How Many Meals A Day Do You Eat?

[Kasper]

I was wondering, what do you guys think about how many meals a day to eat?

I used to do around 3 meals, + some carrots as snack in between. I'm now experimenting with more, 5-6 meals a day. Basically, eating every 3 hours. What do you guys prefer?

 

[Sucrates]

I'll eat 3 meals, 3 fruit and dairy snacks and have an ice cream supper.

 

[tara]

Three to four meals (always with carbs and protein, usu. incl some cooked starch lately, usu. some fat but not loads), lots of snacking in between.
Used to do 6-7 meals a day pre-Peat.

 

[CrystalClear]

I voted 6 meals but that includes snacks to regulate blood sugar throughout the day and evening.

 

[yerrag]

I eat 3 meals a day, but it's more for social reasons than anything. If I eat only because I feel hungry, I may just be eating twice a day.

 

[Jason]

3, big breakfast, small lunch, big dinner

 

[TheHound]

like 8

 

[Brothers keeper]

3 squares with protein, carb and fats and, depending in how late I eat dinner, a bedtime snack...I always eat at least some honey(1Tb) before bed. IF I wake up early(and I do so much less now since I've ditched the drown-yourself-in-1/2 your body weight-in ounces-water doctrine), I keep 1 c of OJ with 2 Tb collagen hydrosolate in it, and 1 oz of cheese by my bed in case I can't fall asleep again quickly. I rarely need it anymore.

 

[Ahanu]

06:15 breakfast
09:00 2nd breakfast
12:00 Lunch
Snack in the afternoon
20:00 Dinner

More Snacks on Sport days
I Love eating :)

 

[Elephanto]

I started eating like bodybuilders do to maximize protein usage for muscle synthesis, which is basically every 3/3.5 hours and 30g of protein every meal. Coincidentally I found this was the schedule that made me feel the best, for satiety and never reaching low blood sugar, but it's always extremely-easy to digest food whereas if I ate starches I wouldn't want to eat every 3 hours. How many meals I eat also depends on what I do or how calm I am. I find that I spend my sugar reserves much faster when I am excited, dopaminergic or stressed. That's why some people that meditate or are very inactive can eat much less, and as Peat wrote, a playful walk in the woods makes you spend more calories than if you were just treadmilling, so the brain is probably our hungriest organ. When I work, I'll also sip on sodas between meals because I want to maximize my performance and minimize stress for the whole shift.

It's hard to reach the Peat-recommended amount of protein (100-150g) and only eat 2-3 meals, and in many functions of protein it seems to be a waste.

Study on this here. 30g of protein in one sitting maximizes muscle synthesis, more protein doesn't synthesizes more.
Limit protein to 20g per meal?

 

[Maretch]

I always tried to eat 5 times a day, but there are some days when i'm so busy that i eat once or twice a day, i know it's bad but it happens..