Hi this is Francisco DeJohn from vitacuchin.com.
We are talking about staying fit and the topic for this video is six meals a day. We are implementing here raw food strategies and also any form of nutrition strategies if you want to eat healthier. Here are some ideas that I want to share with you that I think are really essential on creating eating habits that you can easily maintain with the doctor and that are really healthy for you.
The idea is six meals a day. Now when you think six meals a day, it can sound like lot. But this includes snacks. It means that you have a meal, your first meal maybe 8 o’clock in the morning or 7 o’clock—that is for breakfast. And you have another break, 10 o’clock. When you have a break, you just have a snack at 10 o’clock. Then 12 noon right, that is lunch. You will have a very light meal as well. Then around 3 or 4 o’clock, you have another meal, another small snack. Then 6 o’clock that is the evening meal, dinner. And then you have another evening snack. So all together, that is already six meals.
What more is, many people have, but simply they do not realize that they are really having meals, right? You do not usually call a little snack a meal, but we will call it a meal because you will see that when you start eating more frequently in the day, the meals become much smaller and they seem to be more as equivalent.
Now, why do you want to have six meals instead of three? Well, if you check on your body, you will very frequently notice that after maybe two or three hours after meal, your body starts running out of energy. You start calling for more energy again and the goal here is not to wait until you enter into a crisis mode with your body until you start feeling tired or drained. You want to prevent that from happening and you want to give your body a boost before you actually start feeling a lack of energy.
So, you do not have to go to a place or to a moment when you start feeling hungry. Hunger shows that you are already going beyond that point, so you want to actually take something just at the smallest time of needing energy that is exactly when you want to start and have another meal.
When we are talking about meals, it is important to put in place a snack strategy that really works for you. A snack strategy means that you want to give your body something which is healthy and really gives you a boost of energy. This is very often something challenging because if you are out there working for instance in the office, very often you do not have enough ideas. You do not really know what to have as a snack so you have a chocolate bar; you have crap, really junk food which is going to be very bad for you. It is not going to give you the energy that you want and then it will turn you over-eat because of that. So it is essential to have snacks which are healthy, give you a boost of energy.
I have some ideas for you. You noticed that before I made another video on some raw flour cream, you have something here—this is mixed with raisins and some seeds, raw flour, banana and bit of water. I already showed you that in the previous videos, so I am not going to go through that again, but that is a snack.
This is a relatively big snack for maybe a 10 o’clock thing that works really well. And you have of course fruits, vegetables. How I can have these as a snack? Honestly, you will get used to it. When you start eating that kind of thing, raw, simply like that. The first time you go like, “I am not sure if I can get used to this.” But in fact, the more you do it, the more you feel the energy of it and you feel that it gives you boost so you do that more frequently. You start having these kinds of things such as snacks.
Simply you take the piece of vegetable and you eat it raw exactly like that, and this works really great. And you have of course, you can have a carrot, a banana, a fruit shake—this one contains banana, orange and pear, I think. All these are possibilities for snacks. I encourage you to go on and it a try and start thinking your six meals a day. This will really give a boost to your diet. I will tell you more on that on another video. Take care for now and bye-bye.
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