3 meals or snacking throughout day?

I strongly believe that its far more beneficial to have 6 smaller meals throughout the day rather than 3 larger meals. This helps to increase your metabolisim and stabolises your blood sugar levels throughout the day. I also believe that it keeps you much fuller and prevents the need to overindulge or snack on unhealthy food. While not yet fully qualified, I am studying Nutritional Science and Personal Training, this coupled with my personal experience leads me to believe this. Feel free to ask me anything else!

Whatever works for you and helps you meet your goal is best. I snack constantly, and I know that about myself so I allot calories accordingly. Others prefer to eat less often and that's fine too.

Snacking helps me not feel hungry. I usually have 1 regular (around 500 calories) meal a day.

whatever helps keep you feeling full.

Whatever floats your boat.

I get higher satiation from bigger meals that leave me full, so that works better for me.

Depends on the day.

Small meals works for me. I have a small child who eats snacks throughout the day, so it works for her, too.

We wake up, have breakfast 1, something small like yogurt or fruit and a piece of toast. Breakfast 2 is more substatial, usually eggs, quinoa, spinach and cheese scramble, or something similar. Lunch is typically previous nights dinner. Afternoon snack of fruits, cheese, nut spreads, vegetables, etc. Dinner, some protein, carbs and veg. Evening snack of fruit, yogurt, dark chocolate, this is like dessert for me. It sounds like tons of food, but it's really not because we eat so regularly that we aren't starving when we eat, which allows me to eat "normal" amounts.

This works for us because I don't do well if my blood sugar dips, I get moody and will binge eat, so small meals on a regular basis keep me happy. :laugh:

I strongly believe that its far more beneficial to have 6 smaller meals throughout the day rather than 3 larger meals. This helps to increase your metabolisim and stabolises your blood sugar levels throughout the day. I also believe that it keeps you much fuller and prevents the need to overindulge or snack on unhealthy food. While not yet fully qualified, I am studying Nutritional Science and Personal Training, this coupled with my personal experience leads me to believe this. Feel free to ask me anything else!

False. You have it backwards.


"Dietary restriction has been shown to have several health benefits including increased insulin sensitivity, stress resistance, reduced morbidity, and increased life span. The mechanism remains unknown, but the need for a long-term reduction in caloric intake to achieve these benefits has been assumed. We report that when C57BL/6 mice are maintained on an intermittent fasting (alternate-day fasting) dietary-restriction regimen their overall food intake is not decreased and their body weight is maintained. Nevertheless, intermittent fasting resulted in beneficial effects that met or exceeded those of caloric restriction including reduced serum glucose and insulin levels and increased resistance of neurons in the brain to excitotoxic stress. Intermittent fasting therefore has beneficial effects on glucose regulation and neuronal resistance to injury in these mice that are independent of caloric intake."

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc156352/

I do both. I have a mean green, hard boiled egg, coffee for breakfast at 7:30. At 10:30 I have some almonds. 1:00 I have my lunch 3:30 I have a snack, and at 6:00 I have a light/healthy dinner. You can do both.

I do a little of both depending on how I feel

I have 3 meals and typically 2 snacks. It doesn't really matter one way or the other. If you find snacking all day puts you over your calories, don't do it. If you find you are starving before your next meal and, therefore, tend to over eat at meals times, then fit in some snacks. So long as the calorie count is the same, do it which ever way works for you.