Eat 3 Meals Today (No Snacking)
Why
To allow your body to fully digest the food you ate at the last meal to help stabilize blood sugar and burn fat. Note: this is simply one approach to test out and each one of us are different. The details of the reasoning are discussed below.
Focus
Your body needs protein, carbohydrates, fats and sugars for total health, it is all about balance. To attempt to restrict any one food group can cause cravings and potential health problems.
(No Snacking)
To allow your body to fully digest the food you ate at the last meal to help stabilize blood sugar and burn fat. Note: this is simply one approach to test out and each one of us are different. The details of the reasoning are discussed below.
Focus
Your body needs protein, carbohydrates, fats and sugars for total health, it is all about balance. To attempt to restrict any one food group can cause cravings and potential health problems.
(No Snacking)
From John Douillard (former professional athlete who now practices Ayurvedic and Chiropractic Sports Medicine)
"Our media is incorrectly telling us that eating many small meals a day is a better way to stabilize mood and lose weight. If you are hypoglycemic and have unstable blood sugar, this only temporarily covers up symptoms. Eating six meals a day can never provide permanent blood sugar stability, because the body will become dependent on being fed every 2-3 hours. If a meal is missed, the blood sugar may crash again. If we want the body to burn fat, we must give it a reason. Why would the body burn its stored fat reserves if it is getting fed every 2-3 hours? When we eat this frequently, the body burns what it has just been fed and has no motivation to burn stored fat.
When you eat breakfast, and then nothing until lunch, and then nothing until supper, and then nothing until breakfast again, you provide a natural fast in between meals that will encourage fat metabolism. If you have a snack, even a healthy snack like a carrot, in between breakfast and lunch you will burn the carrot, but not any stored fat. If you have nothing between breakfast and lunch, your body will be forced to burn stored fat in order to get you through to lunch without a blood sugar crash. In the old days, folks had supper at 5 or 6pm and then ate nothing until breakfast, around 7am. It was common to go 13 hours without food and then break that fast (and thus reset fat metabolism) every day with "break-fast." This tradition has been in place for thousands of years around the world, until now – when we are the heaviest we have ever been.
Eating 5-6 Meals a Day is Just Not Sustainable
In the name of trying to stabilize blood sugar levels, we have actually made the problem worse. After a few decades of eating six meals a day, our blood sugar levels have become more unstable. Yes, at first people feel better, but shortly thereafter the blood sugar issues become worse. Now folks are starving after 2-3 hours without food. If we needed food every 2-3 hours to survive, humans would simply be extinct."
Link to Weight Loss Plan
Link to Reference Weight Balancing Guide