If eating every 2-3 hrs...

Acg67

Is supposed to rev up your metabolism, why not eat every hour or every half hr or every 15 min? Wouldn't that turbo charge your metabolism and turn you into a fat burning machine?

runnerjenn0708

that's what I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

supertracylynn

Unless I'm sleeping, in a meeting, or working out, that's what I do! Heck yea! Goodness, even an hour without food is a long time!

mmapags

Awesome! I'm on it!! (he says as he heads for the kitchen)

laurasimmons

Sounds like a plan! lol

drmerc

I drink diet soda all day, since it tricks my body into thinking I just had real sugar
Keepin my metabolism up

rachmaree

Lol

ToughTulip

lol! what made 2-3 hours the magic number anyway? xD

Anna800

This is how I eat when at work:

7:30am breakfast
10am snack
1pm lunch
2:30 snack
3:30 snack
4:30 snack
5:30 snack (optional)
6 or 7pm dinner

I spend on average 400 calories on each breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack total.

kareinlib

hahah yeah I think people just say 2-3 hours because throughout the day people are working, going to classes, etc. and it makes it difficult to eat all the time like that.

Acg67

This is how I eat when at work:

7:30am breakfast
10am snack
1pm lunch
2:30 snack
3:30 snack
4:30 snack
5:30 snack (optional)
6 or 7pm dinner

I spend on average 400 calories on each breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack total.

You must be super lean cause your metabolism is so high from eating so often, nice!

uclown2002

Myth No 1:-

http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debunked.html

geekyjock76

This is how I eat when at work:

7:30am breakfast
10am snack
1pm lunch
2:30 snack
3:30 snack
4:30 snack
5:30 snack (optional)
6 or 7pm dinner

I spend on average 400 calories on each breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack total.

That's pretty much how my day goes. I eat two actual meals and everything else is a dessert that I turn into a protein meal. My 2 o'clock snack was a homemade german chocolate protein cheesecake.

kris_jw95

From what I know (which isn't a lot);

If you ate every fifteen minutes, then the longest time possible between exercise and eating would be fifteen minutes, right? Well that isn't good because your body needs to digest food for energy, and it doesn't digest food (not much) when you are exercising because blood is directed to your muscles not your stomach. So you need to digest food before you exercise, so that's why as a rule of thumb you eat two hours before exercise (unless you're doing something IF to lose weight).

Anna800

You must be super lean cause your metabolism is so high from eating so often, nice!

I've found that my metabolism has reset itself and I can binge on the weekends with no weight gain on Monday. I'm not losing weight right now because of my binging lol, but I don't gain and I should with how badly I've been cheating on the weekends. I lift weights 3x a week as well.

icimani

All I know is that since I've made an effort to eat every 4 hours or so I've been more successful at losing weight, and the daily calories have stayed about the same.

girlykate143

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make it stop! Of course, if we were all as fit as you, we could eat cheescake for a snack.

chubby_checkers

That's pretty much how my day goes. I eat two actual meals and everything else is a dessert that I turn into a protein meal. My 2 o'clock snack was a homemade german chocolate protein cheesecake.

Saying something like this and not posting a recipe is just mean.

SideSteel

I just take a bite every 3 minutes.

banshishi

Does that mean if I put a gallon of petrol in my car 6 times instead of six gallons in one go, my car will go faster too?

Austin1988

I have a power hour every hour of every day. Instead of one shot of booze, I use one bite of food. Works wonders.

Ms_Steel

I just take a bite every 3 minutes.

OH!! is THAT how you got so hawt?

CallMeCupcakeDammit

This is how I eat when at work:

7:30am breakfast
10am snack
1pm lunch
2:30 snack
3:30 snack
4:30 snack
5:30 snack (optional)
6 or 7pm dinner

I spend on average 400 calories on each breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack total.

That's pretty much how my day goes. I eat two actual meals and everything else is a dessert that I turn into a protein meal. My 2 o'clock snack was a homemade german chocolate protein cheesecake.

You need to post that recipe! I kinda eat like that, but since I usually eat so close to bedtime, I can't lose any weight. Maybe there's too much time between my afternoon snack and my dinner! *facepalm*

vytamindi

So that's why those brides who get a constant stream of nutrients through a feeding tube in their nose drop all that weight!

eazieske

WHAT IS IT YOU EAT???? WHEN YOU SNACK EVERY HR???

itgeekwoman

My day:
6 am - Hot water with lemon and fresh ginger
8am - breakfast
10am - snack
12:30pm - lunch
3:30pm - snack
6:30pm - dinner
8:30pm - magnesium and bedtime

I eat raw green beans at any time I'm hungry in between. By dinner time I'm famished!

hollyk57

this is making me hungry

joshpass

everybody different and I used to eat every hour. I now follow the leangains.com approach. Which is fasting and eating all your calories in a time window. I've seen more results switching to this style than when I used to eat every hour. Mind you I still eat the same amount of calories, just during a certain time frame. Sounds crazy but Martin on that website has some GREAT scientific evidence to prove why it works and why it really doesn't matter when you eat and how much you eat at one time as long as you are in control of your calories. Maybe it won't work for everyone (both ways work for me but I've leaned out more with leangains approach) but worth a read. A good book is 'Eat Stop Eat' that also explains this. I follow the primal nutrition approach and that ties into it as well. Our caveman ancestors weren't eating every 2 hours. They would spend the majority of their day looking/hunting for food and ate big meals randomly, while fasting the rest.

that's my 2 cents anyways. to each their own of course!

Acg67

My day:
6 am - Hot water with lemon and fresh ginger
8am - breakfast
10am - snack
12:30pm - lunch
3:30pm - snack
6:30pm - dinner
8:30pm - magnesium and bedtime

I eat raw green beans at any time I'm hungry in between. By dinner time I'm famished!

Awesome! Maybe try eating more snacks to speed up your metabolism and good to see the hot water and lemon first thing in the morning as the lemon will cleanse your system, setting you up for a super fat burning day

cutchro

That's pretty much how my day goes. I eat two actual meals and everything else is a dessert that I turn into a protein meal. My 2 o'clock snack was a homemade german chocolate protein cheesecake.

Saying something like this and not posting a recipe is just mean.

^^^Agree!!

itgeekwoman

Does that mean if I put a gallon of petrol in my car 6 times instead of six gallons in one go, my car will go faster too?

It stays running if you fill it before it gets close to empty so by filling it often, you are never letting your body stop!