Eating every 2 – 3 hours won’t speed up your metabolism

Eating every 2 - 3 hours won't speed up your metabolism

Play me

Something that sounds so simple - could not be further from the truth.

This is one pseudoscientific “fact” that used to dictate my life.

I used to eat every 2-3 hours simply because I thought it was speeding up my metabolism.

I thought if I waited between meals to a point of hunger that my metabolism would slow down.

I thought that the FEELING of hunger meant that I was going to go into “starvation mode”

So I want to be the person that I needed when I thought this.

To tell you that this is BS. This is not a fact. This will not happen and this is not a thing.

This will NOT speed up your metabolism.

Metabolism is often simplified and yet it is a pretty complex topic that is specific to each and every one of you.

I wanted to offer a solution at the end of this post to what does increase your metabolic rate (ie speed up your metabolism)- but to be honest I don’t feel comfortable with simplifying it in an Instagram post.

It’s a hard one to answer because yes, of course, there are ways...

But I also don’t think focusing on increasing your metabolism is really something we need to be specifically focusing on in our day to day life.

And I feel that giving some dot point solutions will not be representing the message I want to promote.

So, for now, I will leave it here and I hope you understand where I’m coming from.