HOW MANY TIMES A DAY DO YOU EAT?

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  • sa11yjane
    sa11yjane Posts: 491 Member
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    I eat too many times a day and that is probably why I am overweight!
  • onedayatatime12
    onedayatatime12 Posts: 577 Member
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    Sometimes 4 times, sometimes 6 times (small snacks-meals)
  • trisH_7183
    trisH_7183 Posts: 1,486 Member
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    Breakfast-8am

    Lunch-12noon

    Dinner-5-5:30 pm

    Snack -7/8 pm

    Whatever works for you,stay with it. Used to be so hungry by 11am......because I didn't eat breakfast. It's a learning experience.
    Good luck & keep in touch.
  • TattedInStilettos
    TattedInStilettos Posts: 331 Member
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    Three times a day... 3 meals nomore than 300 calories and 3 snacks nomore than 100 calories. ..
  • SDkitty
    SDkitty Posts: 446 Member
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    When I am hungry. Always. Works for me.

    ^^ This

    Same here. Your body knows when you need to eat. I pay attention to what I'm craving and try to feed what my body needs, whether it be salt, sugar, water, there's always a fairly healthy option :flowerforyou:
  • Showcase_Brodown
    Showcase_Brodown Posts: 919 Member
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    I tend to eat 5 or 6 times each day. (Small balanced ones).

    Keeps the metabolism racing.

    Eating more meals in a day does not speed up your metabolism... sorry, I couldn't let that slip through.

    I usually eat twice, sometimes a small snack before a workout. I do a 2pm-10pm eating window.
  • janepatricia2
    janepatricia2 Posts: 40 Member
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    i eat 3 times a day, My breakfast being my mail meal, so i am generally not hungry until lunch , I have stopped eating between meals, and do not eat after 8pm, hopefully i will get somewhere with losing weight. .:bigsmile:
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,320 Member
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    Breakfast 300 cals around 8am
    Lunch 400 cals around 12.30
    Snack 200 cals around 4pm
    Dinner 400 cals with glass of alcohol 100 cals around 6.30
    Dessert 200 cals around 8.30
    Add to that 100 cals for semi skimmed milk for tea, coffee.

    I like to keep the 200 in hand for my dessert at 8.30 as otherwise I would be starving at bed time, which is 11.30.

    That makes 1700 in all which I nearly always stick to. My base line is 1240 and I exercise 450.

    I am nearing goal and weight loss is down to 1lb per fortnight, but that is OK by me as it's not a race!
    I enjoy my food and am a good cook which makes life easier!
  • footiechick82
    footiechick82 Posts: 1,203 Member
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    whenever I'm hungry... a lot!
  • mkanak
    mkanak Posts: 38 Member
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    6-7
  • kaddydaddy
    kaddydaddy Posts: 60 Member
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    One big *kitten* dinner.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,066 Member
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    2 X.

    Once about two hours after waking.

    Again six hours later.
  • __Di__
    __Di__ Posts: 1,630 Member
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    Historically, I have been a horrible eater. Could go all day without eating (my metabolism was DEAD), and then other days I would eat all day. I was never a breakfast eater (except on weekends), and sometime would skip dinner out of sheer laziness in not wanting to prepare it.

    Now, I have not become perfect by any means whatsoever...a LONG, LONG way from it. BUT, with the help of the MFP tracking system and my MFP supportive "friends," I have been looking forward to logging each accomplishment.

    I started this journey on 4/12/13.

    I have been eating breakfast every day. Now that I have become more active and my metabolism is responding, I find myself actually getting HUNGRY! So to keep from binging on crap (hubby's FAVORITE pasttime that I used to willingly participate in), I am eating 6 times per day. My day looks like this:

    7:30 a.m. Breakfast

    9:30 a.m. Snack

    11:30 a.m. Lunch

    2:00 p.m. Snack

    5:00 p.m. Dinner (still lazy, but try to eat a WW or Lean Cuise meal)

    7:00 p.m. Snack (optional -- I usually pass this one up)

    I drink 1.5 gallons of water per day. My weight requires at least 105 ounces per day.

    WHAT DO YOU FIND WORKS FOR YOU??? 3 meals a day? 6 meals a day? More? Less? I am interested in learning how people are divying up their menus.

    Dee :)

    In my food diary here on MFP, I have columns for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. The "snacks" is for stuff like my daily milk allowance for tea and coffee and any fruit I may have had extra. I do not stick rigidly to times of the day due to me working various shifts.
  • JulieAnn72
    JulieAnn72 Posts: 795 Member
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    Looking at my diaries, I think I tend to eat 5 times a day: breakfast (8am - 9am), lunch (11:30-12:30), snack (whenever I'm hungry in the afternoon), dinner (5:30-6:30), snack (8-10pm).
  • taylorckt1
    taylorckt1 Posts: 263 Member
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    I do 5 meals per day....I don't plan snacks but if I chose to have one or two, I log them under a snack tab I created and eat them when and if I want...I am generally never hungry if I am eating my meals approximately 3 hours apart. I attempt to get in 8 to 10 glasses of water per day as well.
  • momzeeee
    momzeeee Posts: 475 Member
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    Usually twice a day-11am and 6pm.

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