Eating several small meals per day helps to reduce weight
Each moment of the day blood sugar levels change. Optimally our blood sugar levels are between 65-90 before our first morning meal. After eating and digesting our food our blood sugar rises because the “sugar” glucose goes into our bloodstream so our cells can grab it and use it for fuel inside the cells. Once the cell has grabbed the glucose the level of sugar in our bloodstream gets lower causing a drop in our blood sugar. We experience this as hunger, headache, irritability or other symptoms. When people skip meals especially breakfast or eat only 1-2 meals per day it throws off your bodies blood sugars during the day. This negatively affects the bodies metabolism and the ability to lose weight and inches. The body gets use to the behavioral pattern of skipping meals and may stop the hungry urges but the cells are still in need of the fuel they would get from eating more regularly. The body begins to hold onto the small amounts of food it is given and refuses to release extra fat because the cell thinks it is “starving” even though there may be an abundance of fuel as fat stores in the body.
