Looking Hot - How Many Times You Should Eat
By Derek Vitalio - Seduction Science

Getting social value for creating attraction in women can come from many sources.

However, one source of social value that can work for you 24x7 - whether you’re thinking about it or not - are your looks.

You don’t need to have great looks to be successful with beautiful women at all. After all, social value comes from many sources – having social proof or leading a girl’s peer group for example.

And good looks alone won’t get you laid, if that’s your ONLY source of social value.

Still, if you’re serious about maximizing your success with women, you want to fully exploit every avenue of getting social value that you can.

And having good looks – specifically, having a muscular, chiseled, formed body – is one of them.

For instance, I know a guy who is now in his early 40s and he regularly has girls in their early 20s.

Unlike most men his age, he takes care of himself. He works out and eats right. And it shows – he looks good.

Visually, he is attractive to women. They look at him, and that feeds his confidence. His success keeps him working out and eating right, causing more success. It’s a virtuous, reinforcing cycle.

But here’s the problem: most men let their bodies go as they get older. They have no muscle mass. They grow a gut for a belly. They don’t groom themselves well. They dress dumpily. In other words, they don’t take care of themselves.

At around age 26 or 27 something happens to our bodies – our metabolism slows down and our body stops producing new muscle mass on its own. Up until age 26 or 27, you can basically eat like a pig and not exercise and your body will still stay fit and thin to some degree. But by the late 20s, your muscle mass begins to slowly wither away and that gut starts to appear.

And by age 40, most men look downright bad.

If you’re really out of shape, many girls will be too embarrassed to be seen with you with their friends and family – even if the girl is otherwise attracted to you for other reasons.

It’s like when you met a fat chick. She’s sweet, nice, pretty face, wild in bed, loving, fun personality, highly sexual – a great girl to be with. But you don’t stick with her because you’re embarrassed what your friends of family might think.

That’s why it’s so important to take care of yourself – and to start right away.
If you want to have a really gorgeous body – I mean ripped and muscular, there’s three components you have to follow.

The first component is nutrition.

The second component is weight training (or anaerobic exercise).

And the third component is cardio / aerobic exercise.

Let’s start with the first - nutrition.

You have to eat right. If you don’t eat right, no matter how much exercise you do, you’re not going to get a chiseled, muscular body.

But the first question to ask is not WHAT to eat, but HOW MANY times should you eat.
How Many Meals Should I Eat?

The biggest mistake people make in getting fit and lean is that they cut down their meals to only two a day.

This is a HUGE blunder.

Eating two meals a day usually backfires – it will cause you to get FAT.

When eating only twice a day, your body feels hunger and in response it goes into basic survival mode.

Because your body isn’t taking in enough calories, it responds by having the insatiable urge to eat SUGARS and FATS. Your body screams in pangs of hunger to stock up on as much fatty and surgary food as possible, food that can be converted into fat quickly.

After all, when you’re continually hungry every day, your body will think there’s the possible danger of starvation and DEATH. After all, it doesn’t know that you’re living in the 21st century and that there’s plenty of food everywhere. For all it knows, you’re living in a cave in the middle of the Ice Age and there’s not enough food to last through the winter. Your body has evolved over millions of years to think that when you’re not eating enough food, that means that there’s a real scarcity of food.

So very rationally your body wants to protect your survival - by converting the food you eat into fat when it feels hunger.

So when you eat only twice a day, and your stomach is receiving those hunger signals throughout the day - that McDonald’s hamburger, fries, and soda look VERY tempting. And no wonder - your body is naturally trying to PROTECT you from what it thinks if the threat of starvation and death.

So how many times should you eat to be lean and fit and healthy?

The answer is FIVE TIMES A DAY.

FIVE TIMES A DAY.

Get that number into your head, because eating five times a day is absolutely critical to leading a healthy lifestyle.

First of all, let’s examine where the tradition of eating three meals a day came from.
Eating only three meals a day - breakfast, lunch, and dinner - is a modern, artificial, unnatural, and quite recent invention used to accommodate the nature of capitalist production.

Back when humans lived in small bands of hunters and gatherers, people grazed throughout the day. People ate whenever they could find food and whenever they could get it.

As culture advanced to farming, little changed. Food was simple, and whenever you would get hungry you ate. People generally ate five, six, even seven times a day.

It was only when modern, industrial, capitalist factory work came into being that the three meals a day tradition was instituted.

Farmers left the farm and craftsman left their shops to work in the factory. They had to show up at work at a particular hour, leave work at a particular hour, and the factory owner wanted as much work out of the workers as possible to make as much profit as possible.

So back in the 1800s, the worker would wake up, eat a meal called “breakfast” before work, and work through the entire day without stopping – as much as 16 hours in many cases. At the end of the day the worker would come home exhausted, and have a meal before going to bed.

Factory owners did allow workers to have a small break during the day however – during which time workers would eat their lunch.

So the three meals a day is really an accommodation to the grueling schedule of capitalist factory work.

The situation still sticks, though in most cases the work schedule is not as extreme. You wake up, eat breakfast, go to work, eat lunch, work some more, and then come home and have dinner. It’s not easy to graze and have seven or eight or even five small meals throughout the day.

However, having seven or eight small meals throughout the day is what your body is biologically used to. Having seven or eight small meals throughout the day tells your body – “Calm down, everything is fine. There’s food around. The crop is good. The hunting is good. There’s no threat of starvation. There’s no need to store fat on the body to get through the hard times.”

Since your body is not getting hungry signals, it doesn’t feel the need to pig out on hamburgers, fries, and soda. It’s easy to stay in control of what you eat because your body is not screaming at you all the time for fats and simple sugars.

So how do you work eating five times a day into your schedule?

Well, obviously you already have breakfast, lunch, and dinner set. The trick is squeezing in two more meals on the job.

They don’t have to be large meals. For example, a small meal might consist of a protein shake, or a nonfat yogurt and some chicken breast.

Some people have the luxury of eating while they work. For example, if you work in an office behind a desk, you can often drink a protein shake while you work.

If your job is not so flexible, if you have a one hour lunch break you can ask your manager for two fifteen minute breaks to eat your small meals and a thirty minute break to eat your lunch.

And if your job is so inflexible that you can’t grab a few extra minutes to eat quick meals on the job, then your job is jeopardizing your health – and you should find a new one that respects human beings for being what they are – delicate organisms that need to take care proper care of their bodies to stay healthy.

Next time, I’ll talk some about WHAT to eat, and give you some no-brainer advice that has worked for me.

Derek Vitalio
Seduction Science