Eat 5-6 Meals a Day for Results!

Everyone who is looking to lose weight gets approached with a million different diets.  Either they are suggested to them or they find them on the Internet.  A lot of these diets are "FAD" diets that are designed to lose weight quickly.  The problem with these diets is you lose weight the wrong way.  These diets do usually work because what they do is limit your calorie intake in some way.  Either lo-carb by decreasing your calories from carbohydrates, or from paleo diet, eliminating calories from grains. Because after all if you want to lose weight you need to limit your calories intake and increase your calorie outtake.  Which is true to the most basic sense.  There are other equations that you have to worry about if you want to maintain your weight loss.  The biggest variable is you Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR).  This is the biggest key to keeping weight lost.  "FAD" diets will typically destroy your RMR, which will then make it that much harder to keep the weight off.  The way to lose weight while keeping your RMR high is to lose it SLOWLY.  Ah!! I said it SLOWLY.  No one wants to lose weight slowly, in fact people would take a magic pill and lose weight in an hour if it existed.  That is why "FAD" diets are soooooo popular because they work quickly.  The only problem is if you want to keep the weight off and remain healthy for your life you have to do it slowly.  By doing it slowly you will not completely crash your RMR and you will maintain the calories you burn at rest.  So now that I got you convinced to lose weight slowly....which has been a key message from good health enthusiast (not gurus) for years.  I am going to discuss to importance of eating 5-6 meals a day.

Eating 5-6 meals a day keeps your RMR at a high level thorough the day.  When your body digests food its core temperature goes up because it needs to work to utilize the food for energy.  When you eat only 1-2 times a day, which is the average for an American, you don't raise your core temperature and you lower you RMR.  So if you want to burn the most calories while sitting on your butt, eat every three hours.  PLEASE don't try FAD diets.  Although they may have worked in the pass or you have heard of these great results from friends, see how they are doing now and if they have kept the weight off.  Usually the answer is NO.  

This is your insulin which goes up after you eat and your glucagon which goes down when you havent ate for a long time.  Fed and Fasted states.  This is similar to when you eat your RMR goes up and when you dont eat it goes down.