In creating a six meals a day diet plan that works for me it needed to be super simple - both in terms of the food eaten and the times I eat the food.

I work from 8.30 in the morning (leaving home around 8.15am) till around 6pm (home at 6.15-6.30pm) so firstly I needed to work out a way to fit the six meals around a typical working day otherwise I’d never stick to it.

How far in advance you plan your meals is up to you. Some people like to plan a day in advance making a meal plan each evening for the following day.

Others prefer to make a weekly meal plan before they do their grocery shopping so they know exactly what they’ll be eating and therefore what they need to buy to stick to their diet.

Choosing how much to eat on the six meals a day diet is a reasonably simple affair.

We think in terms of portion sizes instead of calories or fat consumed which pleasantly means no checking tables of figures or labels on food.

We also aim to eat “first principles” food - that is natural foods not processed foods - such as lean meat, fruit, vegetables, milk, bread, pittas and so on.

Imagine running a bath with the plug out of the hole. If you run the water slowly, it trickles out of the plughole and the bath never fills up because the system can take the flow.

Then imagine running both taps as fast as they’ll go. There is more water going in than can go down the plughole at once so slowly the bath begins to fill up.

It’s a similar situation with your body and helps to demonstrate one of the pros of the six meals a day diet.

Firstly by understanding the pros of the six meals a day plan as outlined elsewhere on this site you will gain a valuable insight into the problems with eating three meals a day vs five or six meals a day.

But let’s extrapolate the reasons a little further here and compare the two diet regimes - the “classic” three meals a day that most people live on and the six meals a day diet stuck to by professional athletes, models and numerous everyday people like me.

All over this site we have included numerous links to sources of additional information on the six meals a day diet so feel free to click any that look of interest.

In addition let me give you a super-fast and easy introduction to the information available on the six meals a day diet.

This is probably not going to be the most wordy article on this site but I think it’s important you see a very real example of a day’s food on the six meals a day diet.

So below you’ll find an example of just what I ate yesterday and the day before so you can get an appreciation of what to expect.

Creating low fat recipes isn’t difficult using our base foods. In this section of the site I’d like to spend a few moments highlighting a few tasty recipes that may be of use to you with the six small meals a day diet.

Whether you use them “as is” or opt to simply use them as inspiration to create your own is entirely up to you.

In it’s simplest form the six meals a day diet does two things:

1) It cuts your daily intake of food into more, small meals so reducing energy slumps, maxing out your body with calories and laying the excess down as fat.

2) It cuts out the “rubbish” food and replaces it with healthy, supporting food that makes you look and feel much better.

Lets start our six meals a day menu with a list of foods you can eat. This is by no means exhaustive though so feel free to use your common sense or seek further advice from any of the external links on this site.