It is a proven fact that eating smaller meals many more times a day is all around a healthier way to eat. In eating smaller meals more often, your metabolism stays up and you burn more fat. If you go longer periods between eating, your body goes into a starvation mode where it begins to store calories as fat, turning to burning lean muscle instead. Our bodies are naturally tuned to eating small meals many times per day; they function best under these conditions. You will stay more awake and alert, not feel weak and run down. You will not tire so easily nor stress so badly. You will not feel the hunger pangs, nor fall victim to the desire to fill yourself to the bursting point. You will be able to think clearer and have more stamina in your every day life if you change your eating habits to match your body chemistry.

The best time to eat is between two and a half to three hours anything over three and a half to four hours will kick in that starvation mode and you don’t want that. When you do eat, you need to eat a balanced diet, including carbohydrates, proteins and fats in portions that work for your body chemistry. Also, drink water, lots of it. Most people don’t drink near enough water and when their bodies try to tell them about being dehydrated, it is misunderstood as a hunger pang and the body gets more food rather than what it really needs.

Many people believe that in order to build muscle, you have to eat large amounts of protein, so they try to limit their diet to almost all protein. To this end, there are scores of different protein drinks, protein bars, protein cereals and the list goes on. This belief is not true, you need to take in carbohydrates too, without carbohydrates your body cannot process the protein effectively. The protein consumption goes to waste and you feel weak, because you don’t have the energy creating food you need. If you eat all carbohydrates, your body can’t process that correctly either. Balance your intake of protein and carbohydrates so your body can optimize it’s use of both things.

Don’t count your calories down to the last calorie and try to keep them level. Variation in this respect is good for your body, if you try to keep your calorie count absolutely level, your body can adjust to this and still keep you from loosing the weight you are looking to loose. Let your calorie intake vary, enjoy life, cheat once in a while. Just do everything in moderation.