Sure, it may sound like a bit of contradiction to suggest that eating more often is the answer to getting slimmer, but in reality the idea of eating more often is the only way to speed up weight loss.
All of us understands what a calorie is and everybody knows that the best way to lose weight is to begin eating fewer calories per day. Right?
Well, not so fast…
The problem with this rule of thumb is that the human body does not burn calories based on a 24 hour day. In fact, our established 24 hour day is pretty much just an arbitrary interval of time that has absolutely no bearing on how your body burns calories.
You need to first understand that the human body burns calories in real time or, in other words, it burns calories as you eat them (it doesn’t burn calories based on a 24 hour in a day).
What’s the point? What this means is that your daily caloric intake is almost meaningless when viewed alone.
For example, take a typical dieter who skips breakfast but who then eats 900 calories for lunch, 900 calories for dinner and 300 calories for a late night snack for a total of 2,100 calories per day.
This dieter falsely thinks that their intake of 2,100 calories per day is the deciding factor in whether they lose weight or not but in reality the deciding factor is something totally different.
The deciding factor lies in how many calories that they eat per meal.
For example, if that same dieter took those 2,100 calories per day and divided them evenly into 6 meals (350 calories for 6 meals = 2,100 calories) — then their body would be able to burn much more of those daily calories throughout the day instead of in three big chunks.
Ultimately, the dieter would seriously increase their weight loss results if they did this.
How is this possible?
Because your body burns calories as you eat them, and if you feed your body too many calories at any single sitting then the excess calories from that sitting cannot get burned and may wind up stored as fat tissue.
However, if you were to eat fewer calories per sitting then your body has a better chance to burn all of those calories, and if your body burns all of the calories at any given meal then your body will be forced to begin burning stored fat tissue for any additional energy that it may need before your next meal (which equals fat loss for the hopeful dieter).
So if you eat fewer calories per meal but increase the number of meals throughout the day, then you can begin losing more weight while still eating the same number of calories per day (you’ll just be doing it via a greater number of meals each day).
The bottom line is that when a dieter uses this method of “mini meals” dieting, the overall calories consumed each day would be the same, but yet the dieter’s body would be able to more efficiently burn those calories on a per meal basis and thus the dieter will lose more weight each day.
Makes sense?
Give this method a try for a week and you be the judge.
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