Could You Be Eating Too Often?

Many Americans don’t eat too much……they eat too often.

Watch Your Meal Frequency

Meal frequency can play a huge role in weight loss, athletic performance, muscle and health, healing, and chronic promotion of diseases.

Eating 5 to 7 times a day, 3 to 4 meals and 2 to 3 snacks terrorizes people’s metabolism and hormonal balance.

And why? All in the name of attempting to keep blood sugar levels in range? To not get hungry or to feel satisfied? Falsely thinking you are raising your metabolism?

As it turns out, an increase in meal frequency of 5-7 times a day does none of the above but will drive oxidative stress, inflammation, insulin resistance, weight gain, hormonal imbalance, and even hunger.

It can also push off our natural hormonal cascade into the evening, disrupting sleep and eliminating valuable detoxification mechanisms, REM sleep, and hormonal and neurotransmitter resetting. This is BAD.

Reality check: if you can’t go 4 hours without eating, you get headaches, dizziness, irritability, hunger pains, etc, then you have some work to do. It means your system is very weak, and likely you have a toxicity issue and or carb addiction.

None of those symptoms are usually from true medical hypoglycemia….aka low blood sugar, outside of insulin therapy.

What Should You Do?

Start by eating just 3 times a day. 3 meals a day with no snacking. If you are just starting your health journey, eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Don’t count calories or really eat anything special…..yet.

When hormones respond, hunger starts to ease, and cravings and emotional eating are more under control, we can talk about shifting WHAT you eat more specifically. First things first.

Give it 2 weeks, commit, and see how it goes. You will be pleasantly surprised.

This is your first important step and part of the reason eating less and exercising more does not work in the long run and can make you worse.