1-2 meals a day or multiple?

UltraVegAthlete

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I usually just eat 2 big meals a day, but I’m trying to eat every 2-3 hours now to see if it helps prevent cravings and overeating.
Does anybody have success stories from doing this? Do you feel better doing one or the either?

Well going from your previous posts I would say the cravings and 'overeating' is due to the fact you only eat fruit and vegetables and probably not eating sufficient calories.

And how is this helpful? I like eating my fruit and vegetables, I find that I do eat enough calories (2000-3000 calories a day, actually), and “overeating” is just overeating. As in, I’ve reached 2500 calories for the day but then decide to eat 1000 calories worth of airpopped popcorn. Sound impossible? Haha nope

So are you still training? Running? Cycling? Marathon? Track meets? Ifso, you aren't getting sufficient calories and particularly not getting sufficient protein and good fats.

Just overeating? Yet just yesterday you said on a post you are binge eating.

Some days I overeat, some days I binge eat. They’re different, especially mentally. I overeat on vegetables, sweet potatoes, popcorn... I binge eat on nut butters and processed foods I avoid at all costs.
I guess it’s just a cycle for me of eating just whole plant foods, then having a day where I just want to devour the entire kitchen. I’m hoping having multiple meals or snacks in a day will help me.
I am still training for a marathon and 50 Mile race in July, but the last two weeks I’ve been slacking and have only run around 25-35 miles each week. I’m getting back into it, though. The weather in February makes it hard to be motivated to run 10+ miles at 6 am in the morning.

You've posted multiple threads alluding to this issue and appear to be unphased by the advice that perhaps your restrictive eating habits are leading to binges. From info you gave in another thread, you tend to eat very low fat and protein. You might have better luck resolving the binge cycle by upping both macros on a daily basis. I really don't think meal timing is your problem here.

But you've received this advice many times and appear not to want to consider it.

I do consider it. But I can’t just switch on a flip and be like “yeah, I’m going to eat X-Y-Z today!” Or “I’m totally not going to binge today because I am better than that.” It took me months to eat fat again. It took months for me to add more food to my list of maybe 5-10 things I ate. Months of seeing professionals, struggling to move forward... I may have a week where everything is just peachy, but then I give up. Something or maybe nothing at all happens, and I just give up. In one day, i can be hitting all my macros, im feeling great, and then BAM! I have a binge.
So yes, I’m going through multiple forums and posts, trying to figure out how other people recover. How other people get better or deal with it or ANYTHING! Because I’m sick of waking up everyday and having to make choices on what I’m going to eat, if I should, what I should and shouldn’t eat, how far I’m going to run... all of this on top of life. On top of taking care of my little sister and going to school and working and trying to still be happy. And me. And read books and sing songs and play with my cats and talk to my friends. So excuse me, if it seems like I’m not taking the advice into consideration. It’s just so exhausting. And hard. And i don’t have any faith in myself most days.

I'm sorry you've had such a difficult time. If you have a history of disordered eating and have been under a professional's care for it, I'm not sure we have much more to offer, or that we even should, with this in mind.

I hope your find something that does work for you, in any case. I'm sure it is exhausting.

I guess it’s less about what you can offer me and more about what has worked for you. I’m looking more for inspiration and motivation than advice. It’s easier to want to get better knowing there are others out there who struggle and have overcome it through trial and error. A professional has only ever given me ultimatums, advice, lists to check-off, and names of more specialists to see. It is there job to do that.