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Why eating 5 to 6 meals a day is the way to go when it comes to losing body fat, eliminate food cravings and having increased energy!

In our final installment I will discuss what the right amount and the right combinations of food should be in each meal following the Rapidly Ripped Eating Strategy – to turn you into a fat burning machine!

The great thing about the Rapidly Ripped Eating Strategy is how simple it is to create a balanced Rapidly Ripped Meal.  And the other great thing is we do not count calories or weigh food but instead pay attention to portions and the right combinations of food.

So what is the right portion and right combinations to follow on the Rapidly Ripped Eating Program?

Here is how simple it is to create a Rapidly Ripped Meal:

1. First off look at your plate and divide it into thirds.  Then…
2. Choose a portion of lean protein the size of your Palm, such as chicken breast, lean ground turkey meat, lean red meat or fish.
3. Choose a portion of complex carbohydrate the size of your clenched fist, such as sweet potato, yam, brown rice or whole wheat pasta.
4. Add a portion of vegetables to at least 2 of your meals each day, such as broccoli, spinach, asparagus, brosal sprouts, zucchini, lettuce, tomato etc.
5. Consume one table spoon of unsaturated fat daily or three portions of salmon each week.  Examples are avocados, nuts and seeds, olive oil, natural almond, sunflower or cashew butter, flax seed oil etc.

So there you have it!  Eating the right food, in the right portion sizes and in the right combination, which means making sure you include protein and complex carbohydrates in each meal.   This not only reduces your cravings, but helps feed your muscles by providing both the amino acids from proteins together with carbohydrates, which help shunt the protein into the cells to helps build quality muscle.

Scientific studies and research have confirmed that combining and balancing protein and carbs in each meal stabilizes blood sugar and insulin and tended to decrease body fat, cholesterol and offers you greater feelings of energy and lower level of fatigue.  In another scientific study it was also shown that  people who eat a balance of protein and carbs have better digestion and absorption of nutrients and a higher thermogenic or fat-burning effect from each meal.  And in addition, studies show that meals balanced in protein, carbs and essential fats help you control your appetite and experience less food cravings.  What more can you ask for from an eating plan?

By Charles Damiano
Nutrition and Fitness Expert
Bestselling author of “Rapidly Ripped”
The Ultimate Fat Burning System for Life!
Body-for-Life 2004 Grand Master Champion Winner

Why eating 5 to 6 meals a day is the way to go when it comes to losing body fat, eliminate food cravings and having increased energy!

Eating six small balanced meals per day trains your brain that it is “never really hungry” due to the constant stretch on the upper stomach that comes with this kind of regular eating.  See when your upper stomach gets stretched your stomach feels full and it then sends a signal to your brain that you are full and you feel satisfied.  The appetite satisfaction that you get from the protein rich meals balanced with good Carbs on the Rapidly Ripped Eating program, last about 2-1/2 – 3 hours!  In addition, since you are eating every 3 hours on the Rapidly Ripped Eating program, you basically don’t have time to develop those deep hunger cravings that messes up just about any eating plan and just when your stomach is beginning to growl and feeling hungry it is time for your next meal.

With this type of eating strategy you are training your brain that there is no time to really ever feel hungry.  Your brain and body are cared for and its nutrient needs are being met.  This is why the six meal eating strategy you will learn in the complete Rapidly Ripped Fat Burning System for Life severely decreases and in some cases eliminates food cravings!

When you follow a DIET you are depriving yourself of food and starving your body but on the Rapidly Ripped Eating plan you are feeding and nourishing your body every 3 hours, six times a day so when do you have time to feel hungry and when do you fit in cheating?  Constantly stretching your stomach TRICKS your brain into feeling full most of the time.  When you begin the program you will be amazed that you are never really hungry and you feel like you are always eating.  You may even feel like you want to skip a meal because you are always satisfied and may even feel full-but Don’t!  Remember, skipping meals will only begin to slow down your metabolism and place you back into a fat storing mode tricking your body into thinking it is approaching famine or starvation mode and will hold onto the FAT!

Eating six meals a day creates a “metabolic environment” that supports your energy and muscle metabolism, while helping you burn bodyfat.  Study after scientific study has shown this to be so and a recent published report in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition cites that people who ate six times a day had a faster metabolism rate than those who ate just three meals daily.  The study showed eating meals frequently throughout the day every 3 hours, like we promote on the Rapidly Ripped Eating Strategy, allows you to burn fat more efficiently!

In part 3, I will discuss what the right amount and the right combinations of food should be in each meal – to turn you into a fat burning machine!

By Charles Damiano
Nutrition and Fitness Expert
Bestselling author of “Rapidly Ripped”
The Ultimate Fat Burning System for Life!
Body-for-Life 2004 Grand Master Champion Winner