Weight Loss Outlined – Lose 20 Pounds Safely
Take care not to follow out-dated thinking when it comes to the optimal way to lose weight. A lot of people don’t keep up with modern research, for instance: Many of us feel guilty eating food between our meals because we’ve always been told that’s what puts on the weight. Is that actually the case?
The purists would have us believe that sticking to three nutritious meals a day is the way to drop the pounds. Today however we’re being told to increase that number if we want long-term weight reduction. Can this be right?
We would think more regular eating would mean weight gain, not loss. When we get that feeling of hunger between meals, we feel as though the pounds are falling off! Essentially though there’s more to it than that.
Our desire for food increases the longer we don’t eat. This means that when it does come round to meal time, our appetite is much bigger than normal. This can result in greater consumption than is good for us. This predominantly occurs with our last meal of the day. Then we end up with more food in our stomach at completely the wrong time – shortly before we go to bed!
If instead we altered our day and prepared six small ‘meals’, that hungry feeling never develops. Such frequent ingestion is recognised by the body. It starts to trust that it’s getting what it needs when it needs it, and so can allocate the right resources to the right areas.
The body hangs on to fat when it doesn’t get regular food, and allows it to build up around areas such as the waistline. So we end up keeping the weight on even though we go through long periods without any food!
It’s much easier to get more calories sooner (without over-eating) if we have small frequent meals. Then there’s much more chance the food will be processed efficiently, and not left to add to our weight. It is also much harder to keep a check on what we eat when we start a meal feeling famished.
Salads and ‘light choice’ options just do not cut it! We want stodgy carbo-loading food such as breads and pastas. These are fine for the quick hit to satisfy, but are not going to help with a weight loss program. In summation, the most comfortable and effective way to lose weight is to eat little and often.
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