For years I have heard that people recommend eating 6 small meals a day. I tried it and it felt awful! In fact, I gained weight back then and that was definitely not the goal. For a long time I thought that I was not following my particular metabolism. I know people who feel like they need a snack between breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner and others who prefer to graze all day. While I don’t tell people they can’t snack, on Today is Still the Day, I do talk about this:
“One of our goals on this plan is to go from being a sugar burner to a fat burner. An effective strategy is to stop snacking between meals because every time you eat, you increase your insulin levels, which prevents the burning of fat and stimulates fat storage. Eating between meals creates insulin resistance, so I highly recommend cutting out snacking and eating properly structured meals. ” P. 62
I’m talking about eating properly structured meals that include foods of the highest quality of each of the three macronutrients: protein, carbohydrates, and fat. Carbohydrates come primarily from non-starchy, fiber-rich vegetables, and fats are healthy fats from olive, avocado, hemp, and flax oils, grass butter, and coconut oil, as well as nuts, seeds, olives, avocados, and animal meat. grass fed. and finished animals.
When you really nourish your body on a cellular level, you will find that you are not looking for snacks because you are really satisfied. Well-structured meals deactivate hunger hormones and normalize blood sugar and insulin levels.
Eating consistently throughout the day sets you up for exhaustion and premature aging, as well as burning less fat, and here’s why:
When you eat, the digestion process begins. This requires your body to spend time and energy breaking down that food into molecules that can be absorbed and used. Complete digestion usually takes six hours or more. When you eat between meals, you’re in effect asking your body to restart a process that it hasn’t completed since the last time you ate. This leads to weight gain because when your body cannot absorb and use food, it stores it as fat. Additionally, restarting the digestion process with snacks reduces your body’s ability to burn fat between meals because there is almost no time “between meals.”
That makes sense, don’t you agree? And I haven’t even mentioned the quality of most “sandwiches,” which are generally high-carb junk food. But it is true even if they are healthy foods. This is why intermittent fasting, which restricts your eating to one or two meals within a short period of time, is so effective. It gives your body the downtime it needs to process the fuel you put into it.