Lose Weight How?

Let's get something straight, and you've heard it all before: weight loss is something that takes time if it is going to be done safely. Fad diets and miracles products always carry some risk usually to the heart or liver.

What works? Grazing is an excellent way to reduce caloric intake and not starve to death. Most people don't know how grazing works. Eating six meals a day is not grazing if those meals are McDonald's drive-thru. Six meals a day means taking what you would normally eat in three and dividing that in half and spreading that out over the waking day. That would mean eating every 2.67 hours. If you normally eat a 2000 calorie diet, then you'd be eating 333.33 calories per meal. That's about 2 bunches of broccoli or 110 grams of sirloin steak. Depending on what you choose, it could be quite a bit of food or very little.

My experience with grazing happened quite by accident. I had been called for jury duty several years ago and ended up on a case that lasted a very long time, three or four months as I recall. So not wanting to pay for fast food, and knowing that my breaks were going to be frequent, I prepared my own meals every day. This amounted to one large resealable tupperware container with my combination of rice, vegetables and egg whites. It was a fairly sizable container, something on the order of 32 ounces.

The courtroom breaks were frequent so every time we were asked to step into the hallway while the lawyers conferred, I would take two spoonfulls of my lunch. No more, no less.

As the days wore on, I noticed that I did not feel pangs of hunger which I normally felt when only eating three meals and that I did not feel bloated or sluggish as after a large meal. Also, because eating takes so much energy, I was able to shed a few pounds of unecessary body fat as well. In case you didn't know, fat is most effectively burned during rest periods, such as sleep or other inactive states. Since I wasn't training because of this schedule, my body was always at rest!

So try this out every now and then and see how it works for you.