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Eat More and Lose Weight
Eat more and lose weight. We keep hearing it, but is it really real? What’s the difference between eating the same amount of calories in one meal versus 3 or even 6 meals? Does it really make a difference?
One Meal, One Snack
Have you ever done this to lose weight? Have just coffee for breakfast, a soda for lunch, intending to cut out all those calories and just have dinner? Yeah, me too.
But have you also had this happen: about 2 or 3 in the afternoon you get soooo hungry that you have to have a nibble of something — a snack. That snack turns into grazing, and by the time dinner comes, you’re not hungry. Ahh, then about 8 or 9 PM you get hungry again. You didn’t eat dinner, so why not have a snack. And that snack turns into a binge. Argh!
Enter the Mini-Meal
In the latest cycle of dieting, eat more and lose weight has been the battle cry. But does it work? If so, how?
The idea is that whenever you eat, your body has to rev up its metabolism sightly, in order to digest the food. With small, frequent meals, your body has a chance to finish burning up one meal, then it’s time for another.
The book
The 3-Hour Diet (TM): How Low-Carb Diets Make You Fat and Timing Makes You Thin
talks about this subject, and insists that small, balanced, frequent meals are the ticket to losing the weight and keeping it off. It’s not counting calories or cutting carbs or anything like that.
For myself, eating 5 or 6 times a day helps me to lose the weight, because I don’t get ravenously hungry, so I’m more likely to eat sensibly.
What’s also nice is that I can eat a little more and still lose the weight, eating several small meals a day. Not a ton more, but on 1,300-1,400 I can lose 1 to 2 pounds a week. (In my book, that’s better than 3 meals a day and 1.200 calories.)
More Info on How to Eat More and Lose Weight
I found an article you might enjoy on SparkPeople, about this very subject. Hopefully you’ll find it both interesting and informative. Click here to check out the article.
Eat more and lose weight — for us all!
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