You Need to Eat to Lose Weight- How to Speed Up Your Metabolism
If you want to lose weight, you have to eat. Sounds strange doesn’t it? Healthy, long-term weight loss can only be achieved through a diet and lifestyle change. The American way to eat is to eat a large meal, until our bellies are full. Then we don’t eat for another 6-8 hours, or maybe we don’t even eat at all. Visualize this….you light a fire in your fireplace to keep you warm. At first it burns nice and strong, but hours pass and you don’t add any wood to the fire. Eventually the fire fizzles and burns very slow.
Now imagine another scenario…you start your fire with a few pieces of wood, it’s blazing. In a couple of hours, before the fire has a chance to slow down too much, you through another 2-3 pieces of wood in it. What happens? It blazes again, nice and strong, burns the wood up real fast.
Think of your metabolism like a fire. The less you feed it, the slower it burns (calories). The more often you toss in a few small, sensible meals, it continues to blaze and burn off calories real quickly.
Don’t you hate those people who can eat whatever they want and never gain a pound? They have a fast metabolism. You may not, but you can train your metabolism to speed up, just by eating the right foods frequently.
This is why you always here people saying eat 5-6 small meals per day. Ok so what constitutes a small meal? Here are a few examples. Keep in mind portions, a portion healty portion should be the size of your fist or palm.
Examples of small meals:
- Breakfast- egg whites and oatmeal
- Lunch: sliced turkey, apples, broccoli
- Dinner: Salmon, brown rice, veggies
If you eat meals like this, you can eat 5-6 times a day. You will never feel hungry or deprived, your metabolism will be stimulated to burn calories efficiently, and you will lose weight.
Email me for more ’small meal’ ideas. njfitnessexpert@aol.com
