Why Weight

How to Get Fat - The Sumo Diet Part 1

By Bryan Miller

Ever wonder why you gain weight? Ever sit down and think "Maybe I'm doing something wrong" and re-evaluate what it is you're doing to lose the extra "fluff" around your waistline?

Well, I am going to give you some sure-fire methods to gaining weight, and you can see if some of these "tips" are in your current eating plan.

1. Eat 3 Meals a Day.
Eating 3 meals a day means that you're eating either too much at once, or not enough. Even if you are "cutting back" on portion sizes, your body's metabolic rate is moving at a snails pace.

Keeping small meals throughout the day (yes, that would mean eating when you're hungry) will keep your body's metabolism higher. Not only does it speed up your metabolism, it also gives your body the needed (and desired) nutrients in doses that the body can handle.

If you're eating large amounts of nutrients at once - like a large salad, great for you, but in large amounts, might not be as good as you think - you're not getting the amount of nutrition that you need. Your body throws away what it doesn't need in your urine, and other waist.

Eating small meals a day keeps the dosage of vitamins down, and nutrients can actually be absorbed into your system.

2. Drinking No Water.
Having no water in your diet means you're not digesting well, you're retaining water, and carbs are not being metabolized well. Not to mention you're probably not feeling very well.

If you stay hydrated throughout the day, your body works. Period. The body is made up of primarily 2 compounds. Protein, and water. Most of which is water. If your body does not have its daily water intake, there can be many health risks involved.

Water also has a great role to play in weight gain as well. If the body is not getting enough water, it will retain what it can, leaving you puffy, and "bloated". This is what happens when people lose "water weight". Most of this fluid is thrown out as soon as the body begins to get enough water into its system.

3. Eating Before Bed.
Food before bed is the Sumo's friend. The metabolism is at it's very lowest at night because the body is rebooting. While you sleep, your body is reorganizing itself.

When your body is at this point, the last thing you want to give it is carbs, fat, and protein to store. "Since I'm not going to burn this now," says the body. "I might as well just store it away!"

And thus, it places the extra energy into fat stores.

If you're looking to gain weight, eat food within the last 3 hours of your day. But if you're looking to maintain, or lose, eat no later than 3 hours before sleep time.

This concludes Part 1.

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posted by Cheryl Levesque @ 12:44 PM