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3 Reasons Why Eating Multiple Meals/Day Burns Fat Better
When we finally stop hanging on to the way we’ve always done it, progress happens
A decade of intermittent fasting was long enough, I decided. Time to try something different.
That was eighteen months ago, and I’ve been tinkering with my diet ever since.
I went from none, one or two meals a day to four feedings overall (and zero snacks). From 3,400 calories to 2,650, and I dropped four percent body fat along the way.
A winning experiment, I’d say, since my goal was comfortable fat burning. Which it almost always is.
What made me go back to breakfast, second breakfast, lunch, and dinner? Simple, I believed eating more frequently would burn faster than eating less. And I was right. Here’s why.
More Meals Means Fewer Calories
When I ate fewer times, my meals were huge.
Not to mention that I often ate more than I should. Something about knowing you only get to eat sixty meals a month makes it hard to put down the fork.
I wasn’t eating bad food, just far too much good food. We’re talking pounds of meat, several cups of veggies, and a jar of nut butter for lunch, then the same…