I can't tell you how many times a week I have to explain to people about the correct way to eat in order to speed up metabolism and lose fat. Time after time, I run into people or hear about people who think that eating almost nothing maybe once or twice a day and practically starving themselves is the way to lose weight. This is not only unhealthy, but KILLS your metabolism and slows it down to the rate of a snail.
When you eat very infrequently like this, your body doesn't expect to get more food anytime soon so it goes ahead and stores what you do eat as fat, so that it will have something to use when it needs it. Your metabolism slows down and you burn off nothing. When these people do start to eat anything in excess of their crumbs they've been getting, their bodies blow up because their metabolism has slowed so much and everything gets stored as fat.
On top of these poor eating practices, a lot of these people seem to do lots of steady state cardio. This promotes muscle wasting since they have no fuel to use and burn off; which in turn kills metabolism and fat loss even more, since muscle is so important.
What you need to do for optimal fat loss and leanness is to eat a small to moderate sized meal around every 3 hours, 5 to 6 times a day. When you do this, your body expects more so it doesn't need to store things all of the time, and is able to use more of what you give it as fuel. This speeds up your metabolism and your body ends up doing things much more efficiently. Couple this with an effective exercise program and you will be a lean, fat burning machine.
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