Eating 5 -6 meals per day will produce maximum fat loss, energy, and sustained physical performance capacity. Severely cutting your calorie intake is NOT the key to permanent fat loss and a healthy lifestyle. Diets don't work. Most diets restrict your calories and slow down your metabolism. This causes your body to go into starvation mode. In starvation mode, your body burns very few calories and experiences extreme hunger pangs.

Fortunately, there is a solution. Eat 5 - 6 healthy, small meals per day. Frequent, small, healthy meals provide a number of benefits that will help you reach the highest fitness level possible while burning the maximum, safe amount of fat.

Hydration quick facts:
• The human body contains 55 per cent to 75 per cent water (depending on body composition)
• The brain is 75 per cent water
• Muscles are 75per cent water
• Bones are 22 per cent water

Benefits of good hydration:
• Joint lubrication
• Assists in the removal of toxins
• Increases physical and mental alertness and performance capacity
• Helps to energize the body
• Assists fat loss

Below are recommendations from Optimal Performance Fitness.
• 0.5 - 1.0 ounces of fluid per pound per day
• 16 ounces of fluid two hours prior to training or competition