Eating Often For Better Health

Step 1 in Fit True Nutrition is to eat five to six small meals throughout the day. Don't worry about what. That's not until Step 2. The body has to get used to Step 1, and adapt to eating frequently first. Remember you aren't going to change any of the foods that you are already eating. The goal is to just change the number and portion sizes of your meals. That's it. Once you feel that it is a natural thing, then you have acquired a new healthy habit for the rest of your life.

When the body gets five to six meals a day evenly portioned and evenly spaced the metabolism ramps itself up. It isn't as prone to storing food as fat. It gives you more energy and burns more calories. During this first step some people actually find themselves increasing the amount of calories they eat throughout the day but begin losing weight and inches. This is because their metabolism ramps up so much that they are able to burn more calories. They hadn't even changed any of the foods they were eating.

Most people, unfortunately, don't eat three meals a day any more. The majority only eat two. And those are usually very unevenly portioned. Typically its a small breakfast of sorts and a fairly large dinner with garbage snacking in between. Terrible. Do you skip lunch? Well knock it off. And don't give me any of that "I-don't-have-time-you-don't-understand-I'm-a-(fill in the blank)" nonsense. It's a lame excuse. People have held your job and had busier schedules than you for centuries and still ate better so stop making excuses, find a way, and do it.

Take what you have for breakfast and then have another breakfast about three hours later? Or cut it in half and have half when you get up and half again two or three hours later. For lunch do the same thing. Cut it in half and eat half right away and half again two or three hours later. Don't want to cut your meals in half? Then use snack bars or protein shakes to get those in between meals in. I don't care what you eat, JUST EAT SOMETHING!

Now listen, I'm not a complete jerk. The goal is to try to eat five to six equally portioned equally spaced meals as best as you can. Your developing a new habit, so it may take three or four weeks. And it probably won't be perfect either. Maybe you'll find yourself only able to eat two hours after your lunch. That's OK. Maybe your dinner is a little smaller than the other meals because you find yourself less hungry at night. That's fine. What's important is that you get that metabolism ramped up by eating more often and well portioned meals. Do what you can, not what you can't.