6 Meals A Day?

By adamkipling

What's up with the 6 meals a day diet?

Let me explain to you why you hear so many people saying that you have to eat 6 meals a day to lose weight. It is not about the number 6 or having exactly 6 meals a day! Tests have shown that it takes the average person about 3 hours to fully digest what is in their stomach. Research has also shown that keeping your metabolism working all day will cuase it to continue to work while your asleep and burn either FAT or WHAT'S LEFT IN YOUR STOMACH. So if you have read my other article "When to stop eating at night" you might see the connection there becuase I talk about not eating within 3 hours of going to sleep!

Let me explain a little more. You do not want to eat 6 huge meals and or 6 tiny meals, actually half of the time you will just be snacking, not eating a meal! You still need your 3 main meals.. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. These meals should be at a reasonable proportion and have all three of the following.. Protien, vitamins and mineral rich food like fruits or veggies, and some but not too much complex carbs. For dinner you really don't need much complex carbs at all, stick to lean protien and veggies! If you are unsure about what complex carbs are, or simple carbs, or even good lean protiens.. check out www.hollywoodfitness.biz and contact me, I would love to help you as much as possible.

So now we have our 3 main meals, why are they saying 6 meals? Ok well a lot of people work right? A lot of people eat breakfast when they wake up, but then don't eat lunch for another 6 or 7 hours, and then eat a huge dinner at night! This is horrible when it comes to being a fat burning machine, especially if your snacking on crap you know you shouldn't have during the day. Here is the good news.. you should never be hungry! What I'm trying to say is use all the info I've told you so far.. check it out- If research shows, after 3 hours your stomach will be empty, and research also shows that you want your metabolism constantly working to burn the most fat while you sleep, then you should be putting healthy foods in your body about every 3 hours! Now this is not an exact number, you may be hungry after 2 hours. Ok then after 2 hours snack on something healthy, let that digest and then snack again when you get hungry. Before you know it, it will be time to take your lunch! Do the same thing untill dinner, and if you have an early dinner you may have to snack one more time before you sleep, but try not to eat anything within 3 hours of going to bed. Just remember this, your metabolism is like a fire and to keep that fire burning, you have to put more wood (aka healthy food) on it just before it starts to go out. This will cause your metabolism to continue to work super hard and burn fat while you sleep since you have nothing in your stomach after the 3 hours! Get it?

So what I'm trying to say is you must understand how your body works.  Don't worry about making sure you eat exactly 6 meals a day, becuase you may only need to eat 5 times, or you may need to eat 7 times. It all depends on your main three meals, and what your healthy snacks are, and what your activites are thruought the day. So please understand that when you are hungry, you should eat something. This is great news for those who think starving yourself is how you lose weight, for most people know by now that you will in the end putting the weight back on by doing that, and you would have suffered in vain!!

If you need help thinking of ideas for healthy meals and or snacks I would be more than happy to help you! Contact me @ adamkipling99@gmail.com or if you would like a nutrtion and fitness program made 100% custom to your needs and schedule please check out this website www.fitorbit.com/trainers/adamkipling I can help you over the internet whenever you need me 24/7!

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Clearing Up The Confusion on When To Stop Eating at Night

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By adamkipling

 

When to Stop Eating!!

Ok so yes most of you know by now that at night is the worst time to pig out or get drunk or give in to those munchies! But you also may have heard something like "it's best to not eat after 7pm" Well that is not entirely true. The rule is you should be eating all day to keep your motabolism going strong, but you want to go to bed on a somewhat empty stomach so that you burn fat in your sleep for energy. Since your body is undergoing a ton of changes while you sleep, it is still using energy and burning calories. If you have food in your stomach it will use that, if you don't it will use stored fat! So a more acurate rule is to not eat for about 3 hours before going to sleep. If you stop eating at 7 but go to bed at 12 you will be starving all night and that also can slow down your motabolism and cause your body to store more calories as fat. But if you know your going to be sleeping by around 12 lets say, then stop eating at 9... get it? So if you have dinner at 7, feel free to have a nice low calorie preferably high protien and or vegatable snack 3 hours before you think you will fall asleep, and then stop eating. If you get too hungry and have to cheat, cheat with something low to no fat, high in protien and low to no carbs. Something like veggies, or non fat cottage cheese or yogurt is good, but no fruit!! No Sugar!!! Ok I hoped that cleared up the rule for most of you! Happy eats!
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Add HIIT To Your Weekly Cardio Routine

Add HIIT To Your Weekly Cardio Routine

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High Intensity Interval Training

