Eat before feeling hungry or waiting till your hungry...?

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  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
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    six meals a day is the way to go..

    breakfast
    snack
    lunch
    snack
    dinner
    snack

    don't forget your post work out protein shake...!
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
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    if you wait until you are hungry it is too late and your body has already gone into starvation mode and is slowing down your metabolism....
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
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    if you wait until you are hungry it is too late and your body has already gone into starvation mode and is slowing down your metabolism....
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    No. It takes at least 4 days of complete fasting, or several months of eating very low calorie, in order to enter the "famine response." Waiting until you feel hungry has no effect. In fact, a 24 hour fast will actually increase your metabolism. Seriously, if we had to eat 6 meals a day, every few hours, the human race would've died out several million years ago.
  • mamagooskie
    mamagooskie Posts: 2,964 Member
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    I like to eat regularily............usually 3 main meals and snacks in between. That said sometimes I'm really hungry when I eat and sometimes not so much, every day is different.
  • schustc
    schustc Posts: 428 Member
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    six meals a day is the way to go..

    breakfast
    snack
    lunch
    snack
    dinner
    snack

    don't forget your post work out protein shake...!

    This is me 90% of the time... :)
  • nessa1879
    nessa1879 Posts: 8
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    No. It takes at least 4 days of complete fasting, or several months of eating very low calorie, in order to enter the "famine response." Waiting until you feel hungry has no effect. In fact, a 24 hour fast will actually increase your metabolism. Seriously, if we had to eat 6 meals a day, every few hours, the human race would've died out several million years ago.

    Agreed.

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