Are You A Horse Or a Bear?

How do you eat throughout the day that is?

Do you eat like a horse and graze with small meals every couple hours? Or do you eat like a bear and try to stuff yourself full once or twice a day?

Well lets take a look at the two:

The Horse - he grazes all day long providing his body with a steady flow of nutrients. This pattern of eating allows him to eat many calories of healthy food and build a lean muscular figure.

The Bear - he eats all summer long stuffing himself once or twice a day with as much food as he can get. Resulting in him getting fat to survive the long winter in hibernation when he will not being eating for a couple of months. His metabolism slows and he burns less calories which helps him to stay a live.

How does this relate to you? If you were to eat every 2-3 hours all day long you would probably consume around 2500-3500 calories. I know what you are thinking that's too many, "I'll never lose weight eating that much". However, that assumption is not true. Most people do not eat enough each day. This is one of the biggest reasons people struggle with weight loss. If you consume less than 2000 calories your body responds to that by slowing your metabolism and storing everything you eat as fat (The Bear). The reason for this is a basic survival strategy. Years ago during times of famine when food was scarce you body needed to store everything in order to keep you alive. Today however, with food being plentiful we do not need this survival strategy, but our bodies don't know that. Which, is why we need to make it realize that we have enough to eat. And this is achieved by eating more and eating frequently.

Hopefully you are already like the horse. Eating every 2-3 hours, keeping your metabolism running high, and burning more calories all day. Eating this way will help you build a lean muscular body and provide you with the needed energy to workout at your best.

Eat Like A Horse!

Josh