Four Meals A Day Keep The Calories At Bay

You are sure to have read somewhere or have heard from
someone that eating four times a day, moderately, and
spreading out the mealtimes evenly is the correct way to
eat, irrespective of the fact you are on a diet or on a
weight loss program.

Well, there is a science behind eating four moderate meals
a day rather than two or three heavy meals and it is
important that you know how this kind of timely eating can
help you in your diet plans or in your weight training
program.

To understand this theory, you must understand metabolism.
Metabolism is the rate at which your body burns calories
and you will be surprised to know that your body burns
calories throughout the day, while you are at work or even
at rest – even when you are sleeping!

It is this metabolism that is the principle behind having
those four moderate meals everyday, evenly spaced out. If
you try to eat heavy meals at one time, say at breakfast,
thinking that you can compensate by skipping lunch, you are
wrong. What you eat in the morning will get digested in
2.5 to 3 hours and all the excess calories will end up
getting stored as body fat – they will not be kept aside
for your calorie requirement in the afternoon.

Now, contrast this scenario with the one where you take
four moderate meals every two-and-a-half hours or so. In
this case, you are consuming just sufficient calories to
keep you going for that much time, not extra. As a result,
whatever you have consumed would be burned before your next
meal and there would be no storage of excess calories as
body fat.

Therefore, if you want your diet plans or your weight
training program to succeed or even if you want to control
your overweight condition, it is important to consume only
the amount of food that yields calories just sufficient for
2.5 hours or so. Do not try to eat your lunch along with
breakfast.

Of course, before declaring your diet plan to be an
unqualified success, keep in mind that your
metabolism/metabolic rate depends on several factors such
as your genes, your diet and your eating habits and your
physical activity level.

Having said that, the benefits of such a diet are many if
coupled with the right kind of exercise – you will find
that this kind of diet keeps you light and refreshed. Your
metabolism will burn up your calories faster, leading to
weight loss and, above all, you will stay fit and healthy
both in mind and body.

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