Hi guys, welcome back. Before we get into the episode, just a quick reminder that Empowered

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Now on to the episode.

Today we're going to talk about our five to six small meals really better

for you for fat loss and does it essentially increase your metabolism. So I'm just going to go

ahead and rip the band-aid off. No, it is false. It does not increase your metabolism, but I am

going to explain why we've been

led to believe that and why it's not necessarily the case. So, contrary to popular belief,

the amount of meals that you consume in a day does not increase your metabolism. The reason

that we've always been told that is because of the thermic effect of food.

So what thermic effect of food or TEF means, that's, we actually burn calories when we are

digesting and absorbing the food that we eat.

However, it is not a significant amount enough,

significant enough amount of calories burned to increase our metabolism.

It's relative to the overall amount of calories, not the number of meals.

So if we look at 1 at 1500 calories as the example,

and you are somebody that's eating six meals a day and they're 250 calories apiece, it's going to be

burning the exact same amount of calories digesting and absorbing that as if you were eating three larger meals

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