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Getting five meals a day?
noir_blood
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So I read the fitness thread, and it talks about getting five or six small meals a day, with breakfast being the biggest one. I'm trying to figure out how to do that, and the type of meals I should pack.
Right now, I only have three meals.
Breakfast- Usually cereal or eggs.
Lunch- This is my biggest meal, which I'm realizing is wrong. I usually eat around 1-2pm, and it tends to be whatever I can cook up. Sometimes it's just a sandwhich
Dinner- I take a salad to work, end up eating it at usually 8:30 pm.
So I look to you, Help and Advice to give me examples of what you have eaten, as well as quick(cheap would help) recipes.
Right now, I only have three meals.
Breakfast- Usually cereal or eggs.
Lunch- This is my biggest meal, which I'm realizing is wrong. I usually eat around 1-2pm, and it tends to be whatever I can cook up. Sometimes it's just a sandwhich
Dinner- I take a salad to work, end up eating it at usually 8:30 pm.
So I look to you, Help and Advice to give me examples of what you have eaten, as well as quick(cheap would help) recipes.
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That's 1800 calories. For a considerable amount of the population, this is barely able to sustain life. Do you follow this lifestyle or have experience with it? If not please don't post, your suggsetions are potentially dangerous. A small piece of cheese is not a meal.
Try doing three days worth of chicken at a time and keeping them in tupperware. Throw some brown rice in and that's a good lunch. For snacks you can't go wrong with a protein bar or shake.
Meals could be eaten in any order, as long as Meal 1 was first and Meal 7 was last.
Meal 1
6 whole omega-3 eggs
1 Medium Naval Orange
1 Organic Fuji Apple
Meal 2
Micellar Casein based protein powder, 1 scoop
1 tblsp natural peanut butter
Meal 3
200g (8oz) lean chicken, lean turkey, or wild salmon (NOT farm raised!)
1/2 cup Macademia nuts, almonds, or cashews (NOT roasted - plain, unsalted and raw)
1/2 cup rice (white, brown, doesn't matter)
Meal 4
Micellar Casein based protein powder, 1 scoop
1 tblsp natural almond or cashew butter
Meal 5
200g (8oz) fresh, grass-fed red meat (I usually eat buffalo, but a good sirloin works, too)
1 cup pineapple
Meal 6
Micellar Casein based protein powder, 1 scoop
1 tblsp extra virgin olive or Macademia nut oil
1 Medium Naval Orange
Meal 7, to be taken right before bedtime
3 whole omega-3 eggs
1 tblsp natural peanut butter
Also, water with every meal, and I went through a container of Naked Juice Green Machine every 8 - 10 days.
The hardest part is getting into a routine. After two weeks or so, you feel off if you miss a meal or eat something different, so just stick with it and you'll be fine.
27 May 2008
The study found no difference in weight, waist measurement, body fatness or blood sugar levels between people who ate three meals a day, and those who ate three meals and three snacks while trying to lose weight.
'There seems to be little benefit to changing how often or how regularly you eat if you're trying to lose weight. Many people find it hard enough to stick to a healthy eating plan to lose weight, let alone worrying about any suggested benefits of snacking or not snacking.
'It's not when you eat that matters, but what and how much you eat,' said lead author and Accredited Practising Dietitian Michelle Palmer.
Ms Palmer will present her findings at the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) national conference at the Gold Coast this week.
The study involved 179 obese men and women who were all on a standard kilojoule-reduced diet, but with differing eating patterns.
According to Australia's last national nutrition survey, around 56 per cent of adults report to eat between twice to four times a day, while 37 per cent eat five to seven times daily.
Ms Palmer said dieters need to focus on eating fewer kilojoules, especially when it came to snack choices, and that portion control was the key.
'A 60g chocolate bar has as many kilojoules as four medium apples, the kilojoules in a large muffin are equal to four cups of carrot sticks, and a 50g packet of potato crisps has the same kilojoules as nine cups of air-popped popcorn.
'Manufactured snack foods can be high in saturated fat, salt, sugar and kilojoules, but low in nutrients like vitamins and minerals, and fibre - which keeps us full,' said Ms Palmer. Ms Palmer recommends planning snacks with small portions in mind. And she said time-pressed nibblers should consider nutritious, quick and filling snacks like raisin toast or crumpets, a handful of unsalted nuts, crackers with low-fat cheese, a tub of yogurt or a piece of fruit, or a bowl of cereal with reduced-fat milk.
The DAA 26th national conference will be held from May 29 - 31 at Conrad Jupiters at the Gold Coast. The conference is titled 'Improving nutrition - a social responsibility'.
I don't think he meant EACH of the six meals should be 300 calories. I think it meant the snacks around whatever main meals he eats should be smaller in portion.
Eating a reduced calorie diet five or six meals a day isn’t how it works. The point of eating more meals is to spread calories out to keep the body from converting them to fat inbetween meals. Doing it with a slashed calorie intake still starves the body. That study is crap.
edit: and to the OP—try lightly salted peanuts, fruits, crispy veggies, and anything else that’s easy to prepare in bulk and just eat measured amounts of. Mixing an apple/banana and a protein shake or peanuts/almonds is an easy small meal.
Isn't that nice, someone brings in a researched study and you dismiss it entirely because you don't agree with it. You do realize it takes longer than the time between meals for the body to convert it to fat?
5 meals a day is impractical and ineffective as a mechanism to lose weight.
1. Eating smaller portions keeps your body from turning excess calories into fat.
2. Eating protein more frequently during the day keeps your metabolism high.
Yeah, if your frequent eating involves eating ice cream *6* times a day and not just 3, then yeah, it's not going to help much. They still need to be balanced meals with protein, carbs, fiber, healthy fats, etc.
What exercise are you doing?
http://www.google.com/search?q=reduced+meal+frequency+study
No it isn't. The vast majority of people who make significant changes to their body composition do so with multiple meals a day. You know not of what you speak.
Tube is right. Being an ectomorph with a fast metabolism, I could never have gained as much muscle as I have without having 6 - 7 "meals" a day.
Shrinking your main meals a bit and adding a morning and afternoon snack to tide you over should be enough for starting off. Its not quite the full whatever, but its more practical. Also, drink more fluids, non-sugary ones. Staying hydrated wards off false hunger pangs.
A small piece of cheese and an apple is also not 300 calories, which I think is the more worrying part of that post (1800 is my normal intake, and I'm doing fine on it, but it'd be no good for a bloke). Unless apples overseas are a foot in diameter, both of those suggestions would barely crack 100 calories by themselves. They'd also have a fairly hefty proportion of fats and sugars, although at least they're fresh.
Now, I'll grant that I'm not gaining muscle very fast, but at least I'm not picking up anything gross along the way.
If you're looking for easy meals, pack a protein shake with you to work - doesn't get much easier than that.