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Want To Burn The Most Fat? Eat More Often
Sure, it seems inconsistent when you first consider it, but research has indicated that the best way to build and maintain muscle as well as burn the most fat is to eat smaller meals frequently. For years, the conventional method to burn the most fat was a three-meal-a-day diet, and sometimes, people ate even two or fewer meals.
However, if you are trying to build muscle and burn the most fat, the truth is that eating only three meals per day will have a negative impact on your results. The reason is that in an effort to conserve energy, your body will slow down your fat burning metabolism if there are long periods of time (4 hours or more) between meals. This is a basic survival mechanism used by the body to protect itself during times of starvation.
Since your body cannot possibly know that there is a fridge full of food 10 feet away from you, if you don't eat for 4 hours or more, the natural survival mechanism will kick in.
During this period that the body considers to be a "famine," it will burn less fat as well as break down lean muscle tissue. Since muscle is considered to be a metabolically active ...
... tissue in that it has the ability to burn calories all on its own, the break down of lean muscle can further slow down your metabolism. This is clearly not a good thing if you really want to burn the most fat.
In addition to the decreased fat burning and increased muscle breakdown, taking long breaks between meals will destabilize blood sugar levels, increase hunger pangs, and lower energy levels.
In order to burn the most fat and keep the body's fat burning processes working efficiently and effectively, focus on consuming smaller meals more frequently throughout the day. You should ideally have 5-7 small meals at every 2 to 3-hour interval.
It may seem like a lot at first, but once you get going, it's something that you'll simply get used to.
Remember that this does not imply that more calories should be consumed in day. The smaller, more frequent meals should contain the same total calories as the two or three larger meals eaten during the day.
By following this approach, you will burn the most fat, but just as importantly, the approach in itself is healthier than others. 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. Keep in mind that eating larger meals considerably raises blood sugar levels; moreover, it adversely affects your body's digestive system in that the body is unable to absorb so many nutrients at once.
Several small meals are easily digested by the body, but more importantly, they help in maintaining steady blood sugar levels; this is crucial when trying to burn the most fat.
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