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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Ever meet someone who wanted to get in shape, so they opened their front door and started running? Two days later, they were back on their couch eating Twinkies. The yellow foamy part first and then the creamy center. Maybe that person was you. You never really had a plan. You saw people running around your neighborhood and they all looked like they were in shape.

You wanted to lose weight, too. When you ran you got out of breath, so you thought running must be a great exercise to burn the maximum amount of calories. You thought if you could just run one cement slab further each day, you would be in the best shape of your life before long.

Did you know what you were going to eat to help get rid of those extra pounds, or what to eat to recover from that run you just went on? Did you know the more you run the less calories you are going to burn, and the less effective your exercise is going to be?

When you dove headfirst into a program like this, your intentions were great. But you didn’t succeed. Why not? What do you need to master this time in order to be successful?

You need to get your priorities straight.

The weight loss expert’s list of priorities in order of importance:

1. Your Mind: Check out the previous posts to get your mind in the right place.

2. Healthy Eating For Weight Loss:  The answers are coming!

3. Resistance Exercise: Future posts will reveal the secret to making this more effective than running.

4. Fat Burning and Muscle Building Cardio: Is it possible?

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