eating every 2 hours is it necessary

poonamsonii wrote: »

Mr_Knight wrote: »

poonamsonii wrote: »

Is it necessary to eat every 2 or 3 hours..to loose fat...anybody here who lost fat witjout eating every 2 or 3 hours...

No, it's not necessary. How could it be when people who have literally nothing to eat end up looking so skinny?

Ya but then they say u store fats...

Some people eat once a day and lose weight.
As long as you eat less food than you used to eat, you will lose weight.

Your body stores fat when you eat over your calorie limit.
It does not care when you eat because is working for you twenty-four/seven.

eat as many times as you want providing you have a deficit. when i am dieting i eat every 2/3 hours simply because i can't stand feeling hungry. when bulking i eat every 4/5 hours

I eat only from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (sometimes 11:00
AM to 7:00 PM) I fast 16 hours a day. I try to eat 1100 to 1200 calories a day. I am seldom hungry doing this as I limit my carbs by avoiding sugar and starches. This has been working for me and I feel less bloated and thinner. I drink 8 glasses or more of water daily.

Split up your calories for the day in a way that works for you. If you want to eat 6 meals a day, then figure out what your calories would be for each meal and go for it. If you only want to eat 2 meals a day, then figure out what your calories would be for each meal and do that. And so on. As long as your end of day calorie count matches what your goal is, you're fine.

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No, eating every 2-3 hours isn't necessary to lose fat. Some people eat frequent small meals in order to feel satiated, but that is a matter of personal prefrence, not a necessity. On some days, I eat a few larger meals many hours apart. On other days I eat small meals or snacks every 3 or 4 hours. It all depends on how hungry I am. If you eat at a deficit you will lose weight, including fat. In my experience, it doesn't really matter how many meals you consume or what time of day or how many hours apart you consume them, it all comes down to CICO.

nope lol i fast all day and only eat in the evenings,and some how i
magically lose weight
must be that calorie deficit thing everyone keeps talking about

Not necessary.
If you like snacking frequently, make it fit your calorie goal.

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angiejones67 wrote:

I have always heard it's good to eat every two hours because it keeps your metabolism going.

Stop & think about this a second...
Do you die overnight, because you don't eat every 2 hours? No?
Then your metabolism keeps going. If it didn't, you'd be dead.

Mr_Knight wrote:

How could it be when people who have literally nothing to eat end up looking so skinny?

poonamsonii wrote:

Ya but then they say u store fats...

:sigh:
LOOK at what he wrote. When people have nothing to eat, they're skinny.
If the body held onto calories when it wasn't getting enough food, famine wouldn't be a problem.
Neither would anorexia.
It sounds like you're parroting part of the "starvation mode" myth.
Go read that essay, at that link.

When you have a calorie deficit (you're taking in less than your body needs to run) you will
lose weight because your body has to pull the energy calories from somewhere.
It prefers glucose (blood sugar),
then it takes glycogen (stored form of carbs),
then fat,
and as a last resort, muscle.

Yes, you burn all of these all the time, in some quantity, but that's mostly the order they're pulled.
"Starvation mode" is when you are out of everything else & start burning muscle.
It's a hail Mary, hoping that you'll find food before your heart or diaphragm gives out & you die.
It's also a waste of calories to convert muscle to energy, it 'costs' a lot more than glucose or fat
or glycogen.

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poonamsonii wrote:

i do only dairy rich teas and coffess whole day and eat only at night...
then too i m noy loosing any weiggt..i alsso do weight trainjng

Autocorrect is really doing a number on your typing...

If you're not losing weight, you're eating more than you're burning.
Doesn't matter when you eat it or how often or where the calories come from (junk food or healthy).
Maybe if you ate nutritious, filling real food (heavy on the fruits, veggies, and lean protein) at
your regular mealtimes, you would feel less hungry & take in fewer calories & lose weight.
How much dairy are you putting in your tea & coffee? Do you measure it & log it? How about sugar?

You're probably not going to build muscle while losing weight. The most you can hope for is to
maintain what you currently have. To preserve what muscle you have, get a higher % of your calories
from protein (the upper healthy limit is 35%) & do progressively more challenging weightlifting.

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If I ate every 2-3 hours I'd probably still be almost 400 pounds, as well as blood sugar through the roof. I lost 100 pounds on a low carb diet, just eating standard 3 meals a day, with an occasional snack. But then I stalled (with still quite a bit more to lose!). I mean a *five year* stall.

But I figured at 100 pounds down I was still ahead of the game. But then, with no change in diet, the scale began inching up again to the tune of 25 pounds this past year.

So this time around I'm still in the lower carb camp, but combined with intermittent fasting, only eating in a 2-5 hour window daily. Down 14 pounds this month! Also incorporating JUDDD with 500 calories or less on alternate days.

poonamsonii wrote: »

Tubbs216 wrote: »

poonamsonii wrote: »

RodaRose wrote: »

poonamsonii wrote: »

Mr_Knight wrote: »

poonamsonii wrote: »

Is it necessary to eat every 2 or 3 hours..to loose fat...anybody here who lost fat witjout eating every 2 or 3 hours...

No, it's not necessary. How could it be when people who have literally nothing to eat end up looking so skinny?

Ya but then they say u store fats...

Some people eat once a day and lose weight.
As long as you eat less food than you used to eat, you will lose weight.

Your body stores fat when you eat over your calorie limit.
It does not care when you eat because is working for you twenty-four/seven.

Ya but i do only dairy rich teas and coffess whole day and eat only at night...then too i m noy loosing any weiggt..i alsso do weight trainjng

What are you putting in those 'dairy rich' beverages? Plain milk? Condensed milk? Any other kind of sugar? Those calories can really add up and could destroy your deficit if you're eating a lot in the evening as well.

yes full fat milk and sugar

Ok, so say you're adding roughly 1/4 cup milk and 3tsp sugar to each of your cups of tea - that's around 90 calories, which doesn't sound that much, but if you're drinking a lot of them throughout the day...
Do you measure and log all those drinks? Fit them into your calorie allowance?

Total myth. Calories in = Calories out.

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