Three large meals or continuous, smaller meals?

[Vince S.]

Do you eat three large meals a day, or eat smaller meals and snacks continuously?

I do the three (sometimes two) meals a day, but I'm trying to transition over to continuous, small meals for a couple of reasons. I get clinically low blood sugar easily, so skipping a meal has bad repercussions for me. Furthermore, I find that with college life and working as an EMT, it's difficult to find time to sit down and eat three large meals at around the same time each day.

 

[bassteban]

3 large+near-constant snacking for me. I used to be able to do this, but at 44 I'm starting to lose my girlish figure.

 

[Atoz]

Definitely numerous smaller meals. Keeps blood sugar levels more constant, and it's better for keeping weight off. I'm about the same age as bassteban, and if I ate just a couple of big meals a day, I'd be a bigger tub of goo than I already am.

 

[gold_member_321]

I usually eat a normal sized breakfast in the morning, then eat a large meal around 2 or 3 in the afternoon, and then just snack the rest of the day.

 

[MatticusMania]

I generally eat a small meal for lunch and a moderate dinner with some light snacking throughout the day.
I know breakfast is the most important thing (of the things you eat) but I just can't seem to stomach food before 11am without feeling sick.

 

[Eric Perry]

I eat like once a day. It's a main reason I'm a fat bastid. That, and beer.

 

[gold_member_321]

That, and beer.

Amen, to that.

 

[jrthebassguy]

That, and beer.

Before I turned 21, I weighed about 140 pounds. Now at age 22 I'm at around 155. Yikes.

 

[Eric Perry]

Before I turned 21, I weighed about 140 pounds. Now at age 22 I'm at around 155. Yikes.

And at age 35, I'm..... lots more than that! :scowl:

 

[iamlowsound]

Before I turned 21, I weighed about 140 pounds. Now at age 22 I'm at around 155. Yikes.

At 18 I was 130lbs, now at 20 I am 175, although that it mostly muscle. I eat four meals a day. One around 9:30 or 10, one at 1 one at 6 and another small one around 9. I eat around 3000 calories a day, most people would put on weight like crazy, but I stay around the same. I do physical labour all day so I am constantly burning it.

lowsound

 

[Scarlet Fire]

I only have time to eat twice a day...

 

[steve21]

That, and beer.

It's funny, I can notice losing weight everywhere except the beer gut.


Sucks!

 

[Gubna]

trying to move to smaller meals during the day, but I'm also doing smoothies for breakfast
and every three days - liquids only. (soups, smoothies, lots of juice, water.)

 

[eedre]

One huuuuuge meal, preferable around 2-3pm. Like a snake.

 

[JimB52]

Two or three small meals, and lots of snacking.

 

[Deluge Of Sound]

I only have time to eat twice a day...

Yeah, twice is a good day. Bowl of cereal in the AM, sandwich at night. Sometimes just the sandwich, but that's how you get by paying $10 a week for food.

 

[Honk'n_down-low]

Do you eat three large meals a day, or eat smaller meals and snacks continuously?

YES : )

 

[benthughes]

I normally eat a pretty good breakfast and a large dinner. I prefer to snack throughout the day, a couple bites here and there...... and there, and there and there.

 

[spade2you]

I generally eat many small things throughout the day. One thing that really seemed to improve was my GERD.

 

[Pdthelefty]

I try to eat smaller meals through out the day. Unless its thanksgiving, but that's a given.