Mirror Your Metabolism

Take a look at the typical American diet and here’s what you get:

Breakfast is the smallest meal of the day, if consumed at all.

Lunch is a decent, moderate sized meal.

Dinner is by far the largest meal of the day, often times consumed late at night.

The problem with this set up? It has you eating your largest meal of the day in the evening hours when metabolism is at its lowest point.

Essentially, the timing and size of meals in the average diet are the exact opposite of what they should be.

To fix this, use what I call the “Mirror Your Metabolism” approach.

Metabolism is highest in the morning, so make breakfast (not dinner), your largest meal.

Beyond that, carbohydrate tolerance is also at its peak upon awakening, which simply means that your body is more apt to handle a high carbohydrate intake in the morning hours (carbohydrate tolerance is at its lowest point in the evening).

This means that you can GET AWAY with a high carb, high calorie meal in the morning, with this meal actually stoking your metabolism to burn more calories throughout the day.

Do you want to eat a big breakfast? Go right ahead; it will benefit both your body and metabolism greatly.

On the other hand, dinner should be the smallest (not largest) meal of the day, and should also limit carbohydrate.

Summary – Here’s how to mirror both your metabolism and carbohydrate tolerance for optimal results:

Breakfast – Large sized meal, higher carb intake

Lunch – Moderate size meal and carb intake

Dinner – Light sized meal, lower carb intake