One of the most prevalent myth is that eating more frequently speeds up your metabolism.  Eating six times a day isn’t going to help you burn more calories than eating 3 times a day.  The idea behind this myth is thermic response —calories burned processing the food you eat.  The idea is the more frequent you eat the higher the thermic response and thus more calories are burned.  A lot of people swear by this as the reason why the lost weight.  They misunderstand the cause and effect of the reason.   Its a matter of eating pattern.  They eat SMALLER frequently which makes them less hungry causing them to eat less— thus creating a CALORIE DEFICIT.     The last two words is the ONLY reason you lose weight/ body fat….creating a CALORIE DEFICIT…not eating more frequently.  So eating six times a day isn’t going to speed up your metabolism anymore than eating 3 times a day.

Bonus:  Muscle doesn’t burn as much calories as people think

Carbohydrates doesn’t contribute to fat gain the way some people think—-that is DIRECT conversion to fat (a process called De Novo Lipogenesis). The 2 times this RARE occurrence happens is

1) Total dietry fat is under 10%

2) 700-900 grams of carbs per day for 3 straight days from a carb depleted state (so the time would be shorter if you were not carb depleted).

Beans

I love beans!  Its almost perfect,  it contains  protein, carbohydrates, fiber and essential B vitamins.  One of the best part is beans as a carbohydrate has such a low glycemic index that it isn’t enough to cause  much of an insulin response. If you recall, insulin blunts the body’s ability to burn fat since its a storage hormone——> so beans is great  if you’re on a low carbohydrate diet trying to shed fat fast. However,   beans  is an incomplete protein because it doesn’t have certain essential amino acids (the building block of proteins).  The good news is combining beans and rice form a complete protein.