Mini Meals What You Should Know

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Remember when it was believed that eating 6 mini meals a day was better for you than eating 3? I used to prepack my Tupperware the night before to make sure I had all of my “meals” covered for the day. I am so glad the research has cleared this myth! You don’t need to eat five or six tiny meals to “balance” your blood sugar. You can eat three meals and one snack or just eat three meals and loose weight efficiently, and have balanced blood sugar.

Our bodies use fat as fuel and our it is burned slow and steady. In contrast, sugar and carbohydrate fuels provide quick energy bursts typically followed by a crash. Burning fat is beneficial because it is actually a detoxifying process. Most of us do not burn fat efficiently and our bodies are storing fat and gaining weight. When we eat every two to three hours our bodies burn fuel from those meals rather than from stored fat. The experts who believed that six meals a day was better, thought that this way of eating will rev up your metabolism, give you steady blood sugar, and lower food cravings. These experts continue to have difficulty supporting these claims. This way of eating may work initially but within 6-9 months results tend to slow and people are often hungry all of the time resulting in gaining the weight back.

In 2002, the New York Academy of Sciences published a report stating that grazing all day can put you at risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. If you eat 3 meals per day your insulin levels have time to even out. How do you go from eating several meals back to eating 3 meals per day….

Eat slowly, sit down and enjoy your meal.
Drink water before and between each meal.
It’s ok to start out with 4 meals and work down to 3

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