Twitter topic of the day - how to eat right

This post is my twitter daily tips / topic of the day. Follow me on Twitter @ezhomefitness

My #questionoftheday is how often do you eat? Just 3 meals a day? 2 meals a day? Snack throughout the day?

So... how often should you eat? How often you eat is just as important to your diet as what you eat.The average person skips breakfast, has a bad lunch and then eats dinner and flops on the couch. Does that sound healthy to you? Then of course there are all the bad snacks in between that they are noshing on all day long. Bad, bad, BAD!Eating bad like that, there is little surpise as to how their bodies look and feel. So, how often should you eat? Let's start with breakfast - MOST important meal of the day!! Let me repeat - MOST important meal of the day!! Breakdown the word "breakfast", what do u have? Break & fast. Breakfast is the meal that is breaking the fast of not eating all night. Your body is starving for nutrition after having fasted for however long you slept - that's a fast of 6, 7, 8 hours. This is why you must eat breakfast, especially when you are training hard. A healthy body requires the proper nutrition to operate at peak so I've shown you why breakfast is so important. When to eat next? 2 hours later! Yes, that's right. Eat a small snack 2 hrs later. Then eat every 2 hours for a total of 5-6 meals throughout the day. Eat protein at every meal and snack. So your food schedule should be breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, snack (optional) for the day. Sounds like a lot of eating doesn't it? It is! It will take some getting used to because most people under-eat! But there are many benefits The big benefits of eating this way is that u will raise your metabolism and keep it stoked throughout the day. Exercise will stoke it more! Think of it like a steam engine that keeps getting coal (fuel) to keep the engine going. That is how your metabolism is & needs to be fed. The other big benefit is that eating all these small meals & snacks will keep your blood sugar & insulin response stable = less fat storage! Just keep the meals small! You are taking in a lot more calories than you'll be used to so portion control will be vital. So there you have it - one of the biggest dieting tips you can have. Now it's up to you to put it into effect. ;)

#Quote of the day: Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. - Arthur Koestler