Six Meals A Day Diet

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What Is The Five Or Six Meals A Day Diet All About?

If you're here then you're probably wondering what all the news is about eating five or six meals a day.

After all, if you're like the majority of people who here about this diet revolution, you're here more because you're wondering what it's all about. Curiosity has reled you in, and you're most likely thinking right now "I have enough trouble losing weight eating just 3 times a day - how on earth am I going to shed pounds if I eat twice as often?!".

Fair question.

The fact, as you will find out later on in this lens is that you don't double what you eat each day. You split a suitable daily food intake into a number of smaller meals - to each of your five or six meals you eat each day will be considerably smaller thatn what you are used to at the moment.

But there are some very reasonable biological reasons for this diet and in this page I am going to be taking you through how and why the six meals a day diet works, and giving you a sample of such a diet in the hope that you're willing to try it yourself.

I think that once you have, there'll be no going back.

Now onto the good stuff...

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What Is So Great About The Six Meals A Day Diet?

The six meals a day diet is like a diet without the pain.

OK, so I'm exadurating, but it's one of the least painful ways I have found of losing weight.

Why is that?

Well, if you eat six meals a day it's hard to get hungry. It's also hard to feel like you want to snack on junk. You are eating every 2 to 3 hours while you're awake so you feel like you're always eating. You can actually feel like a pig and wish you could *stop* eating :-)

But in other words, munching on potato crisps, chocolate and so on are a thing of the past.

As is a feeling of starvation or depriving yourself.

The other thing is that eating this often speeds up your metabolism causing you to burn more calories no matter what you are doing.

So whether you're exercising or just sitting at your desk you will actually burn more energy so will lose weight faster and/or easier.

What could be better?

How Does The Six Meals A Day Diet Work?

No doubt you've heard of the GI diet unless you've been living under a rock.

The GI of a food helps to define how quickly your body can access and use the energy contained in a food after it is eaten.

In general, the lower the GI, the slower the release of energy. This slow release of energy means your body doesn't get "flushing" with calories 3 times a day but instead maintains a far more gentle release of energy after a meal.

The six meals a day diet takes it to the next level so you have many small meals of low GI foods for a constant trickle of energy.

By not flooding your body there are far less calories available at any one time so it is far less likely that any will get turned into fat.

Eating regularly also burns off energy because digesting food uses up calories in the body, so your metabolism speeds up and you burn off more energy at rest than someone who eats less regularly.

In addition, regular eating means that snacking is virtually eliminated as you will be eating again in a few hours.

Lastly these small meals mean you rareky feel over-full after a meal. You feel satisfied but not stuffed so are able to get straight on with your life after eating rather than having to sit around to digest your dinner for an hour :-)