The biggest mistake people make in getting fit and lean is that they cut down their meals to only two a day.

This is a HUGE blunder.

Eating two meals a day usually backfires – it will cause you to get FAT.

When eating only twice a day, your body feels hunger and in response it goes into basic survival mode.

Because your body isn’t taking in enough calories, it responds by having the insatiable urge to eat SUGARS and FATS. Your body screams in pangs of hunger to stock up on as much fatty and surgary food as possible, food that can be converted into fat quickly.

After all, when you’re continually hungry every day, your body will think there’s the possible danger of starvation and DEATH. After all, it doesn’t know that you’re living in the 21st century and that there’s plenty of food everywhere. For all it knows, you’re living in a cave in the middle of the Ice Age and there’s not enough food to last through the winter. Your body has evolved over millions of years to think that when you’re not eating enough food, that means that there’s a real scarcity of food.

Very rationally your body wants to protect your survival - by converting the food you eat into fat when it feels hunger.

When you eat only twice a day, and your stomach is receiving those hunger signals throughout the day - that McDonald’s hamburger, fries, and soda look VERY tempting. And no wonder - your body is naturally trying to PROTECT you from what it thinks if the threat of starvation and death.

So how many times should you eat to be lean and fit and healthy?

The answer is FIVE TIMES A DAY.

However, having seven or eight small meals throughout the day is what your body is biologically used to. Having seven or eight small meals throughout the day tells your body – “Calm down, everything is fine. There’s food around. The crop is good. The hunting is good. There’s no threat of starvation. There’s no need to store fat on the body to get through the hard times.”

Since your body is not getting hungry signals, it doesn’t feel the need to pig out on hamburgers, fries, and soda. It’s easy to stay in control of what you eat because your body is not screaming at you all the time for fats and simple sugars.