How many times have you heard a friend tell you that you need to eat every two and

a half to three hours, six meals a day in order to optimize your metabolism?

How many times have you turned around to another friend and asked them how often they eat

just so they could turn around and tell you that you need to be on a 16-8 fasting schedule

or you're never going to lose weight.

I'm here to tell you that both of them are right, both of them are wrong, and my name is

Anders Warner and this is Diesel Dad episode six and today we're talking about the final

10% of optimizing your metabolism and the four pieces that make up your actual metabolism

which are your BMR, your basal metabolic rate.

That's all of the chemical and hormonal reactions that happen inside your body.

60% is the biggest number and that's the thing that we want to work on the most.

The next piece, we can call this the thermal effect of physical activity, it's broken down

into two pieces.

On the left we have the low intensity non-exercise activity thermogenesis and on the right

the higher intensity piece which is our focused intentional workouts throughout the day.

Now the last piece, the thermal effect of food which is 10% of our total daily energy

expenditure.

That is so small.

It's like an insanely small amount especially when you start to think about you're going

to eat three meals a day, you're going to eat four meals a day, what is it?

Each meal is going to be somewhere around 2% of the total energy that you need to have

a strong lean in athletic body and reach your fitness goals.

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