Why Eating will help you lose Weight

Imagine your body as a steamship. How does the steamship keep moving? By burning fuel in a furnace. If you stop feeding the furnace, the ship stops moving. This is exactly how our bodies work. The KEY TO LOSING WEIGHT IS TO EAT. It's called a metabolism folks. If you starve yourself, your metabolism slows down. You want a fast metabolism because the higher the metabolism, the more calories are burned.

If you don't know by now, but there have been studies shown that people who skip breakfast are more likely to be overweight. Why? You might have thought skipping breakfast would mean a lower calorie count at the end of the day. WRONG. Because by skipping breakfast, their bodies are not in a state of "fuel burning". Your body has already gone into starvation mode when you sleep, so the "engine" has shut off. You need to turn on that engine by eating breakfast. Also, those who skip breakfast tend to eat a lot more later on, which means they consume more calories daily. So don't skip breakfast, it's the most important meal of the day.

Here's another trick to weight loss: Eating more meals....WHAT? Yea, by spreading out meals throughout the day from 3 to 5-6 smaller meals, you keep your engine on and it burns calories. By having 3 meals throughout the day, there is way too much time between meals. Your body thinks it's starving during that time and starts holding on to anything it can. Your body starts storing the food you ate previously as fat. It doesn't want to burn anything off because it fears that it won't get anymore food. So when you do decide to eat, the body is thinking that this meal is rare to come by, so it does its best to store the food as fat.
When you eat smaller meals throughout the day, your body is "tricked" into thinking that it will keep getting fed on a regular basis. It finds no need to store fat because it expects another "energy parcel" to come in just another few hours.

Get it now?

So find out how many calories you can eat a day. Find out how many hours your awake each day and divide your daily calorie allowance evenly throughout the day. Your last meal will be 3 hours before bedtime (this will be explained in a future post). Let's use an example:

Our old friend Bob has 1500 calories for his daily calorie intake. He goes to bed at 11pm and wakes up at 6am to get ready for work. So his first meal of the day will be at 6am, his last meal will be around 8pm. That leaves 14 hours that he can eat. That is about 3.5 hours between meals. Here is how he will divide his meals:
6 am: Breakfast (400 calories)
9:30am: Snack (100-200 calories)
1pm: Lunch (300-400 calories)
4:30pm: Snack (100-200 calories)
8pm: Dinner (400 calories)