If you need to lose weight, it probably seems wrong to eat more. However, it works to eat more simply because doing a starvation diet doesn’t work. That’s because you can damage your body irreparably (including your metabolism, which helps you burn calories), which will actually thwart your weight loss efforts, instead of helping them. And that, in fact, can lead to obesity. However, by following a few simple tips, you can have a healthy body AND metabolism well into your old age.
Simply, to lose weight, you need to boost your metabolic rate. And to boost your metabolic rate, one of the ways you can do this is to eat more often. If you don’t eat for three or more hours, your metabolic rate begins to slow down, and when your body doesn’t receive what it needs to function, it enters “starvation” mode, which is somewhat like hibernation.
This is a mode where starvation trigger is activated. Starvation trigger is a survival instinct that slows down the metabolic rate to ensure that body will burn fat as slow as possible so it will maintain the minimum energy level to survive over a period of time under harsh conditions. Hence this is the mode where fat is preserved.
During starvation mode, too, insulin and other enzymes that store the food is fat are increased so that when the next meal is eaten, you store more fat than usual from those calories. Finally, when you don’t eat for more than three hours, your appetite can increase. And because of that, you may overeat and feel overly full, just as you might after Christmas dinner. This condition actually discourages fat burning because it decreases your metabolic rate and helps ensure that more fat is stored in your body.
Eat more Frequently To Lose Weight
If you want to lose weight fast, eat smaller portions, more frequently. If you eat every two hours, this is an ideal way to avoid overeating and keep your metabolic rate clipping along. You can snack on fruits and vegetables or other healthy snacks between meals, which will keep you full and satisfied and gave you the energy you need so that you won’t trigger your fat storing mode.
You will need to do a little planning. The next time you shop, buy some healthy supplies for snacks. Try a boiled egg mashed with cottage cheese or cream cheese on a stick of celery with fresh almonds. Get creative and always have some small snack available so that you don’t reach for me junk food snack. Eat something every two hours.
Smaller portions for a smaller gut
At home use a small plate or if in a restaurant, ask for child’s size serving. Have a broth soup to start the meal. Try to get 80% off your food eaten before four o’clock. Have a glass of water 10 minutes before each meal or have a piece of dark chocolate. Both of these ideas will take the edge off your appetite.
When done this way, your body will use the food you eat, but it will store food if you don’t use it. It’s not so much how much you eat, but when and how often you eat that matters when it comes to losing weight. That is in fact why you have to eat more to lose weight. Have a large breakfast, keep snacking through lunch, snack in the afternoon, and then have a very small meal at night. In fact, if you haven’t eaten in the last three hours, you could go get yourself something to eat now.
