Who eats smaller meals several times a day?

I eat small meals/snacks...mostly it just helps to keep from getting starving and losing control all together. It's almost like a lot of days I eat a regular size meal in parts, over the course of 2 or three hours. For instance breakfast is listed on my diary as a meal but I will have an apple and coffee around 7:30am and then go about my day, workout etc and then have the oatmeal around 10am. A few hours later I will have part of lunch like a shake or sandwich, then in couple hours I'll eat the yogurt or fruit. Same with dinner, as I may have a side salad an hour or so before the rest of my meal, usually while I'm cooking whatever else we are having. It takes planning and packing up what you are going to eat that day so it can be done while on a break at work etc. I don't do it for the metabolism benefits if there are any...It seems to help me stay on track. I don't get too hungry but I also never really feel full, just comfortable.

I eat 5 small meals a day. Mainly to keep myself from binging and keep my hunger satisfied. A day is something like this:

Breakfast
While wheat bread
1 tbl spoon natural peanut butter
1 banana

Snack 1
Greek original yogurt
1 cup of blueberries

Lunch
3 oz chicken breast , 1/2 cup brown rice
Salad with yogurt ranch dressing

Snack 2
Carrots, celery, 2 tablespoon hummus
Almonds
Pre work out Shake

Dinner
Salmon
Asparagus
Veggies

I also eat 5 meals a day, similar to what LaurenDaniell described.

3 Main meals (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner), 2 small meals (one after Breakfast, one after Lunch).
I try to eat breakfast within 2 hours after getting out of bet and max. 6 hours between the big meals.

The small meals are often fruit or yogurt (and here and then, a cupcake or something similar, especially if I go out to a cafe or something). The main meals always contain carbs (bread, oatmeal, rice, noodles or rice, mostly) veggies and maybe fish or meat (some veggies with meat would not be enough for me)

But as many already said, what mostly matters is your calorie intake at the end of the day. Whether you eat 5 meals or 2. It has more to do with your lifestyle and if you are a person who needs to eat often, or if you prefer quite big meals where you put everything together. :flowerforyou:

I also eat 5 meals a day, similar to what LaurenDaniell described.

3 Main meals (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner), 2 small meals (one after Breakfast, one after Lunch).
I try to eat breakfast within 2 hours after getting out of bet and max. 6 hours between the big meals.

The small meals are often fruit or yogurt (and here and then, a cupcake or something similar, especially if I go out to a cafe or something). The main meals always contain carbs (bread, oatmeal, rice, noodles or rice, mostly) veggies and maybe fish or meat (some veggies with meat would not be enough for me)

But as many already said, what mostly matters is your calorie intake at the end of the day. Whether you eat 5 meals or 2. It has more to do with your lifestyle and if you are a person who needs to eat often, or if you prefer quite big meals where you put everything together. :flowerforyou:

I do this too, and it works perfectly.

I graze instead of eating three large meals. Started eating this way years ago when I wanted as an experiment to get off drugs to control my reflux (it's worked for me). I do feel better and have more energy when I eat a little every two to three hours. What do these meals look like? Well that depends on you. You can take a full meal and split into two smaller meals or take different components of large meals and eat them at separate times.
Large meals trigger my reflux and zap my energy so grazing works for me, but it may not work for you. I recommend experimenting to see what works for you.
Good luck

I agree with several others - all that matters is your deficit. Doesn't really matter if you eat several small meals or eat all of your calories in one huge meal. Just burn more than you eat.

I eat 3 meals and 3 snacks. I find that if I don't allow myself to get really hungry, I am less likely to binge or make poor calories choices.

Breakfast = 300 ish calories
AM snack - 100 ish calories
Lunch = 400 ish calories
PM snack = 100 ish calories
Dinner = 600 ish calories
Evening snack = 100 ish calories

Of course today being Paczki Day, breakfast is higher and dinner will be lower.

Depends how I feel. If I am not too hungry I'll have small snacks/meals throughout the day. If I'm hungry I'll try to have a filling meal and maybe one snack a little later.