Stop Yo Yo Dieting By Eating More Often

You know, the thing I love about the glycemic index that we talked about yesterday is that it allows me to create a healthy eating plan based on the foods that I like and that my family will eat.

I don’t know about you, but I hate getting recipe books or diet plans and seeing tons of recipes for things like lamb or chutney or things I know my kids will never touch.

Being from the south, I want to know what to do with a pork chop, you know? Tell me whether or not I can eat collard greens and okra. (Well, ok, I’m being silly now – I hate both of those! But you get the point, right?)

I was very happy to discover that my lean cut of pork chop and pinto beans were actually a healthy meal. I threw in some sliced cucumber and tomato (what we call a “poor man’s salad”) and everyone at my table was happy last night – even my notoriously picky 7-year-old.

Nobody even mentioned the missing cornbread. But I know they all had enough, because my husband took leftovers to work for his lunch.

Well, now that we know how to choose the foods we should be eating, today we’re going to take the concept of keeping your blood sugar in check one step further.

This is going to go against everything many of you have ever heard about dieting.

You see, just like your blood sugar can spike after you eat, it can also dip low when you go too long without eating. Your body doesn’t want that to happen, so to keep the level somewhat constant, you’ll literally begin to feed on yourself.

This may sound good, but it isn’t – your body will begin to break down muscle instead of just fat. And you need muscle to keep your metabolism high – a higher metabolism burns more calories all day, even when you’re not working out.

So getting hungry actually makes it harder for you to lose weight.

There’s also a phenomenon known as “starvation mode” that you want to avoid at all costs. In a nutshell, our culture may have evolved into a modern society where food is almost never scarce, but our bodies haven’t.

Our bodies still remember our caveman days, when famines were real and it was possible to starve to death. So any time you deny your body the nutrients it needs trying to lose weight (by over-restricting calories or just going too long without eating) your system says “Famine!” and your body begins to take protective measures.

Your cells will begin holding on to the fat they’ve stored, literally as if your life depended on it. Next thing you know, you’ve hit a plateau and nothing you do will move that scale.

The key is to work with your body instead of fighting against it. Give it the nutrients it needs and it’ll happily turn loose of that stored fat – as long as your blood sugar remains at the right levels.

In order to keep your blood sugar stable – not spiking too high, and not dipping too low – you want to eat more often.

Yeah, I know! I told you this would go against conventional weight loss wisdom, didn’t I?

Dr. Scott has found that eating smaller meals every 2 hours is the perfect interval. It keeps you from ever getting hungry, which means that your blood sugar never drops and your body never comes close to thinking there’s a famine.

And as long as those small meals are low on the Glycemic Index, you will lose weight.

So today’s action plan is to start eating every other hour. Choose either even or odd hours, and eat a small meal each time. Examples would be some cheese cubes, an apple and a few peanuts – a great low-glycemic balance of proteins, carbs and good fats. Or maybe a scoop of tuna packed in water over a salad with a spoonful of plain yogurt.

The possibilities are endless!

We’ll be talking a lot more about Dr. Scott’s every-2-hour eating plan in our upcoming webinar, so if you haven’t registered yet (what are you waiting for? It’s FREE!) Click Here for the info: