How many times a day do you eat?

I usually go for 4 or 5 meals a day.

Breakfast (fruit before working out)
Post work out (protein shake)
Lunch
Afternoon
Evening

I try to make my lunch the heaviest meal of the day.

I eat about 8-10 times a day. I literally graze on small amounts of food. I usually eat a light snack before supper so I can eat smaller proportions and feel fuller. By only eating twice a day you are forcing your body into starvation mode. It thinks it is literally starving or food is scarce so it holds on to the fat. Eating lots of small meals throughout the day is better for you. I have a hard time maintaining a weight above 130 because I eat this way and am somewhat active. So if your trying to lose weight this is my best suggestion. Also I like to make myself morning smoothies because I am not a breakfast person. If I eat hot breakfast its because I am sitting down to eat a meal with my kids and am encouraging them to eat.

Also I like to make myself morning smoothies because I am not a breakfast person.

This a great suggestion! For my afternoon meal (around 3pm) I sometimes go for a smoothie too.

I used to only eat 3 times a day but the past few months I started eating 6 times a day So 3 medium-sized meals and 3 snacks.

I do breakfast, snack, lunch, then come home and have all my the calories I have left that Im not using on my dinner as snacks to fuel my workout - lots of fruit, and then dinner after workout. So I eat 5 times a day I guess

I eat at least twice a day and sometimes 3X a day.

I eat when I am hungry.

I eat 5-6 meals a day usually spanned out to 2-3 hrs from each other. I don't eat past 6 PM unless it is completely needed.... like I'm super low on cals or I am to hungry to not eat til the AM.

P.s. you should work on eating something for breakfast... maybe start off with a piece of fruit or something small and work your way up to a healthy breakfast.

Why should she do that, out of curiousity?

My first meal is usually around 1:30pm. Sometimes as early as 11am, sometimes as late as 4-5pm. I usually have 2 meals a day, sometimes 3, sometimes just 1, and often have a bowl of cereal or a PB&J with a glass of milk before bed at 10ish pm.

As you can see, this is simply destroying my health and physique.

4 meals a day, 4 hours apart. No more than 4, or you get hangry. Any less than 4, you don't get a chance to burn your fat stores.

Really? You don't get a chance to burn your fat stores if you eat less than 4 meals a day?

I must be some kind of genetic anamoly then.

small breakfast. lunch, and dinner. I don't really snack. On weekends I wake up later and breakfast kind of blends into lunch. If I'm staying home around that time I eat the meal gradually over a couple of hours but during the week I don't have time to do small meals.

I honestly don't believe it matters how big meals are or when you eat them during the day, unless doing some combination of those somehow adversely affects you (such as people getting a stomachache if they eat breakfast too soon after waking up). I typically eat 5-6 times a day, 3 of those being bigger meals typically but not always.

Really, all that matters is what works for YOU!

You could eat one giant meal a day or five small ones. You'll still be consuming the same amount of calories if you're trying to stay under your limit.

It's just whatever works personally! I'm sick of people arguing different things. At the end of the day, everyone has different schedules, different levels of hunger throughout the day, etc. These personal differences are mainly why everyone has something that works differently for them.

Just do what you want to, instead of what other people tell you to do!

I eat 5-7 times a day. I lost 150 pounds doing it and am now in a reboot stage as I have put on a good bit of muscle and dealt with some family loss in my wifes family. Eating not more than 3-4 hours apart is a big deal starting with breakfast. I try to keep each meal in the 200-300 calorie range. Good Luck on your journey!!
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wow, a lot of different answers. so interesting, just goes to show you everybody is different on the food intake.
I think you just have to try different things to see what works best for you.

I have coffee for breakfast, I know, I should fuel my body better.
Lunch time varies 11 to 2. and if I can I eat the carbs then.
dinner is around 7. family. and I make myself something lite.
hopefully by 9 I am not snacking on junk, so I try for popcorn or an apple.

5-6 meals a day - breakfast, morning snack (sometimes skip it), lunch, afternoon snack (sometimes skip it), dinner and supper.

Apparently spreading calories intake over more smaller meals contributes to faster weight loss than just having 2 or 3 big ones. I suppose it depends what the goals are and body's physiology.

And I do believe that breakfast is the most important meal of a day as the body is drained of various nutrients after a night sleep so they need to be restored.