Tip for April 8th

One of the things that is the very hardest for me is portion control. When you are on a diet and you feel like you are starving, how do you not sit down and eat an entire bag of Doritos? First tip I have found is "Eat Six Small Meals a Day". Space them 3 hours apart. This means that every 3 hours, your body finishes digesting the last meal. Then you immediately throw more food for it to digest. Your body is constantly digesting, so it's constantly operating at an elevated metabolism. Rather than wasting 15 hours a day, you are wasting perhaps 6 hours a day (sleeping). Your time wasted per day has dropped to 25%. A much lower number. Here is an alternate eating schedule: 7AM - eat breakfast, 10AM - eat mid-morning snack, 12PM - eat Lunch, 3PM - eat afternoon snack, 6PM - eat dinner, 9PM - eat evening snack. Now don't think that by eating 6 meals a day you are going to be doubling the food you eat in a day. In fact you will eat the same amount of food you normally eat, the difference is you've spread it out over twice the meals. This essentially means you are eating half the food you normally eat at each meal. Now, these 6 meals will be 6 small meals. In correlation with eating 6 small meals a day, you must learn the concept of portion control. See Portion Control #2 for the second half of this blog!