The 6-Meals-A-Day Diet
I recently got put on a new medication, generally used to treat patients with Hypoglycemia/Type 2 Diabetes, yet I have not been officially diagnosed with either of these conditions. My doctor is using it to treat a hormonal imbalance and to help me monitor my glucose levels.
Anyway, the important thing that he told me to do while on this medication, was that I needed to change my diet so that I eat every three to four hours. This week has been quite a change from my usual one, maybe two meals a day and has transformed into six, I repeat, SIX, meals a day! Although the proportions are much smaller, I am beginning to realize more the importance of keeping fuel (food) in my body.
My day usually begins between 5:30 and 6 am. where I get ready for work.
Between 6:30 and 7:30, I try to cook a nutritional breakfast for myself, and my two roommates who work at a ranch all day, but some days the snooze button wins and we end up eating cereal, granola bars or pop tarts in the car on the way to work.
Around 10, its time for the mid-morning snack. I usually have a nutri-grain bar or a bag of 100-calorie cookies.
Around 1, its lunch time! Being a college student, I eat lots of left overs from dinner. If I do go out with someone from the office, I try to be cautions of what I am eating, making sure that I am making healthier choices when purchasing my meals.
Around 3:30, I have an afternoon snack, usually I have something salty like pretzels or goldfish, or I have something sweet, like fresh fruit, or cookies (if I didn’t have them earlier).
Around 7, is usually the time I finally get home and get dinner made. I usually try to get meat and vegetables worked into my dinners. Once again, I try to make healthier decisions if I go out, but occasionally I splurge and go for the greasy bacon cheese-burger.
Around 10, I have a desert type snack, usually something sweet, to satisfy that late night sweet-tooth munchies. I try to have a fruit or vegetable and a dip (apples and caramel, strawberries and chocolate, or celery & peanut butter) or sometimes a small serving of ice cream.
I have learned that when I am eating my major meals, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, that it is important to eat slowly, and drink lots of water, so that you are more aware of when you start feeling full, which prevents you from overeating, and feeling miserable later.
It’s crazy to think that all of this has happened in a week, but I think this new diet is working, I can already feel my pants fitting a little more loosely.
I’ll report back in soon, and tell you how its going!
But for now, you should all try changing from one to three meals a day, and try going for six, and see what kind of POSITIVE effects it can have on you, when done in moderation!
until next time,
rebau
