Are you hitting a plateau???

This entire debate isn't really about what you said works or not. It does. The issue is "how you justify it." I think you said "eating 6 times a day speeds up your metabolism." What saddens me is people are usually just puppets believe anything they hear and go by that. Phrases that I don’t like at all “People say _____________” i.e. “People say if you eat x you’ll get y results.” WHO IS “THEY?!?!?!?!” the media??? The media is the most inaccurate BS thing there is in health and nutrition. People tend to lean towards one method or another just because it “sounds good.” I remember when I used to believe “eating 6 times a day speeds up your metabolism.” It was all over webpages, magazines, fitness articles etc.. guess what? It’s complete BS. The logic is SO simple that it’s just stupid people would believe that. As you say your RMR is 2100 calories a day, so if you lay in bed all day and eat 2100 calories a day you would be in homeostasis(not gaining or losing weight). Does it really matter if you eat your calories 6 times a day or once a day if your calories = 2100 calories a day? Makes NO DIFFERENCE at all. Here are the facts:

Fat = 90% absorption rate
Carbs = 80% absorption rate
Proteins = 70% absorption rate.

What this means if you eat 1000 calories of carbs 800 calories will go to your body 200 would go to energy(burning calories) for digestion. So it’s like you’re really consuming 800 calories. If you don’t eat 1000 calories at all, you’ll be better off. I rather burn 1000 calories then gaining 800 calories. Eating triggers the parasympathetic nervous system, as I said before, the parasympathetic nervous system slows down the body, making you groggy, and tired. Of course this won’t happen to a great degree if you eat just a little bit, but this doesn’t mean “it doesn’t happen.” What is the mid day crash in work environments? It’s the parasympathic nervous system in action, notice how it happens right after lunch.

Always look to primal human behaviors for answers. You think Neanderthal man would eat constantly? They would eat when food was available and not eat when it wasn’t available. They would go on a hunt(during the day) then eat their kill in the evening. Why you think most social gatherings are around dinner time, that image of people around a camp fire at night having a good meal and having a nice time? It’s because all the association with food in the evening. This association didn’t fall out of the sky. Dinner is a time for social gathering, and eating. Breakfast and lunch aren’t seen that way. As humans developed food became more abundant. You think Neanderthal man would wake up and throw a big steak on the camp fire? Haha no.

I know someone will mention carbohydrates for breakfast. Heart disease started to arise in humans when agriculture was developed. When carbs started to be man made is when heart disease showed it’s face. They didn’t have “bread and pasta’s trees” Once you sway away from what is “natural” you’re putting yourself at risk. I know you have your fear’s of fat we have talked about it before. Another great rumor spread by the media is that cholesterol is bad for us. All hormones run on cholesterol. Anabolic steroids are based around a cholesterol molecule. This can “imply” it helps build muscle mass too. Heart disease is the carbohydrates scaring the arteries, this allows cholesterol to stick to the arteries. If there was no scaring there would be no clogged arteries. Yet for decades we where lead to believe cholesterol is this evil thing, same goes for fat. Where did all this bs come from? Of course the media and word of mouth. There is so much bs in the health and fitness industry, the point is, don’t believe everything you read and pass it as facts. I am not even asking anyone to believe what I am writing. Go do your own “scientific” research, read REAL studies. Not some stupid website. I even see highly inaccurate information from the Head nutritionist at the mayo clinic. Many people are just brain washed.

Going to address 3 things here...

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"Starving yourself in certain points of the day makes your body preserve its fat stores and you get sluggish. Knowing how many cals you burn in a day and what time of the day you go past your BMR's cal burn will enable you to eat to fuel up thru the day. Break your day down into sections before you eat 6X a day. Breakfast, Snack, Lunch, Snack, Dinner and Snack. This keeps the body burning and never in starvation mode."
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Eating increases insulin, you know what insulin does? If your muscles are full of glycogen it will convert the carbs to fat. Eating keeps your body STORING, not burning.

also please back up that meals of identical macronutrient composition but clean vs unclean foods, the clean foods will increase fat loss.

Just want to verify you're not being sarcastic. You're really saying eating clean food aids in fat loss compared to processed foods?

[this is to everyone else who is reading this]
There was a study i read today on diet soda. A food that has 0 calories, has been linked to bigger waist lines, and high risk for diabeties. There are more then what we know to this calorie thing. This goes back to the acid thing I talk about I believe. I just read another study right now where a tooth was put in soda for 48 hours it lost 5% of it's mass. This is due to the acid I believe. Soda has a pH of around 2.5. Use common sense to see the link between acid (diet soda 0 calories) and weight gain and risk for diabeties.

Antonio, you need a grammar lesson too.

bump. Alkion, No she is my mother. It looks like I have two dads. You and the ripped dude.

Awww I wanna be apart of the mfp family

Thank you, just what I needed to read!