three, but mostly two and a snack
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How many meals do you eat a day?
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i dont believe its natural, with respect to our evolutionary history, to eat at fixed times, or with a fixed number of sessions. depending on my athletic endeavors at the current time of year, all i can say is "i eat when my body says to eat"
i also am a very active person
when im not really focused on athletic things, i may purposely not eat for some days, or purposely eat very low amounts of calories. when im trying to spend a short time adding a few pounds, i might eat an inordinate amount of protein at times when my stomach isnt already telling me to do so. that being said, most of my daily caloric intake is seemingly at random. i do the ritualistic dinner meal thing with my life partner in the evenings, but outside of that "meal," the way i eat cant really be recognized as any formal structure.
all that being said, id argue that its a bit awkward, and therefore harmful in the long run (to the overall vitality of the digestive system) to eat exact amounts of food the same every day, to have exact fixed times for eating, and to have a preplanned number of meals. our bodies simply arent adapted, for the long haul, for that sort of rhythm.
i imagine that, with each decade of my life, ill start to regulate my caloric intake a bit more, to a degree that i fast once a week, and consume far less protein (im not convinced the human body requires complex carbs at all).
i also am a very active person
when im not really focused on athletic things, i may purposely not eat for some days, or purposely eat very low amounts of calories. when im trying to spend a short time adding a few pounds, i might eat an inordinate amount of protein at times when my stomach isnt already telling me to do so. that being said, most of my daily caloric intake is seemingly at random. i do the ritualistic dinner meal thing with my life partner in the evenings, but outside of that "meal," the way i eat cant really be recognized as any formal structure.
all that being said, id argue that its a bit awkward, and therefore harmful in the long run (to the overall vitality of the digestive system) to eat exact amounts of food the same every day, to have exact fixed times for eating, and to have a preplanned number of meals. our bodies simply arent adapted, for the long haul, for that sort of rhythm.
i imagine that, with each decade of my life, ill start to regulate my caloric intake a bit more, to a degree that i fast once a week, and consume far less protein (im not convinced the human body requires complex carbs at all).
Bob Loblaw
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I typically eat 3 meals a day & a snack after work before bed. Sometimes, like when I'm trying to bulk, I eat more. Sometimes I eat less. It also depends on the drugs I've been taking.
malakaix
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Yeah i've found the same.
I eat roughly 6 meals a day but i've increased the calorie intake.. to put on weight, my metabolism is too fast to just eat at maintenance levels and workout. I look far to thin at 5'8 160 pounds.
Polluted_Mind
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I've never understood this claim and find it a bit bizarre. You can change your total metabolism by exercise, but your basal metabolic rate is for all intensive purposes static, and changing your eating times and amounts isn't going to make any difference. Your body will use energy when it needs energy, and it doesn't really matter if it's from regular meals, rare meals, or failing that glycogen/lipid stores. The only thing that will determine your BMR is genetics, age, gender, height, etc.
The irony is that if you wanted to increase your total metabolism (would only ever change by a small amount by changing diet) you would eat extremely fatty or high protein foods which take more energy to digest.
