| Many people can find a successful dieting solution...by | | | | initial weight your metabolism will stabilise and slow |
| simply eating more. Now you might think that the whole | | | | down again...as will your weight loss, if it doesn't simply |
| point of a diet is to eat less so you lose weight, but this | | | | grind to a complete halt. |
| doesn't have to be the case. The way that you lose | | | | So, if eating good healthy food won't necessarily give |
| weight isn't just about the food that you eat, it's also | | | | me longer term success, what am I missing? How |
| about how your metabolism works and the messages | | | | does eating more actually help? |
| that your diet food gives it to make it work harder and | | | | Well, it's really quite simple. It isn't about eating more |
| to minimise issues like fat conversion. | | | | with every single meal though, and therefore |
| If you've ever been on a diet before that hasn't | | | | overeating. It's about having smaller meals, but more |
| worked for you in the long term, then I'll bet that you | | | | often, and regular healthy snacks during the day. If you |
| were really encouraged to start off with. But, after that | | | | eat healthy food on a little and often basis (say 6 or 7 |
| initial few weeks where your weight just fell off you | | | | times a day instead of the standard 3 meals we are |
| probably found that you hit that wall - and no matter | | | | used to), then you can teach your metabolism to work |
| how you stuck to your weight loss diet, you stopped | | | | harder and better process what you eat. If you only |
| losing as much weight as quickly. | | | | give it enough fuel to last until the next meal then it will |
| This can be all down to your metabolism. If you go | | | | use that food up as energy rather than store it as fat. |
| from an irregular junk food diet that is high in calories to | | | | So, technically, because you eat less but more often, |
| a healthy diet (as so many of us do!) then the first few | | | | you can end up eating more overall...and lose more |
| weeks of eating healthy diet food sends your | | | | weight because your body is doing all the work for |
| metabolism into overdrive. But, once you've lost this | | | | you! |