Frequent Meals
Look at any diet out there now that's been productive and you'll see the recommendation of eating 5-6 small meals to help rev up your metabolism and help you with your quest for weight loss.
While this is all ideal, many struggle with the thought of eating 5-6 times per day. Especially when they are so use to eating just one time per day. This can be a difficult adjustment to make to your eating.
You are probably thinking that if you eat 5-6 times you will gain weight because you're eating more. It's true that you are eating more , but the amount of calories per meal is much smaller than your ordinary meal.
One may not notice that with the foods and the portion sizes at restaurants you have several servings in one. Meaning in one sitting you could consume close to 1000 calories.
By breaking your meals from one big one to smaller meals you'd consume no more than 300 calories in one sitting most of the time.
Again change is difficult but you must be able to make small adjustments until the point you're able to reach the ultimate goal.
Take away tip: If you're use to eating 1-2 times a day, try to increase it to 3-4 and every 2 weeks gradually increase it some more till you've reach the point of 5-6 small meals. Take baby steps, and you'll find it much easier to make changes in your nutrition programs.
While this is all ideal, many struggle with the thought of eating 5-6 times per day. Especially when they are so use to eating just one time per day. This can be a difficult adjustment to make to your eating.
You are probably thinking that if you eat 5-6 times you will gain weight because you're eating more. It's true that you are eating more , but the amount of calories per meal is much smaller than your ordinary meal.
One may not notice that with the foods and the portion sizes at restaurants you have several servings in one. Meaning in one sitting you could consume close to 1000 calories.
By breaking your meals from one big one to smaller meals you'd consume no more than 300 calories in one sitting most of the time.
Again change is difficult but you must be able to make small adjustments until the point you're able to reach the ultimate goal.
Take away tip: If you're use to eating 1-2 times a day, try to increase it to 3-4 and every 2 weeks gradually increase it some more till you've reach the point of 5-6 small meals. Take baby steps, and you'll find it much easier to make changes in your nutrition programs.
