I recommend eating 5-6 smaller meals per day!

Why?

Some might not understand this strategy if they’re trying to lose weigh….and try not to eat anything until lunch then don’t eat anything again until after 6-7pm and end up eating only two real meals per day.

Sound about right?

SO the TRUTH is that you can DO MORE HARM than good with this strategy, of thinking.

Messing with your weight loss goals and even your digestive/gut health!

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Here are a few reason why I believe eating smaller meals more frequently is important.

💚Helps Manage Appetite

Eating 5-6 meals about 2.5 - 3 hours apart is a major key in keeping tabs on your appetite. 🙌🏻

If you’re eating healthy whole foods each meal, like lean protein, veggies and slow-burning carbohydrates like whole grains instead of refined white flour and sugar, you’ll stay full throughout the day and will be less likely to have cravings and binge…because your so hungry!

💚Keeps Energy Levels High!

If you have just coffee for breakfast & maybe a pastry…I’m pretty sure that you experience a mid-morning crash that can make you want to go for something sugary to try to bring yourself back to life

Am I right?

annnnd…if you don’t eat much throughout the day and then eat a big lunch, there’s a second afternoon crash that hits.

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Eating too infrequently can cause major spikes and crashes in your blood sugar levels…so eating smaller meals 5- 6 times per day can keep our blood sugar levels steady, and your energy levels throughout the day!!

AND help keep you from giving into sugary cravings

💚Boosts Metabolism & Keeps Hormones In Balance

My favorite AND the best way that eating small frequent meals helps with weight loss!!.

Eating more often helps stimulate your metabolism and keeps it from getting to a starvation mode.

When we go without eating for hours at a tim, our body will automatically slow its metabolic rate to conserve energy….

There are several hormones in our bodies that affect hunger levels, metabolism and weight loss like insulin.

Eating too infrequently causes larger insulin spikes when we do eat….and in turn increase fat storage.

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💚Improves Digestion

Eating smaller, frequent meals spaced throughout the day has important effects on our health, too.

It helps us digest better – because we’re putting small, manageable quantities of food into the body bit by bit rather than a big food bomb twice per day, making it easier for our gut to process and absorb vitamins and minerals from our foods when we eat smaller quantities more frequently.

In fact, many doctors recommend eating smaller meals more frequently to help patients with digestive conditions like acid reflux.

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Jules