If you’ve ever researched any type of diet, you’ve likely seen the many medical studies proving that small frequent meals boost your metabolism and aid in digestion.

Think of your body as a fire. When sparking a fire you add a little tinder to get it going. Soon the fire consumes the kindling, with it needing more fuel to keep from burning out. So you add one or two logs until you have a crackling fire. At this point, all your fire needs is a log every hour for it to keep burning brightly throughout the night.

Then again, people have a tendency to pile on logs, sometimes five or six at a time. As a result, the fire flares up into a big, out of control blaze. Burning hotter the timber is quickly spent, and before you know it the flames fade into embers needing more logs. So what did you accomplish? You wasted a bunch of wood unnecessarily.

Analogies aside, the moral is the same for dieting. The more food you put in, the harder your body works to digest it. Our bodies have a very clever way to handle too much food by putting the excess into storage. Translation: fat.

Smaller, more frequent meals kick starts your metabolism, allowing your body to burn calories at a constant rate. This allows the body to process food more efficiently and more effectively as energy instead of fat. A bonus effect is eliminating that bloated, stuffed feeling that follows a large meal.

Imagine how much more enjoyable Thanksgiving would be if we savored the meal over 3 hours instead of wolfing it down in one 20 minute sitting. Who says we have to eat it all at once? What would be wrong with having your salad at 12:00, some side dishes at 1:00, turkey and mashed potatoes at 2:00, with dessert at 3:00? Even better, you could have that second taste of Mom’s famous stuffing at 4:00 and a turkey sandwich at 5:00! Not a bad idea considering all the time it takes to prepare the meal in the first place.

It’s time to rethink your holiday, and everyday meals and how you eat them. The 60 Minute Diet takes small frequent meals to the extreme, showing you how to lose weight without ever being too hungry or too full. After a two week period the concept of small frequent meals becomes a way of life. You feel better, your body works more efficiently, you lose weight, while taking back control of your body.

Don’t wait another day, start with your next meal. As we all know, the hardest step to take is the first. When you begin today you won’t have to stress or think about it anymore, you will have taken that hard first step!

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