The Lifestyle Guy's 4th Commandment

(4) Contrary to popular belief, to lose weight you must eat more often.

Unless your grossly obese, it’s a common mistake to believe weight that you have to “starve” yourself.

Not only is this wrong, it can be damn right dangerous.

Once you start “starving” the body of calories it automatically goes into “famine” mode. That is, it actually starts to slow down to conserve energy and the fuel that it uses for everyday functions, i.e. walking, talking, breathing, sleeping, is “lean” muscle tissue.

The fat is left alone as a reserve fuel because it is the slowest burning fuel in your body and becomes a precious commodity.

Eating little and often teaches the system that fuel i.e. food, is readily available, so there is no need to conserve fat stores. The effect of eating “little and often” (also by slightly increasing your protein intake and slightly reducing your carbohydrate intake) also creates a thermogenic effect within the body which raises body temperature, in essence you are raising your metabolism, which get’s you leaner quicker and helps you to burn calories.

What you also have to remember is that one pound of fat on your body, is literally one pound of fat, It serves no purpose and it does nothing for you, it is a complete “dead” weight that you are carrying around with you. In contrast, one pound of muscle on your body, burns an extra 50 x calories a day, even when you’re sleeping or sitting down relaxing.

Eating little and often also helps to keep your blood sugar nice and constant and even, so you have no “energy highs” quickly followed by “energy lows” and your body has a constant supply of the nutrients that it needs they are readily available as opposed to cannabilising lean muscle tissue for fuel and because you are feeding your body at regular intervals you immediately teach it that it has no need to conserve fat as fuel because you are supplying it with everything that it needs, even “good fat” so it quickly realises it has no need to conserve fat as fuel either, ergo, a fantastic metabolism and a wonderfully lean and trim body!