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Alter your body's lean muscle to fat ratio and keep your metabolism burning all day long! Topics include Starvation mode, muscle vs fat, the perfect meal combination, meal timing and more! Eat to lose The first thing we are going to discuss in this podcast is how to eat to lose weight. It’s true, you can actually eat more and lose weight if you are eating the right foods. Every time you eat your metabolism actually speeds up a little bit to help your body digest and that’s just one of the many reasons why eating several meals throughout the day helps the body lose weight. When You keep your body nourished correctly, your energy levels remain high and your metabolism will increase. You may have heard about blood sugar levels being important to health and weight loss. I know past podcasts have touched on this subject. As your body starts to utilize your food and break it down, it gives you fuel in terms of blood sugar levels (that's being simplistic) and the effects will diminish over time. Kinda like putting fuel in a car and using it...eventually the fuel gets low and the card starts to sputter and quit unless you refuel it. Your energy may go down if your blood sugar levels drop due to lack of refueling. For example, you might get tired, drowsy, lightheaded or dizzy and that’s why it’s important to nip that in the bud and to actually eat before you get to that point. The best structure for meals is to eat every two to four hours and definitely don’t try not to go more than five or six hours without eating something. That's how “feedings” get divided into five to seven small meals through the day. And when you think about that it sounds like a lot but it’s not. That’s your three meals and two snacks. See now it’s not so scary. It’s breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner and maybe another snack. When you are choosing the right foods you can have more of them. When you are choosing the wrong foods you are not going to feel as good and you can’t have as much. Meal timing and the starvation mode Keeping a schedule of eating every several hours throughout the day will also help your body let go of fat. It will let go more easily when you are eating throughout the day because your body will expect food frequently and it won’t go into the starvation mode. Starvation mode it what can really damage your metabolism and make it hard to lose weight. Its what happens during the diet cycle.When the body hits the starvation mode which is going without food for more than six hours and I am not talking about nighttime when you are sleeping because your body is not using as much energy then, when your body hit starvation mode it will hold on to fat for long-term energy and it will use protein stores for current energy needs. Now you may think that sounds okay but protein your muscle, muscle is your metabolism, the more muscle you have the higher your metabolism will be and that’s why most men usually have a higher metabolism than women, they carry more muscle. But as women, if we increase our muscle to fat ratio then we will actually have that faster metabolism and be able to eat what we want and still look great. And I know that for fact because I struggled with this almost all my life and finally found the secret and you know what, it’s having more muscle. And once I switched that ratio now it’s a piece of cake, a little bit of a pun intended, to keep my weight where I wanted to be. I don’t even think about it anymore whereas it used to be a major obsession and that’s one of the reasons why I am doing this now to help everybody else see that you know what it’s doable, it really is. I am not any different than anybody else, I don’t have any special qualities or anything like that I just kind of keep plugging away and learn everything I needed to know that would work and not work. So I am trying to share that with you believe me it works....