You may have heard how extremely low-calorie diets are not actually good for you. You may also read about people who consume a massive amount of calories a day and are, unsurprisingly, massive. Basic logic might indicate that consuming less than 2000 calories per day would cause you to lose weight, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Your average person needs about 2000 calories a day to function properly. Any fewer than that, and your metabolism slows down, causing more of those calories to be stored as fat. The result of this is that you feel sluggish, unable to think, and unable to exercise.
Your body is shutting down, thinking that since you can't give it enough food to function properly, it will have to do with what you have given it.
The same also applies on the short term, eating throughout the day. By only eating three large meals during the day, your resting metabolic rate in between those meals is relatively slow, causing much of the food to be converted into fat, because your body thinks that it won't be receiving any more nutrition for some time.
The solution to this, of course, is to eat a small nutritious snack between meals. I like to bring a little cup of yogurt and an apple to work to eat between meals. You don't have to overeat, or eat anything even close to a full meal, but you need to give your body something to work with. No, chips and empty calories are no good. You should go for something with real nutritional value.
You'll notice yourself thinking clearer and feeling more energetic throughout the day, just by continually giving your body something to work with and boosting your resting metabolic rate.
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