Six Small Meals a Day

In October I was diagnosed with Adrenal Gland Insufficiency. At that time I made some changes to my diet and one of those changes was to switch from three squares to six small meals a day, which helps with the healing of the adrenal glands by providing a steady stream of fuel throughout the day for balance. But this method of eating isn't only for adrenal gland repair.

This "energy balance" method of eating allows you to take in a similar number of calories as you're burning off. As you burn calories throughout your day–by exercising, walking from the parking lot, taking the stairs–the calories you take in should stay within similar levels of the calories you burn. As long as you're constantly fueling your body with small meals, you're constantly teaching it to shed fat. When you think about it, limiting yourself to three meals a day you are asking your body to operate normally all the time, even though you are intermittently depriving it of fuel then dumping big heaps of calories into it every 6 hours or so.

To keep those fat burners firing, eat your six meals like this:

| Alternate larger meals and smaller ones.
| Eat your snacks roughly 2 hours before lunch, 2 hours before dinner and roughly 2 hours after dinner.
| Eat to fit your own lifestyle and schedule, but an ideal schedule looks something like this:

8:00 AM – Breakfast
11:00 AM – Snack
1:00 PM – Lunch
4:00 PM – Snack
6:00 PM – Dinner
8:00 PM – Snack