Meal frequency

[PristineSkies]

How many meals do you have in a day and how many meals do you think one should have in a day?

 

[WileyCoyote]

I don't have a set amount of meals. I eat whenever I feel hungry. This could be three times a day or one.

 

[kittysbecute]

I don't have a set amount of meals. I eat whenever I feel hungry. This could be three times a day or one.

me too

 

[mina]

when i'm working i try to eat 3 main meals and a snack or two- b/c there are only certain times i can eat at work or before work. When i' m off of work i eat when i get hungry.

 

[Thunder Peel]

I typically eat one or two meals a day but rarely more than that.

 

[Blank123]

usually about two meals a day with a couple of small snacks thrown in whenever i feel like i need to eat.

 

[PristineSkies]

I have it 4 times - morning breakfast, lunch, evening breakfast, & very light dinner.
I don't eat between meals.

 

[JonMiller]

I would like to do 5, I have been doing more like 3 the last 4 months.

JM

 

[Apollo Celestio]

Lunch is the only structured thing, really.

 

[Windmill]

I have 3 structured meals a day.

 

[Tinkerbell33]

I have 3 meals a day with snacks inbetween. I have heard that 5 small meals a day is the best way to go.

 

[Bellicus]

I usually just wait till dinner and then also eat some more of the dinner meal later in the evening, or some bread. So 2.

 

[Tinkerbell33]

Do you call lunch "dinner"?

 

[Bellicus]

Do you call lunch "dinner"?

I still call it dinner, cause it is a big meal, but I guess I eat it for lunch sometimes.

 

[Tinkerbell33]

Oh right.

Well I call my midday meal "lunch" and my evening meal "dinner" but some people in the UK call their midday meal "dinner" and their evening meal "tea". Of course, my way is the right way.

 

[radhead]

Breakfast. Lunch. Supper.

I eat 3 meals a day with snacks in between. It's better to have a larger breakfast, rather than more food later in the day, unless you can exercise after supper.

 

[Waitzkin]

If you can call "fast food" a meal, I usually have 2.

 

[Manda_24]

I usually eat 2 meals a day, I'm not a big breakfast person at all. During the summer meal frequencies tend to be more like once a day. I get to work from 10:00 am to about 8:00 pm, sometimes later. I eat lunch around 3:00 and I'm too busy to eat supper and usually not all that hungry when I get home, or I don't feel like making anything and just grab a little snack or something.

 

[GoodNewsJournalist]

Advice to the majority of people who have only two meals a day. YOu're messing up your metabolism greatly. Our bodies slow down processing food if we wait more than 2-3 hours between meals, which means we will retain it much more.

You should have at least 3 meals a day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner - that way you have something to eat probably every 4-5 hours, which is way better than probably lunch and dinner, which is probably 6 hours a part of you.

My meal schedule is, breakfast at 9-10 am - bagel and cream cheese with coffee. Noon-1 pm, a cup of soup and a sandwhich - usually tuna because its brain food. At about 4-5 pm, I excercise and then after I eat vegetables and dip. At 6-7 pm, dinner. Then at 9 pm, I eat some cereal.

Doing that, I lost 23 pounds in 6 months, and I have kept it all off since August.

Your body is the temple of the holy spirit, and temples need maintenance. Start treating your temple better people.

 

[Blank123]

I have 3 meals a day with snacks inbetween. I have heard that 5 small meals a day is the best way to go.

it really is and i'm trying to figure out a way to schedule that as part of my routine but unfortunately life isn't very cooperative. i don't have a regular work schedule so some days five small meals really wouldn't be do-able lol