Eat MORE Often To Burn the Most Fat

While it does seem contradictory on first read, research has proven that eating smaller meals more often is the most effective way to burn the most fat and build and maintain muscles. For years, the accepted method to burn the most fat has been three meals per day, and sometimes individuals eat two or fewer meals each day.

However, when trying to build muscle and burn the most fat, eating only three meals per day will be detrimental to your results. The truth is that if there are long gaps (4 hours or more) between your meals, your fat burning metabolism will slow down in an effort to conserve energy. This is a basic survival mechanism used by the body to protect itself during times of starvation.

If you go for 4 hours or more with no food, your body will activate this natural survival mechanism; the body is simply not aware that there is plenty of food available in a fridge 10 feet away from you.

You will not only burn less fat but also lose lean muscle tissue during these times of "famine." Since muscle is metabolically active, it can actually burn calories by itself, and so losing muscle tissue can further slow down your metabolism. Clearly, if you plan to burn the most fat, this is counter-productive.

Besides an increase in muscle breakdown and a decrease in fat burning, a long gap between meals will lower your energy levels, cause increased hunger pangs, and destabilize your blood sugar levels.

Keep your body's fat burning processes working effectively and efficiently and burn the most fat by eating smaller meals more frequently throughout the day. You should ideally have 5? small meals at every 2 to 3-hour interval.

At first, it might seem like a lot, but you'll simply get used to it if you keep at it.

However, note that this does not suggest that you should eat more calories during the day. Plan your smaller, more frequent meals such that the total calories that you gained from your two or three big meals remains unchanged.

This is a much healthier and approach, and by following it, you will burn the most fat. Keep in mind that when you eat only two or three meals a day, the food portions consumed in these meals are much larger than those eaten in the several smaller meals a day. This type of eating is hard on your body's digestive system as it is forced to absorb many nutrients at one time; also, this type of eating causes your blood sugar levels to skyrocket.

Smaller, more frequent meals will keep your blood sugar at a steady level (keeping blood sugar balanced is critical when trying to burn the most fat) and will be more easily digested by the body.

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