The basis of any diet plan is to eat

The basis of any diet plan is to eat less and exercise more. We are always urged to consume fewer foods that contain calories from simple carbohydrates (sugar and processed flour) and more protein (meat, eggs and cheese), whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables. This is common sense to most people.

Less well appreciated is that a good diet gets you eating more food – in the form of eating more often.

Human genetics has developed over the millennia because of one important driving force – survival. Your brain feels threatened when you eat too little because your stomach sends up a message that it thinks the lack of food means you’re starving (locusts have wiped out the crops, or a tsunami has laid waste your habitat for hundreds of miles!) Your subconscious does not know that it is you who is deliberately causing the reduced caloric intake; it just goes into panic mode.

Reacting to this message, the body begins to break down muscle to use as energy but saves its fat stores for the “final” effort to save itself from what it thinks is impending death.