EAT YOUR WAY TO A HEALTHY YOU

The idea behind eating several small meals a day isn’t to just make you lose weight. This method is meant to help you eat less throughout the day rather than stuffing yourself in the three main meals.

I feel this makes more sense. Instead of making a mad rush to that large meal and in turn also stressing out and then ending up eating heavy and unhealthy, it is better to take a healthy snack in between the main meals. That way when it’s time for your delicious meal, you can portion control it in a way that fits your desire to eat and your body’s requirement.

This does not negate any enjoyment, does not make you feel an unwanted restraint, but let’s you have more of an enjoyable control on your food intake. Is this not what getting fit is about? Reasonable amounts of exercise along with a reasonable amount of restraint towards how much food is consumed all at once- that’s the philosophy.

Allow your body to digest the food gradually and use up the energy “now” and avoid that point where the body decides to try to store up the excess energy as fat which is ultimately never used.

So, the theory is very simple. Eating 6 small meals a day will speed up your metabolism and help you burn much more fat than if you were to eat 3 bigger meals a day.

Now after having stated this I would also like to mention that in my experience and from what I’ve observed you also have to understand a few loop holes in changing the way you eat.

We are designed to thrive on eating when we are hungry and continuing to eat until we reach satisfaction. This can become a wrong habit if we don’t understand what is healthy snacking. Just eating frequently is not the aim but eating portioned or healthy is more important. 

Continuing to snack on small meals throughout the day seems to be impractical most of the time when you do not understand what the mid meals should include. For example; eating a fruit early in the morning or instead of having the fruit along with your breakfast you can have it after some time of having had your breakfast. Also instead of having your curd or yoghurt along with your lunch you can have it as a mid afternoon snack. So, this is actually as easy as it sounds. All you need is the awareness, the control and the positive desire and drive to achieve the health for your body.

It’s not just “how often” we eat during the day that’s going to help us keep the fat away, but also its “what we eat and how much of it” that we need to be careful about.

We just don’t want to believe that we can enjoy “eating correctly”. Dieting/ weight loss is the most insulted word and it not only makes it painful for us but abusive to our bodies.

The only way to lose weight is slowly and sensibly. “Good sleep, regular exercise and enjoying frequent healthy meals” is all we need to lose weight.

So, eat your way to fat loss and a healthy you.