Healthy Eating Rule No 1

1. Smaller, More Frequent Meals – Eat Less Food More Often:


In my opinion, this is the most important factor to eating healthy. Eating
actually increases your metabolism and allows you to burn more fat. The
worst thing that anybody can do is eat a small breakfast, skip lunch, and then
have a large dinner - I call this the “traveling salesman diet”. Starving your
body of food (nutrition) for several hours tricks it into thinking that it is not
going to get food for a while. When your body does not receive nutrition for a
long period of time it will store calories as fat. If you eat frequently, then the
body uses the food for fuel more effectively, burning calories essentially as
they are consumed. Eating more frequently also keeps your body nourished,
feeling full, and reduces the changes that you will overeat.
How frequent do you need to eat then? Eat 4 or 5 meals spaced evenly
throughout the day. This would mean eating at 8 am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm, and
8pm. This may seem difficult at first, but this is the MOST IMPORTANT
RULE to healthy eating and isn’t that difficult once you begin following this way of eating. To make it simple, think of it this way – You will eat breakfast,
lunch, a small meal (or snack), dinner, and then another small meal (or
snack). The timing is up to you and based on your daily schedule, but keep in
mind that you should be eating something (a meal or healthy snack) every 2.5
– 3 hours. When you begin eating this way, it will seem like you are always
eating, but this is much healthier than starving yourself. When you starve
yourself, your body ends up holding on to the food you do eat and storing it as
fat. Remember, these meals should be smaller than the meals that you
would have if you only eat two meals per day.

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