When you are on the six meals a day diet there isn’t really set rules to what you can or cannot eat. The plan basically just says to eat six small meals a day, lots of protein and other nutrients.
Many diets are this way. Some will tell you some things, like to eat a lot of meat, but they all kind of just say to make sure and get all the food groups in your diet such as, fruits, vegetables . . . etc.
A lot of diets give you serving amounts but then leave it up to you to use self control and actually follow through with it. There are a few that will tell you exactly what to eat and also a few who tell you when to eat which food groups. Such as, eat fruit for lunch.
So really this diet, besides telling you to have lots of protein, just says to make sure and eat well-rounded meals and get all your nutrients in. It emphasizes the importance that you eat breakfast within an hour after you wake up and then be consistent with the rest of your meals throughout the day.
The things that you will want to make sure and get into your diet are fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy . . . pretty much you will want to eat everything that is found in the main food groups of the food pyramid.
Your body will be strong if you get all these things because each has necessary nutrients and vitamins in them. Your body is a miraculous machine and each part of your body need to get what it needs so that it can continue to run.
You may need one vitamin for one part of your body to be able to function properly, but then you will need another for a different part of your body to function properly. If the focus is not on just losing weight, but on reaching all around health, that is what will give you more energy.
You do not have to eat one thing from each food group every time you eat one of your six meals, but if you are sure to have some food from each group and you spread it throughout your meals, then you will be healthy.
For example, you could have fruit in the morning and at meal four. You could have vegetables during meal two and five, you could have grains during meals one, three, four, five and six. You could have dairy during meals one, two, four, and six and meat during meals three and six.
The point is just to make sure you somehow fit it all in. Because of the frequency of the six meals, it is suggested that you take one day each week to prepare meals and store them in containers in your fridge. This way you just need to take the containers with you each day, you do not have to keep preparing meals every two hours. That would be very time consuming.
The diet suggests lots of protein during the six meals. They say one of the best ways to get your protein is through protein shakes. They say that many people now claim that protein shakes are one of their favorite items.
You can also have protein bars or any other protein product you can find. But it is important that you don’t forget to get all your other nutrients in to because your body needs balance. If you stress one area of nutrition, you will throw the other areas off.
So if you choose to do the six meals a day diet, be sure not to overeat and also be sure to get all the necessary vitamins and nutrients in your diet, not just some.