Having frequent meals throughout the day instead of the traditional three times a day model, which we are all so used to perhaps now might not necessarily be the best way to keep your weight in check.

You are far better off by eating five to six small meals throughout the day, the reason for this is eating food is a chemical process most people when it comes to weight loss tend to get things backwards, they either over consume food or starve themselves the problem with doing these particular things is overconsumption creates more weight gain.

And under consumption will cause your body to hold onto fat stores, but that only that your metabolism will slow right down, as regards to the amount of calories that you should be eating in a small meal 400 calories is perfectly adequate spread over about four to five meals that works out at roughly 2000 calories.

You could always have one or more meals added to this say hundred calories each the thing here is to use common sense and workout what you could incorporate into these particular meals calorie wise to suit your own needs.

If you are particularly looking to lose weight than adjust these so that you’re consuming about 1600 calories instead another beneficial reason for doing this is it will keep your blood sugar at a stable level throughout the day, we do seem to have lots of traditional ways of doing things in our life.

And it all does seem to revolve around the way we eat our meals as we are growing all as children we are constantly told by our parents not to eat between meals etc, so as we grow what we tend not to do it when we get older, but the thing is there is nothing wrong with it these days we are overloaded with information from print media, the Internet television etc all telling us what we should and shouldn’t be doing.

As regards eating food the thing is going back to years gone by things like breakfast, lunch and tea were never even heard of in Victorian times the only reason we have these particular ritual eating times is late tend to work within our working lives.

But really why not break tradition and eat when you want to you will tend to reap the rewards far better, if you think about this logically it does make a lot of sense have you ever noticed when, you don’t eat for several hours when it comes to say dinner time.

You are starving due to the time that has elapsed between breakfast and dinner time, and do to your traditional way of eating you don’t tend to snack until dinner time, but also you may notice that it is quite easily possible to eat more food eating this way. Have a go and try it and see what happens I think you might be quite pleasantly surprised.

Remember these points eating food is a chemical process if you are eating food the right sort of food then your body is generating heat. If you want to get a rough idea of what to eat eating five to six meals a day have a look here.

http://www.sixmealsadaydiet.co.uk

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One of the most looked over things when you’re trying to lose some weight, is knowing exactly what and how much food you are eating, you can to a certain extent roughly guess how much food you are eating in a day, by simply writing down the calories on the side of the food item or where ever it may be. But also it’s not just that as well it’s what you are eating.

Eating food predominately tends to be a what I would call a unconscious process mostly, you tend to eat what you like the taste, of as we all do. This is all very well but sometimes we can tend to cheat on ourselves and stray with our eating habits.

Which is why it’s a good idea to write down what you eat every day, or even plan your meals so you know for a fact then the you’re only eating what you should be eating rather than what you shouldn’t be eating. T

his particular idea of writing down what you eat has been around for a very long time now, but it’s probably, I dare say that something that we very often don’t do probably due to the fact that it requires a bit of effort, and something that we don’t particularly think that we need to do.

However a study that was instigated recently by Dr Victor J. Stevens, who is a researcher at Kaiser Permanente Center was quoted as saying that we don’t particularly like to write down what we are eating it’s not that much fun but it has been proven that it does work.

In a study which was in their August publication they followed 1700 people, who were either overweight and/or obese both men and women. And their overall average weight was 212 pounds or 15 stone& and two pounds, the participants were asked to attend 20 group weekly meetings. And also told to consume 500 calories less than they would be eating normally, which is what you would eat.

in order to lose one pound of fat per week through a combination of exercise and calorie deficit. They were told to do moderate exercise of 30 minutes per day follow a low-fat fat diet which comprised of fruit and vegetables mainly.

They were asked to record what they ate and how many minutes of exercise they did as well, after a five-month period they lost on average 13 pounds of weight, and the surprising thing is that they more that they recorded their food intake the more weight that they lost. Those who didn’t keep a record of what they were eating lost nine pounds, whereas the people who kept to their food journals, and did it over a six-day period, lost 18 pounds of weight.

That is double the amount of weight which is quite a big difference I am sure you will agree. So what is the magic ingredient that makes this work so well the researchers seem to think that it is because, you are being accountable for what it is you are actually doing, when you are writing things down you can actually see where things are coming from, such as access calories etc.

As far as exercise is concerned you can probably see where you have or haven’t been doing it, because after a while if you don’t incorporate exercise into your lifestyle it can tend to drop off you either get bored or simply can’t be bothered to do it so it goes to the wayside. One of the tips that the researchers gave was write down what you have eaten after you have eaten it, use your PDA or you can write e-mail a to yourself, use pen and paper or use post-it notes. Here is why it can help.

• The actual process of keeping the diary this will make you realise what you should not be eating
• You could be eating out a lot and not realise things that you were eating
• There may be certain eating patterns or habits that you may not realise that you have, as I have said before eating food can largely be a unconscious process this will help you stamp out those unnecessary habit patterns which can be very ingrained.
• You could be comfort eating without even realising it this is something that a lot of people do tend to struggle with as far as weight loss is concerned.
• It will make you far more accountable for the food that you are eating.
• Over a period of time you will be able to see trends and spot them, which will help you understand what is and isn’t working.

Here are some sites that you can use which are free online food diaries and calorie counters as well.

http://www.foodfocus.co.uk/
http://www.fitday.com/
http://www.my-calorie-counter.com/
http://www.nutridiary.com/
http://www.iowaavenue.com/

Source http://health.msn.com

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