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Eating 6 small meals every 2-3 hours? A BB Myth?
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When my metabolism was good (pre-thyroid problems) I use to be the same way. I'd be so hungry in between meals that I started feeling sick to my stomach from the hunger pangs. Of course, I don't have that problem too often anymore, occasionally but not too often.
As long as I was eating enough, I found eating more frequently easier to control. If I ate 3 larger meals I found I was ravinous by the time a meal came around, and would have a harder time not cheating
Yeah I can see 6 smaller meals not satiating you but that's going to be mostly because your stomach has expanded to accept the larger portions (my opinion the biggest health problem in the world today). If you stick with eating the smaller meals your stomach will shrink back down. Unless of course you've been stuffing yourself so massively you need gastric bypass but that's an extreme.
Anyone who has lowered there portions and stuck with it for a long period of time will tell you, it's much harder for them to eat large meals now. Like myself when I need another thousand calories 'cause I'm doing massive amounts of cardio that day I add a meal or two and only increase portions on my other meals a small amount. Let's also not forget - your body isn't always able to digest the entirety of a large meal a lot of times unless you eat REAL slow which is often difficult to do with a huge plate of food in front of you, so a good deal of it is stored as fat or passed as waste.
Anyone who has lowered there portions and stuck with it for a long period of time will tell you, it's much harder for them to eat large meals now. Like myself when I need another thousand calories 'cause I'm doing massive amounts of cardio that day I add a meal or two and only increase portions on my other meals a small amount. Let's also not forget - your body isn't always able to digest the entirety of a large meal a lot of times unless you eat REAL slow which is often difficult to do with a huge plate of food in front of you, so a good deal of it is stored as fat or passed as waste.
It takes my stomacher a while to adapt but when it does I don't bloat or get the gas that goes with eating 3 large meals.
Another benefit to eating 6 small meals is the variety.
Right, that goes back to my whole dividing macros thing. Let's say I want the Omega 3 benefit of Salmon, the lean low fat benefit of chicken, the antioxidant benefit of fruit, the endless benefits of vegitibles, the great taste of well put together salad... 6 meals makes this possible in one day. Which is a huge craving buster.
No it's not really that at all.
It's the fact that most women eat an average of 1200-1400 calories a day. Try splitting that into 5-6 meals and see how small they are.........
Bullshit they won't. I'm ALWAYS hungry. If I eat a huge meal I don't wanna even look at food for another 5 hours. When I eat 6-7 smaller meals a day I'm hungry every 2 hours.
Like you said, when I eat big meals I bloat and don't feel like eating for a long while. When I eat smaller meals I don't, and feel like I could just keep eating. That being said though, I've seen far better results with the many small meals opposed to 3-4 larger meals.
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doesnt ur body go catabolicafter like 3.5 hours without protein?
Yep if you don't eat every 3.5 hours your body just starts to eat muscle, instantly.
excellent post. i would like to add that there's a method behind reduced meal frequency that had me looking into a type of diet called intermittent fasting. the name IF can be misleading, though, as people automatically think, 'i'm going into starvation mode and losing 10lbs of muscle each night!' basically, you take the calories/macros you fit in 5-6 meals over 12-14 hours and eat them within a window, say, 8 hours. i tried this 16/8 split for 3 weeks for cutting and here is what i found. i was more satisfied with 600 cal meals rather than 400 cal meals. i was able to adhere to the foods/calories i was consuming for the day and cravings for 'junk food' was easily ignored as i felt fuller. workouts were getting better as i felt mentally sound and not hungry as i was when eating 6 smaller meals. i felt good. oh and my LBM did not change more than 1-2 pounds either way doing IF compared to the 6 meals a day, if that. however, i was hitting my calories/macros, lifting weights, and getting 8-9 hours of sleep. both methods 'work' for me in regards to cutting/dropping BF and maintaining LBM. IF was just easier to adhere to in regards to hitting my cals/macros. bulking, however, i have no idea what the results would be as i have not tried it yet.
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Yep if you don't eat every 3.5 hours your body just starts to eat muscle, instantly.
Well honestly though if a woman is only eating 1200 calories a day she's probably going to be really hungry no matter what... and actually she might be able to keep sane easier if every couple hours she got to eat something.
Plus it doesn't apply to me as I'm on a cut at 3,100 cals right now
On a side note, it's frutstrating to me when people spell Plateau wrong.
the way I heard it explained to be is the metabolism is like a grill/furnace/etc. If you put in too little the fire dies down and you burn very little. If you do to much at once you choke the fire and you get very little burn. You need proper fuel (cals) and proper flow (oxygen cap, water, exercise) to stoke the flame properly.
Thats the one I notice most, when I eat a huge meal like a cheat. I just want to nap and do nothing.
J/K .......come on somebody is bound to believe you and walk around with a timer that goes off at 3hr 29min now.
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i really just use the 3 hour time frame as a guideline. I pretty much eat when ever my body says its hungry which is conveniantly about 3-3 1/2 hours after i eat a meal. I guess that means my metabolism is pretty regular.
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The only reason I eat 6-7 times a day is to be able to eat the number of calories my body requires. If I had to eat only 3 meals it would make those meals seem like mountains of food.
You sure about this? P's post above is kinda saying the opposite to this isnt it?
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from what i understand it doesnt really matter how many meals you eat a day as long as your hit your "calorie goal." Im taking a couple of nutrition classes and my professor said the bodys metabolism is on a 24hr timeline, if u want to call it that. as long as you get the calories in your body from when you wake up to when you go to sleep(considering you have a proper sleeping schedule) then it doesnt really matter how many meals you eat. She didnt really go into if your metabolism is more consistant or faster if you eat 6 meals spaced out 3 hours apart as opposed to 3 meals but from the information i received it doesnt sound like it would effect your results much, if any.
Wow, and I thought it was just after 2.5 hours. Who cares anyway? Most people do care about it during the day - I just wonder why none of them gets up twice during the night to eat.
Anyway, I never believed that eating 6 meals per day can boost your metabolism because it isn???t logical. More active tissue means faster metabolism, and eating 6 times a day won???t add any muscle to your body, I suppose. However, I do eat 6 times a day because it???s easier to eat 400 calories in one sitting than it is to eat 800 or so.
This is what i've been hearing too, so im gonna run with it
I think he was just joking man haha.
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Im a waiter/bartender and i often have to work 14 hour shifts with a few small breaks whenever the resteraunt slows down so what i do is this....
Buy enough food for about a week on sunday.
grocery list:
chicken
steak
broccoli
brown rice
avacado
etc...
I cook about 3 days worth of chicken,steak,rice and anything that needs to be cooked and put my portions into plastic baggies. i also baggie everything that is not cooked like the avocado, fruits and what not and store everything in the fridge. i also bought a cooler from walmart that has both a compartment for items that need to be kept chilled and another compartment for other food items.its by a company called california inovations. go to walmart they will have it. if i know im gonna be gone for 6 hours i throw in enough food to make 2 or 3 meals. if im gone for 9 then 3 or 4 meals and so on and so on. just keep it in your car or wherever you go and you dont have to worry about not eating. Its great!
that's it 3 meals a day for me. thank you P-funk.
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Agreed 3-4. I'd much rather have 3 square big meals than worry about the logistics of getting 6 meals per day. Especially as it does nothing for metabolism as stated earlier....
