Tip: Eat 6 Small Meals

Rather than eating 3 large meals spaced every 6 or so hours, cut each meal in half. Make the same amount of food you normally would, but divvy it into 2 portions. Eat 6 “snack sized” meals spaced every 3 hours or so. This keeps the metabolism up throughout the day, and keeps the body constantly fueled. This also keeps the body out of “famine mode.” When the body enters this mode, it clings to everything the next time you eat (since it doesn’t know when it will eat again). This is why starvation diets do not work, and is the reason you will, eventually, regain all the weight you lost, plus some.

Tip: Breakfast is Important

Even if you eat nothing else, eat breakfast within 45-90 minutes of waking up. Breakfast can positively affect your body’s use of food more than any other meal. If you’re going to splurge on junkie foods, do it at breakfast – this will not only give you the whole day to burn off the crap, it will also lessen your yearning for it throughout the day.

You are what you eat

Remember: Diet is 70% of success in fitness: You are what you eat!