This is especially true when I eat out since so many restaurants have
much higher calorie meals than I normally would eat at home.
I have heard mention of people who say that eating a
slightly higher calorie meal or two once every 1 - 2 weeks helps stimulate leptin that might have dropped on their regular diet.
The best way to overcome this obstacle is by making sure you eat at least six
high calorie meals per day, sleep a minimum of 7 hours every night and take 24 - 48 hours off the gym between two strenuous workouts.
At issue is refeeding syndrome, a metabolic disturbance that can affect severely underweight patients with cancer, starved war survivors and patients with anorexia nervosa who return too quickly to
high calorie meals.
So eating
a high calorie meal (of course not junk food but well balanced one) after a prolonged period of starvation is the way to go.
Although such trainees may eat enough calories at times, they often compensate for those high - calorie days by lowering their calories on the following day or even drastically lowering the calories during the rest of the day when they ate
a high calorie meal.
Even if you are eating 3
high calorie meals every day, your body may still be burning through those calories like they are nothing.
Here's the big idea: How can you substitute in a low calorie smoothie for
a higher calorie meal - item that you normally eat?
If you're currently maintaining your weight, then you substitute in a volumetric and just as filling vegetable smoothie for
a higher calorie meal - item that you were previously eating regularly, you'll lower your caloric intake into a calorie deficit and start losing weight.
Now before you throw your arms up in disgust and call me crazy for recommending such a high fat,
high calorie meal, keep in mind to scale back the portion sizes for your own caloric goal.
I do not stray from my diet except one day per week when I eat
a high calorie meal (normally pizza) as a treat.
Also, after weight training, I am eating my highest carb meal (and
highest calorie meal for that matter) of the day.
Smoothies can help replace
those high calorie meals.
I have read several blogs that suggest that breaking your diet pattern can cause a «whoosh» to break, so either eating a high carb meal or
a high calorie meal can spur one on.
This will prevent you from throwing off the scale from
your high calorie meal on Saturday (especially if it's a high carb or high salt meal which can really throw off the scale from the possible retained water).
Schools have learned that giving children
a high calorie meal on the days the children take high - stakes testing can increase test scores 4 to 7 % - an indication that children are not getting adequate calories on non-test days.