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I love foods. In fact I am a ‘Big Eater’ for a merely 168cm and 64kg. I enjoy food a lot where ever I go. I do eat late as well, sometimes of course. Last year, when I first started working as a dive guide in Layang-Layang Island Resort, I just could not resist the foods they served to us. Every single morning at 9am after the first dive ended, massive amount of breakfast were served.  Lunches were no less extravagant than breakfast either. With all those desserts available, it was hard to resist. And so my afternoon were always filled with high calories. Then along came the evening tea, with all those tasty pastries with shots of caffeine it all became one perfect day for me. About 3 hours later, dinner arrives as usual. I’ll be stuffing myself with rice, meats, sometimes a plate of spaghetti, end it up with dessert(again) and complete the night with cold beers. This would kept on going for 6 months. Great way to live.

Now, if we look from a fitness and health expert’s point of view. I will not be surprised if they labeled me as suicidal the instance I tell them this fact. For a regular person who does not exercise and have the same amount of food consumption as I did, that person will face the risk of obesity and health complications. For someone who exercises everyday and eating the same way as I did, that person might have problem managing a healthy weight. In reality, I should be a 100kg by now. But I am still maintaining my weight around 62 to 65kg until now.

So how did I manage to not get bloated up? I had to confess that during the 6 months period I did put on weight up to 69kg, which was acceptable at least. What is the secret? There was no secret at all actually. I was just enjoying my food as usual. And practice a few methods as well.

My first experiment was an advised from a friend, Chris who is a workout freak. The advised was take a big amount of breakfast for a kick-off, medium sized lunch, less dinner combined with massive workout 3 times a week. I did as he suggested and it work well for a while. The only problem was I get really hungry after each workout. So I came back to big dinner again. And obviously it didn’t go really well for me. After that, I got suggestion about adjusting and controlling my diet. The truth is, I am not at all a big fan over dieting to lose weight. I do believe it plays a major role in weight management but if the diet means I have to cut down my food intake dramatically and follow certain restrictions, say goodbye to my favorite dessert, I lost interest instantly.Plus a calorie-restricted diet will cause starvation response to the body resulting it to restore as much fat as possible for later use.

I started running searches for suggestion from the web. The redundancy of weight loss diet program was overwhelming, the rest would be just a gimmick to get you to spend your money on. Then I ran into this  topic. Calorie shifting. The explanation was really confusing. But with the assurance that I can still enjoy foods with this method enticed me to read more. In the end, it all came to one simple solution. Each meal needs to have different value of calorie each time. This way the body will have a unique reflex which generates metabolism it needs to burn fat all the time. So instead of creating a starvation response, you confused your body to keep on using up fat in an instance.  Somehow I still find it too troublesome, I’d have to calculate the amount of calories in my meal each time. That’s not the way for me. This was the example,

Meal 1 = 200 calories

Meal 2 = 500 calories

Meal 3 = 100 calories

Meal 4 = 400 calories

After reading few more reviews I came up with an idea. Why not just have different amount of meals every time? It is easier and no math to be included. How about this

big breakfast

medium lunch

light meal

medium size dinner

Plus at least 10 glasses of water a day, this is very important if you want to lose those extra. You can still enjoy sodas, coffees or juice in addition to this.

See, no numbers, same concept and easier. 4 meals a day with different portion each and cutting down on fatty food while skipping those fast food, my body started to burn fat even while sleeping. This however was only some part in the process. By combining this with short intensity exercise, the result was even better. Remember this is my own way and may not work the same way with everyone but it will show results. Get a proper guide if you have doubts please.

The conclusion is, stay with 4 meals a day and lots of water will improve the results. Be reasonable with your meal by taking more fibers and vegetables for the cleansing of your body system. Remember, never skip any meal especially breakfast. When you are hungry, your metabolism slows down as well. When you skip the breakfast, you will lose few hours of fat burning time as your metabolisms only kicks off on your first meal of the day. You only have 8 hours duration of normal active metabolism before it slows down again. Keep the cycle high with healthy food and you will keep burning fat even while sleeping.

I love foods. In fact I am a ‘Big Eater’ for a merely 168cm and 64kg. I enjoy food a lot where ever I go. I do eat late as well, sometimes of course. Last year, when I first started working as a dive guide in Layang-Layang Island Resort, I just could not resist the [...]