Outlined – How Can I Lose Weight Easily
When we want to lose weight, we should be careful not to rely on out-dated theories about dieting. For example – You might have always thought that a few snacks here and there are what lead to the slippery slope of weight gain. How true is this in reality?
The purists would have us believe that sticking to three nutritious meals a day is the way to drop the pounds. And yet this thinking is now being turned on its head by some. How can this be?
We would think more regular eating would mean weight gain, not loss. Leaving a big gap from one meal to the next makes us feel like we’re losing weight. In actual fact that’s not the case.
Not eating for many hours will leave us feeling starved. Which means that our appetite is massive when the next meal eventually comes. And we go on to eat more than we really need. An especially vulnerable meal for this is the evening meal. Then we’re in a position where we’re sitting down to relax but we’ve got a gut full of ‘fuel’.
If instead we altered our day and prepared six small ‘meals’, that hungry feeling never develops. Our body appreciates the regular food input. This means it knows it can send food efficiently through our system and dispose of waste.
Fat is retained by the body when it can’t be sure how long until the next meal. This is why people who starve themselves for long periods start to plateau with their weight loss.
By eating several meals before the end of the afternoon, our calorific intake is geared towards the earlier part of the day. This allows the body to use food to effectively power our system, and not retain excess supplies of fat. If we start a meal feeling starving, we are also tempted to eat the wrong things.
Low fat/carb options go out of the running! What seems most appealing are the carbo loaders like bread, chips and pastries. Which are not going to do anything for a would-be slimmer! To sum up, we are much more likely to feel satisfied AND lose weight if we eat small regular meals and avoid starvation tactics.