Many people who are trying to lose body fat believe that you must eat less often to get rid of those extra pounds. Sure, you may need to lower your daily caloric intake to burn more calories then you’re taking in, but you should actually eat more often per day to help burn fat. Instead of 2 or 3 larger meals per day. you should try to eat 5 or 6 smaller meals every day.

If you eat 3 large meals per day you’ll have a long time in between meals. The larger amount of calories and food consumed at each meal combined with longer periods between meals will put the body in a state where it tries to hold on to that extra body fat. It’s human nature – if the body is put through a period of time (even 5 or 6 hours) between meals after you consume half or a third of your daily caloric intake in one meal, it will go into a small starvation mode that’ll make it keep the fat on your body from being burned.

Your metabolism will be slower between meals as well. Waiting too long between meals will also cause you to be hungrier when you eat again, which means that you may may take in more calories than you should at that meal. Eating too much at a meal will likely make you lethargic and unenergetic afterwards – not good if you’re trying to keep your metabolism high to burn fat.

If you want to eat more to burn body fat you should eat 5 or 6 times a day with only 2 or 3 hours between meals. Doing this will help your energy levels throughout the day and your metabolic rate up. With only 2 or 3 hours between meals you won’t get that feeling of being too hungry so you’re less likely to splurge during your next meal. Eating itself also causes a rise in metabolism. Meals high in protein will give you the biggest metabolic boost to help you burn more fat by eating more often. Make sure to take in most of your daily carbohydrate intake in the day’s earlier meals, and eat very little carbs later in the day to put your body in an optimal fat burning state.

If you do eat 5 or 6 times a day you must be sure to keep every meal low in calories so you don’t take in more calories per day then your body burns. If you go to a restaurant order a half size portion or take half of a full meal home. Fast food is loaded with empty calories and should be avoided as much as possible.

Eating 5 or 6 times a day to lose body fat is a hard thing to do for most people. With work or school it may be hard to find the time to eat this often. Because of this you should keep a cooler with pre-prepared meals ready to eat when you get the chance. Protein shakes and meal replacement bars are convenient for getting those small meals in during the day.

As long as you take in less calories then you’re burning per day, eating more often to lose fat will work for you. Take your normal daily caloric intake and split it 5 or 6 times instead of the usually 2 or 3 and see what happens. You should like the results.