Want to kick start your metabolism? Start eating more… Sounds confusing?

Eating smaller meals a day helps you speed up your metabolism. This happens because your body is able to more efficiently use the calories and not store them. If you eat less frequently and more quantity, your body can’t keep up with the excess supply of calories and has to store them as fat. By you also eating frequently it puts your body in an anabolic state (which means building muscle…burning fat), it also stabilizes your sugar levels and gives you constant energy.

Has this ever happen to you? You eat your average breakfast, by 10 am you start getting hungry. At mid-day you have a heavy lunch, around 1pm you start getting sleepy. 3pm you are hungry again. When you get home for dinner you eat another heavy meal, because you avoided eating earlier again. This is the way to gain weight and feel tired.

Now, what if you made some adjustments. Lets say, for breakfast you have (high fiber cereal, low fat milk, peanut butter), at 10 am a snack (yogurt or cottage cheese or protein shake or bar). For lunch (chicken breast, brown rice, vegetables), at 3 pm a second snack (yogurt or fruit or protein shake or bar) and finally dinner you have (a tuna salad). This way you speed up your metabolism, have stable energy, and burn more fat.

Life is about having balance and so should be your daily intake of food.