How I Lost Weight Eating 13 Times a Day

Over the years I tried many, many different diets to try to lose weight. They all worked for a few weeks, but each week I lost less and less. The more I did it, the less I loss. They all came to a complete stand still and my weight loss just stalled and refused to move.

One day I found an article in a magazine that featured a few ladies who had lost almost as much as 10 pounds a week just by eating more. I had heard about this before, that by eating small meals, rather than 3 large meals a day, makes your metabolism faster.

I decided to give it a try, mostly because I liked the idea of eating more times a day and I have a very slow metabolism. Only I would do it a little differently. I figured if eating 6 small meals a day would be good, why not eat 100 calories, every hour?

When I try something new, I like to start on a Monday. I feel like it's a great fresh start to the week. So the Sunday night before I started my new diet, I wrote down everything I would eat each hour. I thought I'd start at 9am and end at 9pm. Each hour I would eat 100 calories or pretty close to 100 calories, give or take a few. That would be a total of 1300 calories the whole day, which was within my recommended calorie intake for weight loss of between 1200-1500 calories a day.

Here is a real "menu" plan of what I ate one day during my 100 calorie mini meals diet:

9 am: 1 egg scrambled w/ 1/8 cup kraft fat free shredded cheddar cheese - 97 calories

10 am: 1 cup of sliced strawberries w/ half a navel orange - 81 calories

11 am: 1 string cheese w/ other half of navel orange - 91 calories

12 pm: 2 cups of iceberg lettuce w/ 1/4 cup tuna & 2 tbsp. fat free ranch dressing - 108 calories

1 pm: 100 calorie bag of popcorn - 100 calories

2 pm: 1 cup of sliced pears - 97 calories

3 pm: 2 1/2 cinnamon graham crackers - 100 calories

4 pm: 13 baby carrots w/ 1 tbsp hummus - 104 calories

5 pm: 1 3/4 cups red grapes - 105 calories

6 pm: 4 oz baked chicken breast - 125 calories

7 pm: vegetable stir fry: 2 cups of cabbage, 1/2 cup of zucchini, 1/4 cup green peppers & 1/4 cup of onions topped with 3 tbsp salsa - 92 calories

8 pm: Klondike Slim a Bear Bar - 100 calories

9 pm: 2 sticks of imitation crab meat - 90 calories

As you can see, I ate a lot that day! I got in a lot of fruits, vegetables, fiber and protein! I still got to eat what I considered "treats". I had this list printed out and I put it on my refrigerator so I could see exactly what I was going to eat. That morning, I prepared a lot of it so that I could just grab it out of the fridge and eat.

When I first started, I was really worried that I would spend my whole day getting my food together, but because I prepared most of it in the morning, it really was no trouble at all. This can work for anyone, even those on the go because you're eating just a little at a time.

Most days, I had to take my food with me driving my kids to and from school and I just ate it in the car. There are so many combinations of food that I ate during the week and I didn't feel like I was dieting because I ate so many times. It actually came to a point where I was tired of eating or too full!

Each week that I did this, in combination with working out 20-30 minutes a day, I lost up to 5 lbs a week! I'm not a diet expert or nutritionist, I just found a plan that worked for me, but please don't consider this medical advice. Always check with your physician before starting any diet plan!