Like every other year, most of us may have decided their new year resolutions like regular exercise, losing and maintaining weight, avoiding fats, giving up chocolates and ice creams and so on.  It's like giving ourselves another chance to make up for times when we goofed up or when things didn't go as planned. But before you put them into practice, I would like to bring a very important thing to your notice. There is one "HEALTH MANTRA" which will help you to lose weight to some extent and can be easily incorporated in our daily lifestyle i.e. "SMALL AND FREQUENT MEALS"

Why it is so important???

This is very important thing to know. Many people think that eating less is the key to lose weight, and go for crash diets but by thinking so you are simply starving your body. Let's make it simple, when there is a shortage of something, we store that things for emergency use, right? Our body acts like the same, when there is a shortage of food in the body by eating less or starving yourself, our body simply stores the food in the form of fat, because it doesn't know when it will be getting the next meal and ultimately your metabolic rate slows down as body does not want to spend calories due to shortage. So never ever starve yourself and go for crash diets which disturb your body metabolism.

So, what can we do???

Follow the simple things given below for better metabolism:
  1. Do not keep longer gaps in between 2 meals.
  2. Have at least 6-7 meals / day.
  3. Break large meals into smaller ones and eat small and frequent meals. The breakage will be like this - Early Morning, Breakfast, Mid-Morning, Lunch, Evening, Late Evening, Dinner and Bedtime or Late Night.
  4. Generally we consume 3 - 4 meals a day like Breakfast, Lunch , Evening and dinner. Try to fill the gaps in between with the other smaller meals like Early Morning, Mid-Morning, and Late evening.
  5. Prefer a heavy breakfast, moderately heavy lunch and light dinner.
  6. There are some healthy choices of smaller meals to fill the gaps like sprouts chat, fruits, healthy fats like almonds, walnuts, salad preparations, green tea etc.
  7. Prefer to have a cup of warm milk (without sugar) before going to bed for a better sleep.

How does it help to lose weight???

  • When you eat meals at short intervals, your body  uses every meal for energy purpose and does not store it in the form of fat.
  • It will help you boost your metabolism, thereby help you to burn calories.
  • When you eat small meals in between by the time of lunch or dinner you are not that much hungry to eat heavy meals.
  • When you get habitual to this, there are lesser chances of tempting for unhealthy food choices.
So try it now and enjoy the results!!!!!
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