Weightloss outlined

Serial dieters can often get locked in the same way of thinking about weight loss, even if they constantly try new diets. Take this concept for example: There’s a belief in society that if we succumb to temptation and snack throughout the day, we’ll just get heavier and heavier! But is this strictly true?

The purists would have us believe that sticking to three nutritious meals a day is the way to drop the pounds. Today however we’re being told to increase that number if we want long-term weight reduction. Can this be right?

We would think more regular eating would mean weight gain, not loss. When we get that feeling of hunger between meals, we feel as though the pounds are falling off! Essentially though there’s more to it than that.

We often get really hungry if we have long gaps between each meal. So when eventually we do pick up the knife and fork, our craving is significant. This in turn can lead to us eating more than we would otherwise have done. An especially vulnerable meal for this is the evening meal. So a few hours before we go to bed, we’ve filled our body full of food.

If instead we altered our day and prepared six small ‘meals’, that hungry feeling never develops. Such frequent ingestion is recognised by the body. It starts to trust that it’s getting what it needs when it needs it, and so can allocate the right resources to the right areas.

The body hangs on to fat when it doesn’t get regular food, and allows it to build up around areas such as the waistline. So we end up keeping the weight on even though we go through long periods without any food!

We can get most of our calories much sooner in the day if we take five or six smaller meals. We avoid too much food being left in our system overnight if we’ve eaten in this way. If we start a meal feeling starving, we are also tempted to eat the wrong things.

With a rapacious appetite, we long for the ‘heaviest’ of foods. It’s the fries, pizzas, pasta and breads that appeal to us the most. They hit the spot momentarily, but will not help us to lose any weight. To wrap this up, if we do not go very long between each (small) meal, we will not get desperately hungry, but we will lose weight more effectively.

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