you wan to disable your fat-storage mechanisms, you've got to supply your body with regular meals every two to three hours, so it never thinks food is scarce.