Thread: Time to eat

it depends on what my goals are. if i'm trying to bulk & i'm hungry, then i eat. right now while trying to drop body fat i try to stay to the schedule of every 3 hours. sometimes i'll eat an hour earlier, but my body is pretty much trained to eat every 3 hours at this point.

Rock....do you find that if you miss a meal at the scheduled time you get grumpy? I think I might be the world's worst at that right now! It's like, stay clear until I get my food! Othersie total B@tch.

Emma...it really does depend on your goals. Eatting often takes planning and preparing so you don't get caught at times when you are suppose to eat and can't. The frequent eatting helps speed up your body's metabo. and keeps it out of the starvation mode, which then thinks it is in a let's store the food we ate way earlier to live off of. You don't want that.

Originally posted by JLB001
Rock....do you find that if you miss a meal at the scheduled time you get grumpy?

for sure. who doesn't? my lower carb & carbless days are no treat either because of the overall calorie deficit.

okay and what if you are hungry before your scheduled time? Do you eat? Or wait?

I have to force myself to eat every 3 hours. I can eat every 45-hour. Its torture the last 20-30 mins heh. While bulking I was just eating all day long pretty much but now I do 3 hours apart. On no carb days I sometimes have to go every 2 hours because carbs are the only things that fill me so I need more food more frequenty b/c my metabo has gotten so fast.

If you really need to eat and you are that hungry I would say go for it but try and keep all the times consistent. If in the AM you can eat every hour go for it but maintain that same time frame the ENTIRE day. If come say 4pm and you can't stomach another meal soon then you have done wrong. Eat at what ever times you need to but keep the times equal throughout the day if you jump around to much the body may get confused and just go to starvation mode once you wait to long to eat.

Originally posted by Emma Lanni
okay and what if you are hungry before your scheduled time? Do you eat? Or wait?

right now i wait and eat an hour earlier if absolutely necessary. i've discovered good portions that work the best for me at certain times of the day so its not that often that i have to eat earlier.

Originally posted by rockcrest
right now i wait and eat an hour earlier if absolutely necessary. i've discovered good portions that work the best for me at certain times of the day so its not that often that i have to eat earlier.

Very good point, learn the proper portions you will need thoughout the day in order to stay in the fed state so you dont get hungry. But don't over eat either.

When I get hungry at this moment before my next meals, its sf jello, lettuce or veggies, sf gum, sf popsicles. If you keep the proper amount of fats in your diet, it should help in easing the feeling hungry all the time feeling. (well, I have noticed this in my case)

Right now, I eat because I have too, even if I am not hungry for my next scheduled meal. It's at the point where food isn't a guilty pleasure or something to be enjoyed, but something I have to do to keep it running on track.

Originally posted by Emma Lanni
How important is it to eat every 2-3 hours?

Do you all eat lunch and then an hour later if your hungry say to yourself, one more hour to eat?

Or do you just say screw it, Im hungry now, feed me?

How important is it exactly you think.

eating every couple of hours will help to reduce cortisol levels and keep your body in a anabolic state...

the body is more efficient at utilizing nutrients when they are ingested every couple of hours vs eating only several big meals a day...

personally I eat every 1.5 hours. I eat a whole food meal then 1.5 hours later I follow it up with some whey & water...

i live by the clock, telling myself to wait another 20 minutes till i eat, it's even worse when sitting around extremely bored, time ticks so slow

Originally posted by aztecwolf
i live by the clock, telling myself to wait another 20 minutes till i eat, it's even worse when sitting around extremely bored, time ticks so slow

*sighs* Good to know I'm not the only one.