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You eat "three square" meals running around with your calorie-
a day counter book, you must instead pay
You regularly skip meals, attention to the types of food you
especially breakfast eat, the respective proportions of
each type, and how often you eat.
The Problem with This: Let's just call it meal patterning.
Restricting your food intake too By spreading your meals more
much leaves you hungry and evenly throughout the day, in five
downright irritable. (You know or six smaller meals, rather than
that!) When you restrict calories, two or three large meals (or an
such as when you start a traditional overindulgence in snacks whenever
"diet" or skip meals, the body you're hungry), you can maximize
instantly goes into "survival mode" the absorption of nutrients (so your
and sends very powerful signals, body can use more of the food you
telling your body to hoard fat and eat) and supply your body with a
your brain to find food fast. Right more stable (non-spiking) level of
now! Why? Because it thinks its insulin—levels your body can
starving, and it doesn't know when adequately manage—to keep your
it will get food again. Realistically, body from storing and trapping fat
you can expect to hold off your and steadily increase your
uncontrollable urges for only so metabolism throughout the day.
long before you give in. And voila,
instant weight return, plus some
extra bonus body fat.
METABOLIC
The bottom line: restricting foods, FACTOR #2
skipping meals, or eating only three
times a day, is the absolute worst Weight-training—Pack your gym
way to lose fat and will only bag
decrease your metabolism.
If you want to look and feel your
The Solution to Take Control:
best, while achieving your fat-loss
goals, you've got to exercise.
The key then with nutrition is to
work with your body, not against it. You're not in control if...
To eat smart, not less. Rather than
