18/08/2015
FOR THE NEXT 10 DAYS WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT SECRETS TO AMPLIFY YOUR FAT LOSS POTENCIAL.
1- CONSUME 5 TO 6 MEALS PER DAY!
Food's consumption involves digestion of foods and absorption of nutrients (proteins, carbohydrates and fats). Digestion and absorption require energy to occur.
So, food consumption leads the body to spend energy to support digestion and absorption processes.
The increased frequency of food intake throughout the day will boost your body's metabolism for the following 2 main reasons:
Your body will be forced to increase the daily energy expenditure because of the frequent activation of digestion and absorption processes induced by the repeated food intake throughout the day.
Eating frequently is perceived by the body as a sign of energy/food abundance.
Because of this, the body will increase energy expenditure (increased metabolic rate) since there's no need for such frequent calorie intake to be stored as energy depots (such as fats in the adipose fat tissue); which happens during starvation states (occurring during periods of food deprivation).
From a hormonal point of view the food abundance (represented by an increased frequency of food intake) triggers an increased thyroid hormone (T3 and T4) secretion - this ultimately determines how much the metabolism will increase.
Remember high levels of thyroid hormones increase metabolism, low levels of thyroid hormones depress metabolism leading to fat gain!
If you pay attention, fat people are usually those who split their daily food intake into no more than 2-3 meals! Such meal frequency puts the body into a starvation/food deprivation state, so the body replies by decreasing the metabolism through the lowering of thyroid hormones!
The increased daily food intake frequency is one of the easiest and most natural weapons we have in our hands to manipulate and enhance thyroid hormones secretion and thus to increase the body's metabolism!
So the fat loss deriving from the increased daily frequency of food intake is better schematically represented by the following events:
Increased frequency of food intake.
Food abundance.
Increased thyroid hormones secretion.
Increased metabolic rate.
Increased fat loss.
