Steady burn

Have you ever been around a campfire? You've got to keep it going so it's ready to cook over at certain times don't you.

So what do you have to do to keep it going so it's a steady fire?

Feed it, right?

Can you achieve this by feeding the fire once or twice per day?

No you can't, because you'll have a raging blaze after stoking it up and then it dies down more and more until you stoke it up again.

Your metabolism is like this. It works best if it's fairly steady.

Once your metabolism is back up where it should be, it takes continued "stoking" of the metabolic furnace to keep it there. If you starve it of fuel (crash diet), it dies down. So once you get your metabolic fire burning, you've got to keep feeding it fuel or the fire will die down. This means frequent small meals rather than a couple of big feeds a day.

And what you feed it too is important. You can't throw some crumpled newspaper on the fire, it's too quickly burning. For your body this is akin to eating the high GI foods.

You have to keep putting small amounts of wood (the right type of fuel) on the fire at regular intervals or the fire burns out. For your body this means quality nutritious food.

To get your metabolism burning hot and keep it burning cannot be achieved by sporadic, infrequent training, missing workouts or missing meals.