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The notion of ‘eat more to lose weight’ seems wrong to most people. But here is what you risk if you try a starvation diet. You could damage all of your body’s weight management systems so severely that you are fighting obesity for the rest of your life. It is easy to avoid this damage and have your body healthy into retirement.

Simply, to lose weight, you need to boost your metabolic rate. And to boost your metabolic rate, one of the ways you can do this is to eat more often. If you don’t eat for three or more hours, your metabolic rate begins to slow down, and when your body doesn’t receive what it needs to function, it enters “starvation” mode, which is somewhat like hibernation.

When you’re in starvation mode, you are using a survival mechanism that slows down your metabolic rate so that your body will burn fat as slowly as possible. During times of actual starvation, this actually helps you survive because you will burn minimal energy and maintain minimal energy levels so that you survive under very harsh conditions. This is where fat is actually preserved — and that’s very good for survival in times of great hardship or famine.

Another thing that happens in this mode is that the production of insulin and other enzymes that stores the food as fat, is increased so when you have your next meal, more fat than usual is stored in the body. And finally when you don’t eat for more than 3 hours our appetite increases. You end up feeling full, like after Christmas dinner. This condition doesn’t promote fat burning at all. On the contrary, it decreases the metabolic rate and ensures that more fat is stored in the body.

Eat more Frequently To Lose Weight

If you want to lose weight fast, eat smaller portions, more frequently. If you eat every two hours, this is an ideal way to avoid overeating and keep your metabolic rate clipping along. You can snack on fruits and vegetables or other healthy snacks between meals, which will keep you full and satisfied and gave you the energy you need so that you won’t trigger your fat storing mode.

To follow this plan properly, you’re going to have to do a little planning. The next time you go shopping, buy some healthy things for snacks. For example, you could boil an egg and then mash with some cottage cheese or cream cheese on a stick of celery with fresh almonds as one great and healthy, filling snack. Get creative! Eat small snacks of something nutritious regularly so that you don’t get overly hungry and reach for junk food. Be sure you try to eat something small every two hours or so.

Smaller portions for a smaller gut

When you’re home, use a small plate, or you can also ask for a child’s serving if you’re in a restaurant. Start with soup for your meal and eat 80% of your food before four o’clock. Drink a glass of water 10 minutes before every meal or enjoy a piece of dark chocolate. Both of these things will dampen your appetite somewhat.

When done this way, your body will use the food you eat, but it will store food if you don’t use it. It’s not so much how much you eat, but when and how often you eat that matters when it comes to losing weight. That is in fact why you have to eat more to lose weight. Have a large breakfast, keep snacking through lunch, snack in the afternoon, and then have a very small meal at night. In fact, if you haven’t eaten in the last three hours, you could go get yourself something to eat now.

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