Skyler Meine

Are you one of those people who jumps out of bed in the morning just in time to get a shower in before you have to run to work? Then, you are so busy at work that you only have a few minutes to grab a snack. By the end of the work day you realize you are starving, so you pick up something on the way home or go home and eat way too much to make up for your lack of food throughout the day.

If you can relate to this story it is time to make some changes to your eating habits because what you are doing is killing your metabolism! On top of killing your metabolism, if you are exercising you are seriously going to hamper your improvement in the gym.

It’s going to take some effort on your part but eating five to six small meals a day will give you more energy. It will keep your metabolism burning as many calories as possible throughout the entire day. Just three hours after you eat, your body will have used or stored all the energy from that meal. This allows your body to utilize fat as a source of energy so that your energy levels stay up, and your body doesn’t hear the starvation alarm and attack lean muscle mass for fuel.

Eating every three hours will keep your metabolism burning calories non-stop, targeting the fat stores to get those extra calories it needs. Remember, healthy weight loss is all about maintaining lean muscle to keep your metabolism cranked up and burning fat. Make sure that each meal is balanced with protein, carbohydrates and fat. The closer the meals are to each other in number of calories, the better.

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