How to Stay Fuller Longer and Speed Up Your Metabolism

Q: Why is it so important to eat 5/6 meals a day when working out and trying to build lean muscle? It's hard to wait 3 hrs and not be hungry, What tips do you have for staying fuller, longer ?

A: Meal frequency is a huge part to your success when trying to lose weight. First let me explain why 1-3 meals a day is absolutely horrible and why it works against your weight loss goals and actually does the exact opposite and makes you put on weight.

Our bodies natural instinct is to preserve life and in order for it to do that thousands of years ago it had to store food as fat, due to the scarcity of food at the time your body never knew when it was going to get to eat again so it had to store the fat in order for it to survive the wilderness. Now thousands of years later we are extremely pissed off and grateful for it at the same time, because now our body tries so hard to keep us fat for survival purposes. So when you eat 1-3 meals a day and they are smaller meals or larger meals it doesn’t really matter, your body goes into starvation mod which is not what you want. Once it goes into this mode it will start to store everything you eat as fat because again it doesn’t know when the next meal will be. By eating this way you create scarcity in your body and your body in turn makes you fat.

Now when you eat 5-6 small meals a day every 2 ½ to 3 hours your body gets a schedule going and it knows its going to be fed every 2-3 hours and not at some random times throughout the day. This will make your body more readily to digest food and get all the nutrients in and all the junk out a lot faster, this is because your metabolism speeds up when the meal frequency is regular throughout the day. The more your body gets to eat throughout the day on a consistent basis the more proficient it becomes at breaking down food for energy and getting rid of any junk or negative products you put in it.

Hunger is a good sign because it means you metabolism is in warp speed and its digesting your food fast. Remember it’s a diet you will get hungry from time to time. To help with the hunger you need to find foods that take longer to digest and you can do this by looking them up on the glycemic index, foods such as brown rice, sweet potatoes, and oatmeal take longer to digest therefore give you that feeling of being fuller longer. You can also throw in some green leafy veggies as well which will help as well. You want to look for foods in the low glycemic index column of 55- or less.

Let me know how this works for you and be sure to pick up Samson’s 30 Day Rapid Fat Loss Program which will be released any day now!!!