How many meals a day do you eat?
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Usually 2- I am rarely hungry before 4pm, and if I am, a 300 calorie meal is more than enough for me. I LOVE a big dinner. I have tried doing small meals throughout the day, but have found that forcing myself to eat earlier in the day ad doing small meals just leads to me starving all day long, and feeling so disappointed when I get to dinner and have something like 400 calories left. I have no idea why my body reacts that way- I would think that eating in the morning, when I'm not even hungry, would cause me to be fuller throughout the day, but it's the exact opposite.0
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3 sometimes more. breakfast, dinner and snacks/whatever i feel like. sometimes ill snack at random too but not often.0
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2 - 3 meals a day with one snack thrown in there somewhere...0
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3 meals and 2-3 snacks.
breakfast
midmorning snack (maybe)
lunch
late afternoon snack with tea (always)
dinner
late night snack (always)
the meals are generally between 300 and 500 calories.0 -
The only meal I eat is supper with the family. The rest I just eat in small snacks through out the day.0
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I am Intermittent Fasting so I eat 2 meals: Lunch and Dinner.0
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Two.
One if I'm at a customer site all day.0 -
5-60
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As many as I can sneak past my jailers.0
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I eat every 3 hours so it averages 6 or 7 meals/day. They are small meals and each one includes some form of protein. The meals are small or more like snacks. ie small apple and string cheese; a small salad; 3 laughing cow wedges with 15.Ritz crackers; a package of Green Giant broccoli & cheese, etc0
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three or four….
OP - why not just eat larger meals so you are satiated longer?0 -
3 and a snack at night. I could do just find without the snack, but I got in the habit lately, and like it.0
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I eat three meals, and have snacks throughout the day. If you counted the snacks as meals, it would be 7, but I do not count them as official meals since they are so small (comparatively).
Breakfast and lunch are typically between 400 and 500 calories. I have snacks throughout the day, generally 150 calories or less. Usually one between breakfast and lunch one in the afternoon, and I almost always have cheese and crackers when I get home from work (especially on workout days). Then I use the balance of my calories (usually 1,300 - 1,400) for dinner and dessert plus a drink or two.0 -
I aim for 600 calories for breakfast,lunch and dinner with 400 being dedicated to the 'main meal' (apart from breakfast where almost all of it is the 'main meal') and then 200 for snacks here and there; mostly whenever I get a little hungry between meals.0
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I usually eat around 6 meals a day, but after pm snack I am still hungry, so I am going to experiment with 7 meals at 250 cals per meal, does any one else do this? What do you think ? I would really like to hear your suggestions. Last year I was recovering for an ED, but I am back on track
Maybe it isn't about the number of times your eating but WHAT you are eating? I just started eating 5 times a day. I get a hearty breakfast to get me going, lunch, then two snacks between that and dinner, then dinner. My meals vary between 250-300 calories and snacks between 150-200. I am eating a lot of protein, vegetables, and carbs like quinoa, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, fruit. These things are very filling to me so eating the smaller meals every few hours really helps me from being hungry. Now, don't get me wrong, I still crave things but sticking to what I do lets me satisfy my cravings once a week and that is enough for me.
I have nothing against eating whatever you want as long as you stay within your calories, but I find that a string cheese, almonds, and cucumber for a snack are keeping me satisfied until my next meal more than say the same amount of calories in just pretzels, or crackers or something on that order.
You have to find out what works for you, to each their own! There was a lot of good advice in your thread, I hope you can try something that clicks. Good luck!0 -
I have nothing against eating whatever you want as long as you stay within your calories, but I find that a string cheese, almonds, and cucumber for a snack are keeping me satisfied until my next meal more than say the same amount of calories in just pretzels, or crackers or something on that order.
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I eat maybe 4 or 5.0
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i like to eat every 2-3 hours. 5 meals i suppose. breakfast - snack - lunch - snack - dinner. try ending the day with some protein? i used to end the day with a yogurt (90 calories) or a chocolate flavored vitatop. (vitatop is like a muffin top for 100 calories usually found in the frozen good section). at least find something that usually makes you feel full and end your day with that. also i dont divide all my calories evenly..0
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3, sometimes 2 if its a weekend and I sleep in late.0
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17...i eat every 45 minutes :laugh:0
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