how many meals a day to YOU eat?

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  • AprilChampion
    AprilChampion Posts: 184 Member
    Hard not to notice .. It seems to me that those who are eating the most often, are also losing the most weight. Duly noted!!

    thats what i noticed as well



    ***note to everyone that responded*** - thanks for all the responses! its been fascinating seeing just how many people eat differently. :) ( sorry i havent responded before now, ive been busy doing house wife "STUFF")
  • jclguru
    jclguru Posts: 123
    I only eat twice a day...1pm and midnite (I work midnites). I've never fallen for that eat more
    than 3 times a day to keep your metabolism up. I've always maintained that if you keep the
    same schedule, your body knows when to burn and not to burn. I've been doing this since
    last May and I've had no problems whatsoever in losing.

    Doug
  • kwardklinck
    kwardklinck Posts: 1,601
    I log 3 meals a day at between 350 and 500 each, but usually save part of my meal for a snack in the morning and one in the evening. In the beginning, I ate every 2 hours but it seemed I was always hungry and never quite satisfied. Eating more at meals worked for me and now I'm never hungry.
  • AprilChampion
    AprilChampion Posts: 184 Member
    I log 3 meals a day at between 350 and 500 each, but usually save part of my meal for a snack in the morning and one in the evening. In the beginning, I ate every 2 hours but it seemed I was always hungry and never quite satisfied. Eating more at meals worked for me and now I'm never hungry.

    Really? i find if i eat every two to three hours im always satisfied, sometimes still satisfied ( because i never have that OVERLY FULL feeling) after the last meal, especially if i eat something that has a lot of fiber in it.
  • klybarger
    klybarger Posts: 214
    Well, yesterday was one meal - I ate all day long TOM! But usually 3 meals with 2-3 snacks.
  • sonjavon
    sonjavon Posts: 1,019 Member
    5-8 times a day depending on what time I get up in the morning. I've been getting up at 5 this week... so my schedule has been as follows:
    6AM - Snack (Fruit and cheese)
    8AM - Breakfast (Eggs, rice cake, veggie)
    10AM - Snack (Fruit and nuts)
    12PM - Lunch (depends... )
    2PM - Snack (veggies)
    4 or 5PM - Snack (apple and raw veggies)
    6 or 7PM - dinner
    8PM - dessert or popcorn (depending on calories left and hunger - I REFUSE to not have something when DH and DS hit the ice cream! LOL)


    Without the snacks - I don't get my veggies and fruits in and if I don't get those in I don't feel "right".
  • ShottaB
    ShottaB Posts: 29
    Hard not to notice .. It seems to me that those who are eating the most often, are also losing the most weight. Duly noted!!
    That is soooo true. There's my answer, I'll start doing 5 meals a day. Thanks for all your posts.
  • chandnikhondji
    chandnikhondji Posts: 136 Member
    I eat when i am hungry, i cannot fix that into a time schedule or an exact number of meals. Also i don't say beforehand "this and that meal is allowed to have that and this amount of calories." That comes when i am cooking. And i will just watch spontaneously the meals afterwards so they don't go over the limit. Very flexible.
  • kcdrake
    kcdrake Posts: 512
    On days I get up early for school or work I usually eat 4 meals. Breakfast (300 cal), Lunch (400 cal), Snack (200 cal), and Dinner (500 cal). I'm not one of these people that can have a bunch of tiny meals throughout the day - I feel like I am constantly hungry. I don't do a morning snack because I usually eat lunch pretty early, but I do need something to get me through the afternoon hump.
    However, on days I can sleep in I tend to skip a snack simply because I'm not hungry (since I'm eating later).
    If I work out I try to get some kind of protein in me shortly after I finish, but this isn't always possible. It usually isn't even half what I burned off.
  • kcdrake
    kcdrake Posts: 512
    I log 3 meals a day at between 350 and 500 each, but usually save part of my meal for a snack in the morning and one in the evening. In the beginning, I ate every 2 hours but it seemed I was always hungry and never quite satisfied. Eating more at meals worked for me and now I'm never hungry.

    Really? i find if i eat every two to three hours im always satisfied, sometimes still satisfied ( because i never have that OVERLY FULL feeling) after the last meal, especially if i eat something that has a lot of fiber in it.

    I'm the same way. If I eat that close together I never feel full and am never satisfied. When I eat the larger meals (still healthy. ...except today, haha) I feel like I stay fuller for longer and am not always thinking about the next time I get to eat. And no, I never feel stuffed or overly full when eating my meals.
  • sparkles321
    sparkles321 Posts: 107
    I eat 6 times a day: 3 meals and 3 snacks. The meal size keeps getting smaller and the snack size keeps getting bigger. :laugh: So I guess it's starting to balance out. I don't actually count calories (though I do track my food to keep an eye on sodium and other aspects). I have been focusing on eating more whole foods and keeping the foods as whole as possible for my meals -- meaning that I don't process them too much either. But, basically, I eat about 1 1/2 -2 cups worth of food at a time. For snacks it could be a fruit medly or small salad. For meals, it could be a piece of chicken with steamed veggies. Unless it's a dessert, which is a smaller portion.
  • hlanders
    hlanders Posts: 50
    I have also found going from 3 meals to 5 or 6 smaller ones....allowed me to drop 5 lbs...in 2 weeks....after dieting so long...could hardly believe the food switch up worked....! Happy, Happy!!!
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
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  • stacykc437
    stacykc437 Posts: 10
    I eat 5-6 times a day (low calorie foods) which keeps me from crashing and provides steady energy throughout the day. My routine is to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner with at least two to three low calorie, healthy snacks between meals.
  • MysterriGal
    MysterriGal Posts: 52 Member
    I eat 6-8 times a day. 3 bigger meals, the rest low calorie snacks. Since I've been doing this I do find I'm actually hungry, which is a good change because before I think I was just craving. Its almost as if I felt my metabolism change after a while. And my energy level has evened out, where as before I would have big highs and lows.
  • NicoleAJordan
    NicoleAJordan Posts: 12 Member
    5 times a day. Breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner. You have to eat every 4 hours to keep your metabolism up. I hear your body starts to kick into "fat storing" mode if you go longer than that :).
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