Poll: How many meals a day do you eat?

CoryIda

Three meals a day with two snacks nestled in the midst:

Early - Meal
Mid morning - snack
Noon - Meal
Mid afternoon - Snack
Evening - Meal
And occasionally when I need it a late evening/pre-bedtime snack.

Total: 2,550 calories / day.

This, except subtract 50 calories for me.

Mercenary1914

I'm an insomniac--so it's weird...

12am-4am : 200-300 calories

4am-10am: coffee creamer ~ 50 calories

10am-12pm: 500-700 calories (this includes meal/snack)

12-4pm: 500-600 calories (meal/snack)

4-9pm: 600-700 calories (meal/snack)

So 6-8 "meals/snacks" a day. and a grand TOTAL of 2200-2500 calories USUALLY.

That's how I eat...except I am running close to 3000 calories.

I start eating around 7 AM and stop eating an hour before bed.

krisloock

Minimum of 6 meals per day: - sometimes as many as 7-8. Largest meals are breakfast and pre- and post-workout meals...the rest are spread out about every 2-3 hours. I even eat right before I go to bed.

I do Figure Competitions/bodybuilding so this is what works. Lugging food around with me can be inconvenient at times but it is WAY better than being caught out without healthy food options!

andreacord

I eat between 4-6 small meals. I lived in residence on campus at college this year so it was pretty much eat when you can between classes so I've become a grazer.

athensguy

I pretty much eat continuously from the time I get up around 4:15 (or after my run, if I don't eat before it) until I go to bed. There will usually be calorie bumps near where breakfast, lunch, and supper times are.

saragato

Depends on if you call yogurt or a granola bar by itself a meal. I only eat a small amount in the morning because I have medication that requires it to be taken with food. Besides that I have dinner which is usually a protein, a vegetable, and some sort of carb. On my off days when I don't go to the gym or anything I might have some soup in the afternoon. Basically I try to eat the most as far as calories and servings at dinner because I tend to sleep poorly and I don't want midnight snacking going on.

rbn_held

8:30-9:00 am - Breakfast
10:30 am - snack
12:30-1:00 pm - Lunch
2:30 - snack
6:00-6:30 dinner
7:30 - snack - If I am in the mood for one - alot of times I just make myself a cup of tea or coffee

Not always the same time everyday but I try to keep close to it

Kwika

I usually try and have five to six small meals a day. On an off exercise day, I try to keep them to under 500 calories and on a run day, that number goes up a bit. For the entire day though, I try to keep it between 1400 and 1800 calories.

myak623

Depends on when I get hungry. Usually around 4-5 times. No real reason behind that many. I just bring several items of food to work with me.

sarah44254

I don't eat meals at all. I feel hungry, I will pick up a piece of food. I mentally (or on a scrap of paper) track the calories and say it is 2pm.. I will try to eat 1000 or less by 2pm. That leaves me around 1000 to eat from 2 until bedtime.

That is how I go about my day.

devilwhiterose

4.

Breakfast
Early Lunch
Late Lunch
Dinner

Small snacks in between all that.

rmartin72

Three Meals a day. I feel I need to eat 5 very small meals per day not sure though.

mrsdizzyd84

Three meals a day with two snacks nestled in the midst:

Early - Meal
Mid morning - snack
Noon - Meal
Mid afternoon - Snack
Evening - Meal
And occasionally when I need it a late evening/pre-bedtime snack.

Total: 2,550 calories / day.

This for 1800-2000+ calories a day. If I could cut the number of meals/snacks down I would, but my stomach can only hold so much. Honestly, I feel like I don't even have a chance to get hungry anymore. LOL.

Troll

i eat 2 big meals at about 500 cal, and 4-5 small ones

MariFitBody

7 -8 meals depending how hungry I am. I snack a lot and Im always hungry.
Pre breakfast 4am -5am

Breakfast 8am

Snack 9am

Lunch 11am

Snacks (2) 1pm - 3pm

Dinner 6pm

Post w/o 9pm

About 2200 cals a day

MehiraDeOro

It depends on the day for me,I eat breakfast, then at one of my jobs I'm allowed to eat while working so I usually eat when I first get there, then another meal about halfway through my shift, and another when I get home.

So usually 3-4 meals a day and various snacks, very rarely I'll only eat 2.

iuew

3, with a snack / dessert after dinner.

Spanaval

Really depends. Sometimes, 3, sometimes less. There are days when I tend to just snack.

Nelski

I eat 4-6 times a day. A few days a week I usually do intermittant fasting, so basically just skiping breakfast so I will eat around noon then most likely a snack around 3 or 4 before I workout, then a protein shake after I work out if I do strength training, then dinner around 6 or so then usually a snack 8 or so.
Days I don't IF just add breakfast to that around 6am.
It's hard to say how many calories are alotted for each time because it changes, you could look at my diary to get an idea. Just depends what I'm eating and how hungry I am at the moment. On average I eat 1600-1900 a day with higher days on the weekend.

81Katz

Meals 3 but never huge meals, also 2-3 snacks if needed.) It starts like this, I have breakfast, a mid-morning snack, later lunch, then dinner, sometimes a small snack a bit after dinner. If I don't have the mid-morning snack then my lunch is sometimes earlier then I might have a snack late afternoon a bit before dinner, then no snack after dinner.

*Basically, on average at least 5 times a day I eat.