When I was growing up the only meals I can ever remember eating(excluding snacks) were the core Three; Breakfast,Lunch, and Dinner. That was the norm you eat three times a day and maybe a few snacks in between. Nobody ever questioned it or really thought about changing it. Well what our parents didn’t know is that this is not the most efficient means to take in our daily nutrients.
When you really sit back and start thinking about it, it makes a lot of sense. For example if you have five tasks to complete for the day and you decide to sit down and do them all at once? in an hour? how efficiently do you think you will complete each task? You may rush through them, make mistakes,skip important steps or even have to redo them. Now if you had those same five tasks and decided to do them one at a time through out? the entire day you could spend more time on each one, ensuring that they were completed properly and with the highest level of quality possible. So why would you force your body to try and handle the breaking? down and digestion of large quantities of food all at once,when a much better and efficient method would be to give it several small quantities of food spread through out the entire day. Its easier for our bodies to properly utilize all the nutrients if we give it smaller meals to digest.
Not only are several smaller meals more efficient for your body, but it also triggers your body to store less of the nutrients as fat. Protein, fat and carbohydrates are the sources where your body goes for energy. When its not getting fresh supplies of these nutrients it It will attempt to hold on to as much extra nutrients(as fat) as possible to ensure the body can continue to function properly when no more energy sources are available. The body has this built in survival mechanism that causes it to store nutrients as fat when its not sure if more food will be provided for break down.? So when you go long periods through out the day without eating you are essentially sending the signal to your body that it could be on the verge of starving.? When you eat more often typically every 2-3 hours you reassure your body that it will constantly have a fresh incoming source of nutrients for it to use? and there is really no need for much of it to be stored as fat. Therefore this will allow your body to break down and use the food that you digest more completely and efficiently and the end result is your bodies metabolism will be naturally elevated. Your metabolism is what determines how many calories your body is able to burn each day. So having it elevated will help you stay leaner even without a lot of extra cardio.
If you are still only eating three times a day and your not getting the kind of results you have been looking for maybe its time you make a change. You don’t have to eat seven to eight meals like I do , but you should definitely try adding? a few more into your meal plan and see how it works out.
what is a good plan to lose the belly fat , ive been working out hard for 4 months but cant lose the last 10 to 15 pounds of belly fat . what type of diet do u recomend low carb high protien and if so can u explain some examples
I find two types of diet programs work best for loosing that stubborn fat. 1.)Carb cycling, 2.)Carb loading. I will give brief examples of both here, but I’m going to write a more in depth post on diet programs later this week. Carb cycling you alternate how many grams of carbs you consume on a daily basis(you have your no carb days, low carb days, medium carb days and high carb days) You try to plan them around your workout schedule. Example high carb day on your hardest workout day. For carb loading you would consume a low carb diet for most of the week and every so many days you would either do a carb load day or meal(I recommend just doing a meal, so you don’t over due it). So for your carb load you would go low carb high protein mon-wed and then the last meal on Wednesday night would be your carb load meal. Hope this helps and keep checking back I should have the diet programs article posted before the end of the week.
so then only one day out of the week i carb load , and the rest of the week i focus on high protien low carb ,and for how long do i run this cycle for ….. also how long should u workout for and how many days should u workout during the week i normally do 2 weight day then 1 cardio then off then 2 weight then 1 cardio then off for about 1:30 or so for weights then cardio about 30 to 45 min
I just started carb cycling and I’m noticing a difference already. Still tweaking and figuring out what works, but I see the lower belly fat slowly dropping and more definition!! I was thinking about the carb load method, but I’ll see how this works first for a while. Some people go all week low carb then carb load on weekends from what I’ve heard.