Welcome to Cabral House Call.

I'm Steve Cabral, Board certified naturopathic doctor, and we are answering your training Thursday questions.

So let's get right into it. The first question today is, so Cassie asked, is there a best time of the day to lose weight?

And so it's a good question. So I guess I'm trying to understand if the question means is there

best time of the day to work out? Does your body lose more weight at certain times of the day?

So I'm going to try to answer it from a little variety of areas and hopefully that answers your question overall and if it doesn't of course just ask it again how you meant it.

So some people say is that it's best to work out first in the morning.

And they say that because your blood sugar is typically lower

and you can start to tap more into body fats.

That's, yeah, partially true.

I mean, absolutely, you can look at it that way.

Your blood sugar, hopefully hopefully will be at its lowest most likely in the morning when you first wake up

But it may also be there two to three hours after a meal as well. So I wouldn't worry about that as much. If I like people to

work out first thing in the morning because if they're able to then there is

nothing else then can take that priority and get in the way during the rest of

the day. If you plan your workout

for after work, well what if your family needs you or what if you have to stay at work longer?

What if a dinner pops up? Any of those things could derail you from that.

So one nice thing is of course if you are working out with a training partner, a personal trainer, a friend,

whoever it might be, you might make an appointment or a commitment to them.

And then of course you have that commitment.

I think that's obviously a great thing as well.

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