  That's right HIIT stands for High Intensity Interval Training. What exactly is that and how does it work? Let me explain.. but first let me use an illustration. When your in your car, when do you burn more gas.. when your going 70 on the highway just cruising, or when the light turns green and you go from 0 to 60? That's right, you burn more gas when you step on the gas! It's the same with our bodies, we burn more calories when we step on the gas! So in other words, we want to add sprinting to our cardio routine, and INTERVALS. An interval is a period of time while doing cardio that you push your body almost as hard as it can go, but then the key is to slow down and let your heart rate go back down. The reason we want your heart rate to go back down, is so we can raise it again. You burn more calories bringing your heart rate from 90 to 180, than you do from keeping a steady pace with a heart rate at 155.
   The key here is to confuse your body! Jogging for an hour will not confuse your body at all. With each interval you have 3 variables you can play with to confuse your body; Speed, Incline, and Duration. With each interval you do, you should change one or 2 or maybe all three of these variables. Depending on what type of shape you are in, your intervals should be between 30 seconds and 3 minutes. Lets say you do your first interval for a minute at a speed of 7.0 and an incline of 2.0... a good idea for the next interval could be keeping the speed and incline the same but doing it for 1 minute and 30 seconds. Or you can keep it at a minute but bump the speed up to 8.0. And the same goes for the incline becuase the incline makes it tougher as well!
   Besides the fact that HIIT has been proven to get amazing fat burning and incredible V02 level increasing results, one thing I love about it, is you get it done much quicker. You should only perform interval training for between 10 to 25 minutes. You can go longer if you really want to, but 25 minutes is all you need. If your pushing yourself harder and harder, you can make 10 to 25 minutes really count!
Now I'm not saying that this is the only type of cardio you should do from here on out. Remember I can't stress enough how important it is to confuse your body. By adding HIIT to your routine, you will be gaining better results from your low intensity long duration cardio training. Your body will get confused going from one day jogging for 45 minutes to doing intervals the next day for 20 minutes. Keep your body guessing in all you do and I promise you will get the results you've been working for!!

Please contact me if you need more information or have any questions about this or anything health and fitness related at adamkipling99@gmail.com

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Another Great Fat Burning tip!!

Amazing New Fat Burning Weight Loss Tip!!

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Walking early for amazing Fat Burn Effect

 Remember how I told you how important it is to have a low blood sugar level when it comes to burning fat and losing weight?  And how grapefruit and cinnimon and other foods help you keep a low blood sugar level.  Well this leads me in to another very powerful yet very unkown tip that I promise if your able to do it, you will see results quickly. 
Your blood sugar level is at it's very lowest when you first wake up!  Think about it, you've been fasting for 7 or 8 hours, your body is doing a ton of maintenance and repairs and changing while you're in la la land dreaming about swimming in a pool filled with chocolate milk! Wait that's my dream.. anyway.. when you wake up your blood sugar level is extremely low!  Does that mean you should work out first thing in the morning?  Maybe, but to get an intense workout you are going to need energy, and we get energy from food, and food raises our blood sugar level.  So I would not recommend going to the gym when you first wake up without eating anything, but here is what you can do for amazing results!  If you have the time before work or if your able to wake up a little earlier than usual then do this..  Drink about a half a cup to a full cup of black coffee.  You can put a little milk in there but black coffee is better, and the key is to not sweeten it even with artificial sweetner becuase it is still not 100% clear if artificial sweetner raises your blood sugar level.  Anyway the reason for the coffee is to A) help you wake up and B) the cafeine will increase your fat motabalism!  That's what we want right??  Ok, so you drank the coffee, now what?  Go for a nice brisk speed walk!  Do not Jog!! We want to keep the intensity low!  Why is that you ask.. well there is a threshold where if your cardio or heart rate goes past a certain level, you will start to burn calories from carbs rather than from fat!  You still burn calories from fat when doing intense cardio, but you really really target them while keeping the intensity low.  Hence the reason why walking is a great thing to do for anyone at any fitness level.  I see body builders in my gym walking on the tredmill on a high incline rather than running, becuase they know this tip and they want to target calories from fat! 
So lets go over this again.  You wake up with an extremely low blood sugar level.  You drink a half or a full cup of black coffee to kickstart your fat motabalism.  You then go for a nice brisk walk, preferably with some hills involved, for about a half hour to 45 minutes.  This will not only burn a ton of calories from fat early in the morning, but it will also have those endorphins kicking in nice and early and that is a great way to start the day.  If you are able to do this a few times a week to everyday, I promise you will lose weight much faster than you are already.  You have to add this to what your already doing, don't substitute it for your workout out, but add it to the mix.  And please remember this... It's not how you start the day that counts, it's how you finish it.  This is an amazing way to start the day for burning fat, but you still have to eat healthy and be discipline all the way untill you go to sleep that night.  You can easily ruin the whole day of work by eating what you know you shouldn't late at night.  And what is it that you know you shouldn't eat?? All that junk that RAISES THE BLOOD SUGAR LEVEL!! 

I hope this tip helps.. if you have any questions about this or want any other free tips like right now feel free to contact me at adamkipling99@gmail.com

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