Obesity is a worldwide epidemic.” “The children today are the first generation not expected to outlive their parents.” We hear about America’s ever-expanding waistline on the news, we read about it on the Internet, and see it in every day life.
We are bombarded with these mantras and statistics so frequently that as a society, we are becoming numb to their very meaning. With all of the information on diet and exercise available, something is terribly, terribly wrong. It is not a healthy lifestyle.
Eat about every 3 hours. This also requires some planning. Eating every three hours keeps the blood sugar/insulin levels stable throughout the day, controls cravings, prevents binging, reduces fat storage and keeps the metabolism burning hot.
Since you hear the word “metabolism” quite frequently in conjunction with nutrition, let’s take a quick look at what it means. Basically, “metabolism” is the rate at which your body burns through food. When you hear that someone has a “fast metabolism,” this simply means that the person’s body is efficiently using the calories derived from food whether active or at rest.
Here is the thing; eating frequently makes you burn more calories. On the contrary, missing meals immediately slows the metabolism, triggers the body’s starvation response and thus sounds the death knell for fat burning. This will help you to burn calories.
Breakfast should be your largest meal and dinner your smallest. Because you are essentially fasting while you sleep, it is unlikely that your body will store the early morning meal as fat. Conversely, in the evening, the metabolism naturally slows down and is at its absolute slowest when you are asleep.
