It doesn’t matter whether you are trying to take off a few pounds or fifty, you must still eat regularly to provide fuel for your body’s processes. Forget about skipping meals, because that will just defeat your purpose, and make you miserable to boot. Eating small meals throughout the day helps maintain your metabolism “furnace” and allows your body to use fat as fuel. If you need an example, think of the old coal furnaces that had to be constantly tended by adding fuel in order to keep a continual fire going. If the furnace went out, then it took a long time to get the temperature back up to a comfortable level. Fueling your body is similar. You want to supply a constant supply of the right kind of fuel.

How do you keep your body continuously fueled? You snack. Snacking can be very healthy if you eat the proper foods. The proper food list, however, does not contain the foods typically thought of as ’snacks’ - chips, candy bars and other sugary and high simple carbohydrate foods. What the list does include are foods that add some interest, some energy, and some protein to your diet.

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