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Eat Smaller Portions, But Eat More Often If your goal is to lose weight, the worst thing you can do is eat nothing all day, and then consume one big meal at the end of the day. The body is a survival system. If more than four hours go by without food, your metabolism slows down in an effort to preserve energy and to help the body to survive. This means that while ordinarily you might burn 80 calories an hour talking on the telephone, you will now burn only 60 calories an hour. You could and should have eaten something earlier; you would have lost more weight. Your goal is to feed your body scientifically so that you are not tired, you burn the maximum fat, and you are never hungry. The best way to do this is to eat more often than the traditional three times a day. The idea is to eat often, but eat smaller portions than usual! Every time you eat a little something, your metabolism speeds up in order to process the food taken in and release energy to you more promptly for use. The Correct Amount of Protein The body absorbs protein in small amounts of about twenty to thirty grams per meal. For this reason, it is inadvisable to consume more than that in one sitting. Excess protein is stored by the body in the form of fat, just as are any other excess calories. The ideal way to consume protein, then, is in three or more smaller portions a day, as opposed to one large portion a day. The Herbalife Weight Loss Program is a perfect fit: One serving of Herbalife Formula 1 in skim milk is equivalent to 19.5 grams of protein. On the weight loss program this is taken twice a day, usually breakfast and lunch. A mid-morning snack of a ShapeWorks Protein Bar gives the body another 12 grams of protein. A mid-afternoon snack of a small tub (200 grams) of low fat yoghurt gives the body another 10 grams of protein. Dinner should consist ideally of a lean meat protein source, such as chicken (with the skin removed), fish or a low fat pork or veal. In this way the body is getting a continuous supply of protein that is not too much and will be burnt up by the body and keep the metabolism running at an optimum level. It is also getting a minimal amount of saturated fats. |
