does it matter when i eat my calories?

Kind of.

Basically if you eat lots of little meals, it keeps your blood sugar from spiking. If you eat a really big meal, it makes your blood sugar level skyrocket, which causes your body to release insulin. Insulin brings the blood sugar level down, keeping you from going into a diabetic coma and storing the excess as glycogen and fat. It also stops your body from burning fat as an energy source.

Likewise, when insulin is absent or low (as it would be with a low blood sugar level) your body uses fat as a fuel source.

That's why diabetics need insulin injections when their body stops producing it. Blood sugar levels skyrocket, and there's no way to get rid of the excess. So they become unconscious because the body can no longer sustain itself.

It really is better to eat small meals. If that isn't possible, eat an even amount at each of your meals, or smaller meals as the day progresses (biggest meal in the morning to smallest meal in the evening).

Exactly what he said!:bigsmile:

It's easier for your body to burn little meals instead of big meals. More gets used of fuel instead of stored away or making the body work to hard.

In the end it is calories in and calories out though.

Anne