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When we want to lose weight, we should be careful not to rely on out-dated theories about dieting. For example - You might have always thought that a few snacks here and there are what lead to the slippery slope of weight gain. How true is this in reality?

We've been brought up to believe that three square meals is the most health conscious way to eat. However, more enlightened thinking now suggests that we should eat more than three meals if we want to lose weight. Is there any truth in this?

Our natural inclination would be to think that more mealtimes will equal more calories. Long spaces between meals make us feel as though we're getting somewhere with our diet. What's really happening is quite interesting though.

We're likely to feel weak if we leave several hours between meals. Our enthusiasm for food therefore can be excessive when the next meal arrives. And often this leads us to eating larger quantities than we should. This predominantly occurs with our last meal of the day. Then we end up with more food in our stomach at completely the wrong time - shortly before we go to bed!

If instead we altered our day and prepared six small 'meals', that hungry feeling never develops. Our body appreciates the regular food input. This means it knows it can send food efficiently through our system and dispose of waste.

When the body is frequently starved of food, it retains fat for possible future energy reserves. Thus people who go hungry for long stretches of the day find their weight loss starts to slow down.

By eating several meals before the end of the afternoon, our calorific intake is geared towards the earlier part of the day. This allows the body to use food to effectively power our system, and not retain excess supplies of fat. If we start a meal feeling starving, we are also tempted to eat the wrong things.

Low fat/carb options go out of the running! What seems most appealing are the carbo loaders like bread, chips and pastries. Which are not going to do anything for a would-be slimmer! To sum up, we are much more likely to feel satisfied AND lose weight if we eat small regular meals and avoid starvation tactics.