Congratulations you made it through your first week. Hope you are enjoying a nutritious breakfast daily. Keep it up!
Your challenge this week is to eat 6 times a day!
This means you are going to have to eat every 2 to three hours to accomplish this goal.
Eating more frequently is going to help you in a couple of ways. First, your metabolism speeds up and becomes more efficient with the extra work. Its like training for the body. The more often you use it the faster and more efficient it functions.
When we wait too long in between meals we tend to crave sugar, and fats. Basically your body communicates its need for energy, and the quickest most efficient way to make fuel for the body is through carbohydrates which convert then to glucose. Hence the insatiable and sudden onset craving for cookies.
Now for some tips…..
Get prepared. Make a grocery list which will include snacks, and make a weeks plan for what you will be eating for snacks and meals.
Have some emergency snacks on hand. Keep something in your purse or car at all times. I keep a trail mix in a bag in my car that includes nuts and raisins.
Eat your meals on a lunch size plate. It is much easier to put less on your plate, if you can’t fit anymore on your plate.
Alright, ready, set, go!
