There are some rare genetic reasons for failure to lose body fat, but in most cases it is simple human error. Poor, or ill-informed, choices are often the cause. Choices about what, how, and when to eat are often the root cause of diet failures. We’ll take a look at five of these choices and what you should be doing.
Here is the first reason.

Reason 1: Eat More Often

Many dieters make the mistake of skipping meals, thinking they are reducing their calories and speeding up the fat loss process. In fact, this may be doing just the opposite. Instead, you should be eating five to six small meals spread throughout the day, which for many people is an increase in the total number of meals.

Increasing the number of meals may sound crazy, but it works on a few fronts. First, skipping a meal may reduce the calories that would have been consumed in that meal, but inevitably you end up consuming more in your remaining meals. You will be hungrier in the remaining meals and you will justify the extra helping by convincing yourself that it is still less than you would have consumed in the skipped meal.

To illustrate this, let’s look at the traditional three-meal eating plan.
Normally, you would eat breakfast, lunch, and supper. It comes time to lose a little body fat, so you decide to skip lunch. In the morning you plan out your day and decide that since you are not eating lunch you should have an extra bagel with cream cheese to get you through until supper. All in all not a bad choice, but it does add as much as 350 extra calories, depending on the size of the bagel and the type and amount of cream cheese.

You work all day and come home for supper quite hungry because you skipped lunch. At supper that spaghetti was so good you decide that since you skipped lunch you could have an extra helping. This could add as much as 800 to 1000 extra calories. So, what started out as a plan to cut calories turns out to be no savings at all. The extra helpings could add as much as 1350 calories in the end. How many calories was lunch?

The other issue with skipping meals is a metabolic one. Your body has a set energy need to get through the day. All of the processes going on inside the body require energy. Any extra events require additional energy. If you walk to work, climb the stairs, workout, or simply clean the house you require additional energy. Eating meals actually requires more energy, as well. The body requires energy to digest and process the foods you take in.
So, every time you eat your metabolism must increase for a period of time (about an hour.)

Not only does eating more frequent smaller meals increase the metabolism throughout the day, skipping meals may actually lower the metabolism.
The body is hard-wired to protect itself. It does not like to be starved. If it senses a period of starvation it will slow down the energy production in the body to conserve energy for future needs. It quickly shuffles extra energy in the blood stream to fat stores and slows down the processes within the body. If your body is used to getting three meals a day at regular times, missing just one can trigger the starvation response.

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