Tip 2. Eat Frequently Throughout the Day

by ayoub loubar

Think of your body as a furnace. You want your furnace to burn fuel as efficiently as possible. In order for
that to happen, you need to let it burn hot and steady throughout the day.

You need to stoke your fire often to keep it burning. Keep your metabolism running all day long by eating
every 3 to 4 hours. My personal tip: I eat on hours evenly divisible by 3. That means breakfast at 9am (if
I'm up that early), lunch at noon, a snack at 3pm, dinner at 6pm, a snack at 9pm, and if I'm still up another
snack at midnight.

Now, I personally work late (I usually get most of my "real work" done between the hours of 10pm and
2am) but if you need to eat at different hours, that's fine... Just take the total number of calories you're
going to eat throughout the day and divvy them up into 3-hour intervals. Keep that fire stoked! If you can't
take a break at work to eat every 3 hours, bring a protein bar with you.

If you skip breakfast, then you’re extremely hungry by the time lunch comes around. Skip lunch, and
you’re more likely to gorge yourself at dinner. Why? Your body is saying, “Hey! I need food badly!” If
you feed yourself often, throughout the day, your body doesn’t go into shock, and you won’t get those wild
cravings and hunger pangs when it’s time to eat.

People are amazed at the frequency with which I eat meals. Just the other day I took a friend out for lunch
around noon. We came back to my office and talked for a few hours... at around 3pm I pulled out some
yogurt and celery. He was like, "didn't we just eat lunch?" To which I replied, "yes, but it's time to stoke
my fire again!" Of course, he had the double-bacon-cheeseburger and fries and I had the grilled chicken
salad. So while he just finished consuming 1000 calories and a ton of fat, I just consumed 350 calories and
was ready for another small meal. That's the key to weight loss! Frequent, smaller meals!

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